On time AND existent, it’s another Tuesday PartiallyClips!
This one’s inspired by the day job. I’m a bit worried it’s geared a bit too much toward programmers, but I’m hoping at least a good chunk of you guys and gals will be able to relate to it.
Bit ‘o’ pluggery: Rob recently embarked on a new project – a collaboration with Ben friggin’ Bova (!!!) and Bill Holbrook called “Duel in the Somme.” It’s being released one page at a time over at duelinthesomme.com, with a physical book being released at Intervention in September. It’s six pages in, and so far I’m thoroughly intrigued.
See you guys on Friday!
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I work in the support branch of my company (I’m a fucking people person!), and my position requires frequent contact with our development teams. Working with programmers is always a joy.
Always.
And once again, we have a PartiallyClips with dialog that could fit just as well in xkcd. Not that I’m complaining, of course – I have (apparently) pretty much the same kind of day job. There’s probably a heavy overlap between that factor and “webcomic reader”, anyway. As well as with the TARDIS-aware crowd.
Do I sense a Venn diagram coming on?
Also, this is the second PC comic on the topic of technical writing. Today’s lesson, boys and girls, is to always write to the level of your audience.
Once again MZ? Wow. I guess I’ve got some backlogging to do.
@Spork Haven: Why, thank you!
Apropos of nothing, did you know that one of the benefits of lacking “people skills” is that you can selectively ignore sarcasm?
I think they just forgot to use markup tags.
(Heh. Stinkchunnel.)
Having done both software engineering and technical writing, I laughed out loud at this one, particularly at the punchline. I’m still laughing. Great strip. ..bruce..
Million Zillion, no sarcasm intended.
When I first started working in this company 9 years ago as front line support, dealing with programming sucked royal leaky ass.
As a division manager within support now though, I honestly enjoy working with them. That’s not to infer that a position change caused my dealings with them to be any different, mind you. I ask generally the same types of questions of them now as I did back when I started here. Rather, I’ve come to appreciate what they do and how they view the world and relate to people. Developers are a different breed, and I genuinely enjoy conversing with them about their duties, their lives outside of here, etc.
SH – And apparently reading their webcomics!
Thanks for the kind words, people!
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You may have outgeeked yourself.
I work for the government…I’m hanging this up in the hall, and labelling it “requirements creep.”
Didn’t Rob use that art for at least one strip? It looks familiar.
Perhaps. That’s bound to happen from time to time, though I try a cursory search before I post.
As a professional tech writer, I may well in the future ask if I can use this in a presentation. Maybe something about usability, or simply the horrors unleashed by letting programmers write the documentation.
Hasufin – permission most assuredly granted.
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