Re: Re:Why I Hate GUI-Centric Docs (Long)

Subject: Re: Re:Why I Hate GUI-Centric Docs (Long)
From: "Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 00:39:51 -0700

How long after that did he have his "heart attack...?"

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message -----
From: "Damien Braniff" <Damien -dot- Braniff -at- asg -dot- com>

> About 5 weeks later he called and said 'You were doing X, weren't you?'.
> It went very quiet and they asked how he knew that - he pointed out that
> he'd designed the system and, after going through it, decided that was
> the only thing they could have been doing to get that particular problem
> and that they'd have saved themselves 5 weeks if they'd told him at the
> start. Fortunately they were paying for the support :-)
>
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