I'm a software engineer. It really drives me up the wall when someone who's not an engineer asks for some implementation detail based on some buzzwords that they don't understand. Even worse is having to justify design decisions to people who don't have the background knowledge to understand the implications of their own questions. It's infuriating, and it happens with alarming regularity.
On the other hand, if those same people ask almost the same questions, but clearly motivated by curiousity -- or better yet, a desire to increase their understanding -- I'm happy to prattle on ad nauseum about it, in great detail. The attitude and the motive of the questioner can make all the difference. I think it's fantastic that Grant gives out this kind of information despite considering it to be of little importance compared to other questions that should be focussed on. I put a lot of value on the openness of a company that I purchase things from, and that's one thing that Rivendell does very well. If they were to conceal some details about their products and justify that by saying that we simply ought not to care about those details, that would be fishy. I really like that fact that he told us that we shouldn't care, explained why, and answered the question anyway. --Mike P.S. Grant, if you're still reading this thread: adding 2 to each digit of 525 gets you 747, not 10410. I can't resist picking nits. Maybe they didn't want people to think it was only made for aircraft applications? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
