Cargo Cult sysadmining

[jdow]

On 2012/08/07 17:41, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 08/07/2012 05:22 PM, Dave Ihnat wrote:
>> You were lucky.  I'm dead certain he didn't agree, but at least he shut up.
>> It's a lot nastier when they really want to argue.
>
> If he'd tried arguing, I probably would have laughed at him.  After all, I was
> the one using the card and I could point to my own experience as proof that it
> didn't work the way he said it would.  What did he have on his side that might
> have outweighed the facts?

Raw arrogance. The trick is to learn how to feed the developer a debug
dump. That tends to shut them up and get them thinking. (It works on me.)

{^_-}