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ribs on Oct 10, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Helping my students overcome command-line bullshit...

Why doesn't he set up a config management server, like puppet or chef or ansible, and have students get set up that way? Or provision some VMs? Or provide some Docker containers?

I have tweeted him thusly.

mcguire on Oct 10, 2014 [–]

Likely because student A's research requires tools X, Y, and Z, while student B's research requires X, L, and M.

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