Fair enough - I made an assumption you were comparing to Microsoft, you weren't, and I apologize. There are people like you and I who do prefer to understand the WHY when they do something. For me, it helps me learn and remember the HOW better if I understand the WHY.
I wasn't necessarily bashing MS (although to be sure I probably came across that way). What was trying to say is that the majority of end-users (MS's target) don't want to understand the WHY, they just want the HOW. Given a choice, I bet the masses would opt for having an addition table to reference (calculator?) rather than learning to add any two numbers. Those of us who do want the WHY tend to have to dig a little deeper because there's less demand for it.
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Hey, I was gonna say that! That was totally my idea...
"The Hacker's Diet" is another view, with commentary on how to manage what you eat as well:
http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/
It's where the chronotons were.
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Fair enough - I made an assumption you were comparing to Microsoft, you weren't, and I apologize. There are people like you and I who do prefer to understand the WHY when they do something. For me, it helps me learn and remember the HOW better if I understand the WHY.
I wasn't necessarily bashing MS (although to be sure I probably came across that way). What was trying to say is that the majority of end-users (MS's target) don't want to understand the WHY, they just want the HOW. Given a choice, I bet the masses would opt for having an addition table to reference (calculator?) rather than learning to add any two numbers. Those of us who do want the WHY tend to have to dig a little deeper because there's less demand for it.
And Microsoft is infamous for providing in-depth explanations when they explain how to do something to the typical end-user.
Or maybe it's why the industry has settled on calling them HOW-TOs instead of WHY-TOs....