Re: Many many big pills

[RÃdacteur en chef <editorialstandards -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Whole group.    I'm not sure I like GMail's interface.

Looking over another techwriter's shoulder, where he has Outlook open and
is chuckling over this thread, I saw a message from  Brian, where he asks:
"What kind of a product would HAVE such a massive dongle collection."   I
still haven't located that message in my own  Gmail accordioned threaded
inbox.  Meanwhile, Google keeps interrupting me to congratulate itself on
how its new look is such an improvement and aren't I happy?

2012/2/27 Porrello, Leonard <lporrello -at- illumina -dot- com>

>  You sent this to just me. Did you intend to send it to the whole group?**
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> *From:* RÃdacteur en chef [mailto:editorialstandards -at- gmail -dot- com]
> *Sent:* Monday, February 27, 2012 1:45 PM
> *To:* Porrello, Leonard
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> *Subject:* Re: Many many big pills****
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> There are only four or five sensible, predictable things that need ****
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> unlocking, and they are named and color coded. That was not so much ****
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> an issue when the product needed one of each, or even five of each. ****
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> But when the capacity expanded to (and beyond?) 100 little environments, *
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> each with those five things that need unlocking, that became unwieldy to *
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> manage, physically. ****
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> So, as many as five little key/fob thingies for Bob, then another set for
> ****
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> Carol, and for Ted, and for Alice, and 96 of their friends. Each set must
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> be kept separate, at least until it's passed to those service recipients.
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> More likely, the manager will hang onto backup sets, and keep them ****
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> - all neatly labeled and separated - in some sort of escrow, against
> future ****
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> need. Depends what model or scheme the product owner wishes to offer. ****
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> And if somebody is using our product as the basis of a successful ****
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> business, reselling or renting portions, then it won't be long before ****
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> that somebody is running more and more of our product, and therefore ****
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> needing to track and manage more and more (potentially) hundreds ****
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> of sets of the little key/fob thingies. ****
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> I had visions of one flat tray per product unit, with a 10x10 array ****
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> of little compartments, each big enough to hold (say) five of the ****
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> little key/fobby things. The whole tray being just the right dimensions **
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> to slide onto a shelf in an office safe. What size safe, you ask? ****
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> Well there's another problem. ****
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> Or, the groups could be strung on little bead chains and hung on hooks...*
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> and fergawdsake don't kick over the peg-board. ****
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>  </kevin>****
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> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Porrello, Leonard <lporrello -at- illumina -dot- com>
> wrote:****
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> Do the function names follow a sensible, predictable naming convention?***
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