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Subject:Re: the Hadoop comic From:Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:17:31 -0800
Back in the early 90's I prepared a mostly-wordless manga-like operations
card for a semiconductor processing system that walked Japanese factory
floor workers through the process of inserting a substrate cartridge into
an airlock chamber and starting the system (they just had to insert the
cartridge correctly and push two or three buttons in the right order), It
was quite well received at the time, but the company has been acquired
several times since I left and I no longer have contacts there, so I have
no idea if they're still using the idea today.
Gene Kim-Eng
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Lee Fisher <blibbet -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> Maneesh's comic has been quite popular.
>
> I've shown it to some people who didn't know about Hadoop before they read
> it, and the comic was quite effective at being teaching the topic. It would
> have been much more difficult to get them to learn about Hadoop, otherwise.
> :-)
>
> Maybe all technical software products should ship with a comic. :-)
>
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