Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 09:48:30 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: mcgovern@spoon.beta.com (Brian J. McGovern) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The continuting email... Message-ID: <199701301648.JAA22108@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199701300505.AAA09649@spoon.beta.com> from "Brian J. McGovern" at Jan 30, 97 00:05:43 am
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> >Do you read Dilbert? If it weren't for your other comments, I would have > >to say that you were trained management. You need to lift your eyes a > >little and look at the longer-term benefits of a given exercise. > > There are long term benefits, and there are short term realities. The long > term benefits is that I may get good at this. The short term reality is > that I have a certain length of time to aquire the information to do this. > If the time required is excessive, or unrealistic, it makes a better > choice to either hire someone to do it, or wait for someone else to do > it, and put my energies where not only will I have efficiency, but I'll > have success. I want to add a note here: the place he will probably put his energies is Linux, which has a well documented DDI/DKI. The assumption here is that he is the pet device driver writer for a given hardware vendor, not a FreeBSD fanatic who has decided to dive into writing devices. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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