On 3/13/07, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
So I guess the terminology is Wikipedia's "geek bias" showing up again... geeks tend to think of things in terms of the "functional perspective", while the outside world is more into power, authority, politics, personalities, and such.
Well, yeah. When you read "Joe Bloggs, an editor at The Times, said...", do you think "wow, that must be an interesting job, I wonder what software he uses", or "he's obviously important, I wonder what he has to say".
Wait. What would *most people* think? :)
Steve, who swore he would drop this topic.