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Re: STC certification: what's in it for tech writers?
Subject:Re: STC certification: what's in it for tech writers? From:Laura Lemay <lemay -at- lauralemay -dot- com> To:"McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> Date:Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:07:05 -0700
On Oct 26, 2011, at 9:54 AM, McLauchlan, Kevin wrote:
> Thirty-six-hour and longer shifts running on nothing
> but caffeine. Supposed to toughen the minions before
> they can progress, or to weed out the weak ones,
> but it also subjects patients to treatment by
> sleep-deprived, shaky, possibly hallucinating
> junior practitioners, with varying levels of
> competent (and well-rested?) oversight.
...
> Not sure what the equivalent would be in
> apprentice-TW land.
I know the ship date is tomorrow, but I thought the UI looked better with this new widget arrangement and with these new fonts. It was only a two-line change. Also I did a search and replace and renamed all the instances of "database" in the UI to "SQL," because that is more technically accurate. What? Why are you screaming?
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