bob_hancock

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   by bob_hancock 14y ago

   Last week, I showed requests to a class of sysadmins to whom I was teaching Python and they were blown away. Great work.
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   by bob_hancock 14y ago

   The O'Reilly Conference Code of Conduct seems to be reasonable. http://oreilly.com/conferences/code-of-conduct.html The first sentence really sets the tone: "At O'Reilly, we assume that most people are intelligent and well-intended, and
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   by bob_hancock 14y ago

   I don't know that free speech is granted to insure that oppression can be defeated or overcome by language, but that is a different discussion. Free speech, as defined by numerous Supreme Court decisions, protects speech that expresses ide
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   by bob_hancock 14y ago

   I was surprised that the code of conduct was all about what you shouldn't do, instead of what was expected of the attendees. Telling adults, "Be careful in the words that you choose." does give the code the Code a patina of Political Correc
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   by bob_hancock 14y ago

   http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.042/spring12/mcs.pdf This is an excellent place to start.