On 3/1/2010 2:24 PM, Bill Fairchild wrote:
The flip side of this coin is that we who build the technical guts of products all too easily can become arrogant. If there weren't dumb end users, we developers would have much smaller incomes.
Several years ago I worked for an ISV whose most valuable employee worked in the Quality Assurance group. She had a knack for trying things none of us had ever thought of, and she was the major reason the software shipped nearly bulletproof.
As to Ted's comments about teachers - my college had this notion that all science and math majors should have some exposure to liberal arts, and made me take a music course, among others. In a report I misspelled primeval, and the professor gave me a B. When I protested, he explained that he expects reports to be written in English, otherwise he couldn't read them and had to award an F.
Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
