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Subject:RE: Query: Top Ten Things you wish you'd Known... From:"Rice, Michael" <mrice -at- deltagen -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L (E-mail)" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 24 Apr 2000 11:44:04 -0700
whine, whine, whine. come on people, you must have better things to do. This
list seems more concerned with self-affirming chest pounding and water
cooler gripe sessions than with providing professional support. Does anybody
else feel this way?
yours truly,
michael
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From: rpl [mailto:rpl -at- iexplain -dot- com]
Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2000 10:13 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: Query: Top Ten Things you wish you'd Known...
I wish I'd have known better how to fully exploit the ripple-effect caused
by SME's choosing to do things like:
"Hey, let's set up this DAU so that you can only read the resultant data
stream in hyper-terminal, no need for a sissy user-interface that interprets
the data stream graphically."
and
"Hey, why don't we set up these different-colored flashing LED's to mean
transmit, receive, logging, transferring data, and not label any of them."
and
"Okay, now that our tech-writer is finished documenting "the beta version"
let's change everything around so that the different-colored flashing LED's
mean something completely different in the next iteration."
Now I know better. Long live the SME's' incessant need to improve stuff. It
is my bread and butter.
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