Nobody reads the error messages. Repeat, nobody. They just click Yes or Ok, then report "it doesn't work". Amazingly, a high proportion of programmers also do the same.
Retrain?? Nobody (in my experience) gets retrained when Word/Windows changes because that would cost someone money. Its just there, and things take a bit longer for a few weeks. Projects are late (they always are).
They did do testing - (1) above - because they knew there was a problem that they could repeat. They just tried to pretend it wasn't happening.
... Because we didn't know why this problem kept appearing at 40 minutes, we decided to set a timer. After 40 minutes, we would stop the car and reboot the computer to restore the performance....
They also didn't pick a very good hack because it didn't leave the car in a safe state when the software broke.
Lack of practical experience I'd say. A few more events like that and they'll make decent devs one day.
Everyone loses one hard disk before they learn what backups are for. Its an operating-system independent rite of passage.
Er. And the way you're supposed to work is to put your working stuff into a partition out of harms way, preferably on a separate disk.
And why is "resorting" to Knoppix such a big deal??
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Nobody reads the error messages. Repeat, nobody. They just click Yes or Ok, then report "it doesn't work". Amazingly, a high proportion of programmers also do the same.
Retrain?? Nobody (in my experience) gets retrained when Word/Windows changes because that would cost someone money. Its just there, and things take a bit longer for a few weeks. Projects are late (they always are).
They also didn't pick a very good hack because it didn't leave the car in a safe state when the software broke.
Lack of practical experience I'd say. A few more events like that and they'll make decent devs one day.
Don't fight the platform
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Everyone loses one hard disk before they learn what backups are for. Its an operating-system independent rite of passage. Er. And the way you're supposed to work is to put your working stuff into a partition out of harms way, preferably on a separate disk. And why is "resorting" to Knoppix such a big deal??
... and non-people do not squeak in ingliss?