6 May
2002
6 May
'02
12:26 p.m.
Well, we're talking about the typical college graduate, not one who can read
and write.
more below...
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Duell" <ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 5:11 PM
Subject: Re: APPLEVISION Monitor
We're not talking about time to learn. It's just time to do that matters,
because the average guy won't show up tomorrow anyway. If he does, he won't
remember anything from today anyway.
If I want the job done today, learning in order
to do it better tomorrow does
me no good.
> That may be true, though I have questions about
the relative usefulness of
> *nix, VMS, etc, in the current computing environment. However, until I
can
> rely on being able to take the typical
drug-impaired, femto-brained, at
best
> quasi-literate, high school graduate and setting
him down in front of a
*nix
I am trying to work out why on earth you'd want to employ such a person...
Sometimes that's the best that you can get. Most of the folks you see looking
for work fit that model pretty closely.
box, when he's never even heard of *nix or
VMS or whatever, and reasonably
expect to get at least half-a-day's work out of each day he spends at that
Hmmm... Is it better to have an average of 0.5 days_work/day or to spend
a week (or so) learning the system and then have an average of 2
days_work/day (as would typically happen with an intellegent person using
Unix, VMS, etc)?
I still can't understand why people think that time taken to learn to use
powerful tools is time that's wasted.