Bill Oliver's essay on "just follow instructions".

Roger arelem at bigpond.com
Sat Oct 12 22:18:12 UTC 2013


Apologies for top post but what is the url for Bills essay please?
Roger
> On 10/11/2013 05:10 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:
>> I am referring to Bill Oliver's essay that appeared under the "Fedora =
>> "the darker
>> side of the Internet?"" thread, just recently.
>>
>> I just wanted to say how wonderfully well-expressed this essay was.  It
>> is widely
>> applicable and should be required reading for "gurus" in ever-so-many
>> areas.
>> (There are many contributors to the R-help mailing list to which I
>> subscribe
>> who would benefit from taking this essay to heart.)
>>
>> I hope that Harald Reindl reads it and takes it to heart.  I have no
>> patience
>> with those on this list who slang off at Harald.  He is a brilliant guy
>> and provides
>> a great service to the Fedora community.  But he would be even more
>> useful to
>> the community if he absorbed Bill Oliver's advice.
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> Rolf Turner
> Rolf:  Thanks for pointing out Bill's message. It's something everyone
> should read.
>
> As a graduate student, I was required to teach.  It took a number of
> years to figure it out, but I did figure out why I was a lousy teacher.
>   Everything I did in class reflected the attitude "It's perfectly clear
> to me; what the f***'s wrong with you?"
>



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