Speed reading works for extracting general info out of fluffy text (e.g. magazine articles, fiction, etc.) Essentially it works by grabbing key concepts out of the text you skip through and letting your brain organize these concepts on its own.
Unfortunately, dense texts (not only technical) are not really amenable to this.
Besides, you probably want to *understand* information, not just pack it in your brain. Haven't met any shortcuts for this yet.
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I see nothing earthshaking here. Besides, clueless people who buy the cheapest computer available are likely to get themselves into a really big mess ("My computer is broken! What is a backup?").
He is readable and has some interesting approaches. Really, that's all I need from this genre of writing: give me a different way to look at things and info. Doesn't mean that this way is the right one, just being different is enough.
OTOH, I am quite aware that one can produce a huge amount of impressive-sounding text around very little meat. That's one of the problems with Katz, IMHO -- too much fluff, too few ideas.
On the balance, I'd say keep him. If he turns out to be dull and losing, we can always dump him, can't we;-)
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Sure, all procedural languages are similar: if you know C you won't have much trouble picking up C++, Java, Pascal, Modula, Perl, etc.
On the other hand, consider:
Lisp
Prolog
Forth
Smalltalk
Speed reading works for extracting general info out of fluffy text (e.g. magazine articles, fiction, etc.) Essentially it works by grabbing key concepts out of the text you skip through and letting your brain organize these concepts on its own.
Unfortunately, dense texts (not only technical) are not really amenable to this.
Besides, you probably want to *understand* information, not just pack it in your brain. Haven't met any shortcuts for this yet.
I see nothing earthshaking here. Besides, clueless people who buy the cheapest computer available are likely to get themselves into a really big mess ("My computer is broken! What is a backup?").
He is readable and has some interesting approaches. Really, that's all I need from this genre of writing: give me a different way to look at things and info. Doesn't mean that this way is the right one, just being different is enough.
;-)
OTOH, I am quite aware that one can produce a huge amount of impressive-sounding text around very little meat. That's one of the problems with Katz, IMHO -- too much fluff, too few ideas.
On the balance, I'd say keep him. If he turns out to be dull and losing, we can always dump him, can't we