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From: "Bruce Byfield" <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>
: But I also mean to say that, if you knew nothing about the topic at all,
: you might think that they gave you a good understanding of what was
: being discussed. However, when you look closely, with the software and
: hardware in front of you, you soon see that the writing isn't as clear
: as it seems. Also, while it isn't exactly wrong, it's at a very high
: level of generality, so that the uninitiated could easily come away with
: the wrong ideas about the relations between the parts and how the whole
: worked. I think that this quality explains why the material slipped past
: its reviewers: they obviously didn't validate wha tthe were reviewing
: because it seemed plausible at a moderately superficial level.
:
Sounds like what I encounter in Microsoft documentation, for the most part.
Even in their documents that purport to solve problems online. Makes me shiver
just to think about it.
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