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> A qualified peer review would (hopefully :) have caught this and other latent issues if an HN commenter did. Would the qualified peer-review necessarily be

> A qualified peer review would (hopefully :) have caught this and other latent issues if an HN commenter did. Would the qualified peer-review necessarily be reading the NodeJS code, or just checking the theoretical soundness of the paper? I'm not so certain about the former...

tptacek 9y ago
You absolutely need both skills.
pbsd 9y ago
Almost certainly not the former, no. At best the code would be "supplementary material", which reviewers are not required to go over.