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by reuven 7y ago
I have a Discourse forum that's open to anyone who registers for the course. I've been helping people there to install Python and Jupyter, as well as an IDE (typically PyCharm) if they want.
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Finding a good hour that (a) fits my schedule and (b) fits the schedule for as many people as possible around the world was... challenging. I apologize for making it early for people on the West Coast, and hope that you can benefit from th
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I definitely talk about mutability in my course. It's super important, I agree!
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Good questions! I'm teaching Python because... well, because I teach Python, and this is my way of helping people who want to learn. I also believe that Python is a good first language for many people. Not everyone, but for a lot of pe
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The course is aimed at people who have never programmed before. There are many participants who have, but they realize that I'm assuming they don't even know what a variable is, or that you need quotes around text to distinguish
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I'm running the course every Friday at 10 a.m. Eastern, in 1-hour segments. Recordings are available to anyone who signs up. So far, it has been lots of fun!
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by reuven 7y ago
So this is what happens when I don't realize that my post on HN has gotten a lot of attention! Yikes... I'm going through the comments now and responding...
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Python for Non-Programmers(pythonfornonprogrammers.com)
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Quarantined Wuhan kids find brilliant way to get out of schoolwork(mashable.com)
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I thoroughly agree. At this point, people around the world are getting testing, treatment, and hospitalization that costs little or nothing. In the US, the health secretary is strongly implying that people will have to pay for vaccines and
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by reuven 7y ago
I've been using Emacs for a very long time, and I do this on a fairly regular basis. I always used macros, but this function wins, hands down. Great job!
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Show HN: Weekly Python Exercise(store.lerner.co.il)
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Hi, all! I created this free, six-hour video course to help people who are going to be interviewing for Python jobs to get used to the types of questions they'll be asked. The course goes through 50 questions, live-coding in the Jupyt
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Show HN: Ace Python Interviews(acepythoninterviews.com)
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Show HN: Ace Python Interviews(store.lerner.co.il)
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I have lots of good memories of FidoNet. I was a teenager with a modem, computer, and lots of curiosity. I had been using BBSes for a few years, but they were all local to me, dialing up to various numbers where I lived (Long Island, New
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by reuven 7y ago
I had a summer internship at HP while I was in college. (I graduated in 1992.) When I graduated, the assumption/expectation was that they would offer me a job. They hesitated, and a manager who was unusually nice to me explained that
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by reuven 7y ago
I started my own consulting business in 1995. I've thus been through two recessions -- in 2000, and then in 2008. In 2000, I had just hired five people to work for me, as I expanded my Web consulting agency. For about a year, we had
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by reuven 7y ago
AWS is a great example of a topic that used to be specific, but has now grown too general to have a great consulting practice. AWS billing, by contrast, is a fantastic topic; I actually know someone who specializes in this, and he's m
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by reuven 7y ago
I've been consulting since 1995, and have been co-hosting the Freelancers Show podcast ( https://devchat.tv/freelancers/ ) for about 5 years now. If I could distill all of the advice I've given (and received) o
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by reuven 7y ago
I'm curious: If WeWork is found to be completely bad/rotten/fraudulent, then what happens? I'm not saying that this is the case. But I'm wondering what sort of impact that would have on thousands of businesses that
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by reuven 7y ago
A 2016 court deposition, in which a woman claimed to have been forced to have sex with Minsky, at Epstein's compound in the Virgin Islands. This was not just Minsky having dinner with the guy in his apartment. Link: https://
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by reuven 7y ago
I did write: > To defend Epstein, or the people who were associated with him, is unacceptable. Sorry, but Epstein's crimes, and the horrible things he did to a lot of people, and the growing web of powerful people involved with thes
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by reuven 7y ago
I did read his e-mail, actually. And what's why I wrote: > To defend Epstein, or the people who were associated with him, is unacceptable. He's defending Minsky, who was indeed an inspirational genius in many ways, for being
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by reuven 7y ago
People seem to be saying a variety of things about RMS: He's a genius, so let him be. He doesn't understand interpersonal communication. He didn't say the things people thought he said. People are too quick to judge. And so
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Show HN: Weekly Python Exercise(store.lerner.co.il)
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by reuven 7y ago
Thanks so much! I remember having to deal with Cyrillic on a project years ago... Unicode has made things so much easier! (And harder.)
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Closed two years ago. Resurrected a few months later. Closed (again, finally) yesterday.
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by reuven 7y ago
It's my great pleasure.
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by reuven 7y ago
Thanks so much for your kind words.

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