[lbo-talk] looking for tech writers in bay area

joanna bujes jbujes at covad.net
Sun Oct 3 00:13:27 PDT 2004


Bill Gates makes a point of underpaying tech writers. You get what you pay for.

Joanna

T Fast wrote:


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>> Somebody's gotta do it, and it should be done well. I finally took
>> the plunge and upgraded my Mac from System 9.x to OS X. It's amazing
>> how much modern software does for you, setting things up with little
>> or no human intervention, with onscreen help written in clear
>> English. You hardly need any documentation. The hardest part is
>> reprogramming your own reflexes - re-learning movements that had
>> become almost instinctual. But there's not much you can do about
>> that. The contrast with the manuals that came with my first computer,
>> a Vector Graphic CP/M thing from 1981 is amazing. That was three
>> looseleaf volumes filled with mimeo'd typescript and incompehensible
>> prose. Thank god you don't have to contend with crap like that anymore.
>>
>> Doug
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> I don't know. I wish I could get comprehensive and comprehensible
> documentation for my os. You pay (if you do) an exorbinant amount for
> xp and get next to useless, although clearly written, documentation.
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