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UtterlyBoring.com is produced by Jake Ortman (e-mail, resume), a 30-year-old dad, percussionist, freelance Web designer, consultant and jack-of-all-trades computer geek, living in Bend, Oregon. He created this so that his expensive journalism and technology degree isn't getting totally wasted. In addition to editing this site in his free time, he is the IT Director and Ad Designer at both Sunray and Discover Sunriver. He has LinkedIn, MySpace, Facebook profiles if you're trying to stalk him.
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Has the guy ever heard of using the <br> tag?And if you've ever done any sort of programming you'll appreciate this idiot product manager, too. Posted by Jake on 07/13/06 @ 02:56 PM
Posted in Geekdom, Sad | 6 Comments | Permalink Submit to digg, del.icio.us, reddit, or stumbleupon 6 CommentsDave Goodman said on 07/13/06 @ 05:13 PM:LOL! "Never call a man a fool; borrow from him." Brad said on 07/14/06 @ 08:44 AM: Wow. Techies really think they are the shiznit don't they. That second one isn't a demonstration of idiot manager, but a demonstration of the "there are 10 type of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't" mentality of programmers. The manager wasn't wrong in that those numbers will be misidentified by the public. That was his only point. He wasn't saying that is what those numbers meant, he said what some members of the public might think of those numbers. Scott said on 07/14/06 @ 11:31 AM: Brad: Except that just about EVERY PIECE OF SOFTWARE has the version number located in the same place. That's where you find it. I would find it very frustrating if it wasn't available. Does anyone really look at Internet Explorer and think, "Gosh, it took them 6,000,000 builds to get it right?" (Of course, it's obviously not right anyway.) Dave Goodman said on 07/14/06 @ 11:39 AM: Most customers have no idea what a build is. If they do, then hopefully they know that a build is just a step along the way to a release, perhaps to test a line of code or a new feature. If a company like that thinks so little of its customers, it could still obfuscate the information. Call it version 2.8.448.001 so the customer has no idea what the digits mean, but can still communicate them when asked. Removing the version number altogether is a bad, bad idea. Something you'd expect from a politician. :) Aaron Wormus said on 07/15/06 @ 03:11 AM: There is really no reason why you need to submit users to actual build numbers. Just name every released build after a star and chuck them all in a 2 field database. Problem solved. Foo 2.8 Enterprise Edition FT Pro (Tetra Build) sounds so much better. Customers do think wierd things and it is the marketing people's job to premept their stupidity. Dave Goodman said on 07/15/06 @ 09:16 AM: Whose job is it to educate them? :) Post a comment |
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