The Microsoft Answers "happenings" thread
Jun 12, 2018 19:32:25 GMT -6
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Post by Rick on Jun 12, 2018 19:32:25 GMT -6
General Lack of Brains at Microsoft.
It will be interesting to see how fast Microsoft pulls this one down, but here is the link to the thread for your reading entertainment:
answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/forum/insider_internet-insider_spartan-insiderplat_pc/general-lack-of-brains-at-microsoft/cb4b7934-6022-4d1f-9fa5-bce3f35fc8b4
The Question:
I thought the very first response was a good one.
It will be interesting to see how fast Microsoft pulls this one down, but here is the link to the thread for your reading entertainment:
answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/forum/insider_internet-insider_spartan-insiderplat_pc/general-lack-of-brains-at-microsoft/cb4b7934-6022-4d1f-9fa5-bce3f35fc8b4
The Question:
1.) Edge: Not yet ready for prime time. Until we can organize the favourites, it's useless. Withdraw it. Take it back to your office and work on it. Stop wasting our time with it. We'll put up with Chrome, or Explorer for the Microsoft addicted, until you have something ready to try out.
2.) Free-Cell: Microsoft keeps revising it. Every time they do so it gets slower, louder, and kludgier. It is no longer remotely like a game of solitaire you can click on in spare moments. It's multi-minut load that will advertise itself to the entire office when it eventually shows up.
2.) The Documentation: All the documentation in the Microsoft Universe is dedicated to telling us how lucky we are to have all these opportunities, how many options there are there, and what they have done for us. Document the actual software? Shure. Just let us get the public relations out of the way first. And second. And third. Now then, what was your question?
2.) Free-Cell: Microsoft keeps revising it. Every time they do so it gets slower, louder, and kludgier. It is no longer remotely like a game of solitaire you can click on in spare moments. It's multi-minut load that will advertise itself to the entire office when it eventually shows up.
2.) The Documentation: All the documentation in the Microsoft Universe is dedicated to telling us how lucky we are to have all these opportunities, how many options there are there, and what they have done for us. Document the actual software? Shure. Just let us get the public relations out of the way first. And second. And third. Now then, what was your question?
Albert Szent-Georgi, the guy who got the Nobel for his role in elucidating ascorbic acid as Vitamin C, once said "An IQ difference of thirty points means that one person can solve by inspection a problem which no amount of explanation can even make clear to the other -- and we meet people across three bridges of this size in a normal day."
We see that sort of span with software writers. A guy like Sussman or Stallman will just sit down and write stuff, hundreds, sometimes thousands of lines a day, and it will run nicely and do what it was actually intended to do. Elsewhere NASA will be paying $100 a line because they've got a lot of people who blow up rockets by putting punctuation in the wrong places.
Microsoft clearly has too many people from the bottom two of Szent-Georgi's "bridges," people with degrees in computer science who can write essays about how to write essays -- but have never held a whole coherent idea in mind since the last time they cried for a bottle. Some such people are in charge of too much of the software going out the door.
We see that sort of span with software writers. A guy like Sussman or Stallman will just sit down and write stuff, hundreds, sometimes thousands of lines a day, and it will run nicely and do what it was actually intended to do. Elsewhere NASA will be paying $100 a line because they've got a lot of people who blow up rockets by putting punctuation in the wrong places.
Microsoft clearly has too many people from the bottom two of Szent-Georgi's "bridges," people with degrees in computer science who can write essays about how to write essays -- but have never held a whole coherent idea in mind since the last time they cried for a bottle. Some such people are in charge of too much of the software going out the door.