Comment by fenomas
7 years ago
That quotation is prefaced as "lessons I hope to take to heart". He's not commanding everyone to do it.
7 years ago
That quotation is prefaced as "lessons I hope to take to heart". He's not commanding everyone to do it.
Would you agree that talking about unavailable code or libraries is "irritating to talk attendees" and "even more disrespectful towards organizers"?
The author is saying those things about his own talks, not generally of everyone. Unless you're trying to claim they are never true in any case, I don't think there's anything to disagree about here.
I understood that the attendance’s irritarion and the “acceptance of your talk may have been implicitly preconditioned on the attendees being able to benefit from the code/library/project in question" would also apply to someone else’s talks. But I see how the availability aspect could be part of his talk, or is expected because of who he is. If it’s about himself/his talks in particular another option would be to change the expectations.
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