RE: Query: Top Ten Things you wish you'd Known...

["Ruhman, Rima" <RRuhman -at- FDIC -dot- gov>]

I don't call this whining...I call it venting. 
Sometimes professional support entails a little chest pounding and
griping...my ears are open...
Anyway, I learn more from the regrets of others than I do from my own
mistakes...
:-)

	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Rice, Michael [SMTP:mrice -at- deltagen -dot- com]
	Sent:	Monday, April 24, 2000 2:44 PM
	To:	TECHWR-L
	Subject:	RE: Query: Top Ten Things you wish you'd Known...

	whine, whine, whine. come on people, you must have better things to
do. This
	list seems more concerned with self-affirming chest pounding and
water
	cooler gripe sessions than with providing professional support. Does
anybody
	else feel this way?

	yours truly,
	michael

	-----Original Message-----
	From: rpl [mailto:rpl -at- iexplain -dot- com]
	Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2000 10:13 PM
	To: TECHWR-L
	Subject: RE: Query: Top Ten Things you wish you'd Known...


	I wish I'd have known better how to fully exploit the ripple-effect
caused
	by SME's choosing to do things like:

	"Hey, let's set up this DAU so that you can only read the resultant
data
	stream in hyper-terminal, no need for a sissy user-interface that
interprets
	the data stream graphically."

	and

	"Hey, why don't we set up these different-colored flashing LED's to
mean
	transmit, receive, logging, transferring data, and not label any of
them."

	and

	"Okay, now that our tech-writer is finished documenting "the beta
version"
	let's change everything around so that the different-colored
flashing LED's
	mean something completely different in the next iteration."

	Now I know better. Long live the SME's' incessant need to improve
stuff. It
	is my bread and butter.



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