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Subject:Re: a different resume red flag From:"Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Fri, 22 Oct 2004 09:54:39 -0700
IMO that's merely indicative of the lack of user-friendliness
in the tools we're using, not necessarily an indication that
anyone considers tools skills to be of great importance. If
the tools were easier to use, we wouldn't have to spend so
much time asking questions about them. Perhaps we don't
post so much on end-user task analysis because we're all
*that good* at it that we don't need to ask questions... :)
OTOH, if you want to run a count of posts in which people
pontificate on the superiority on various tools choices...
> I have been keep a running tab of posting topics on
> this listserv. My thinking is that people post on
> issues in forefront of their mind. My tally so far:
>
> * Tool question postings: 22,892,901,662
>
> * Formating related postings: 7,324,400,234
>
> * End-user task analysis related postings: 4
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