[Foundation-l] Handholding for new articles (Was: Re: 80% of our projects are failing)

[George Herbert]

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 5:28 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/12/3 David Goodman <dgoodmanny at gmail.com>:
>
>> Nothing personal, but when tl;dr is given as a response, it indicates
>> that there is something certainly substantial and probably interesting
>> to be seen and understood--and possibly even used as the basis for
>> action -- as in this case/.
>
>
> Or it indicates that whoever's trying to make the point needs to write
> more concisely, at least leading with a summary good enough to hook
> the reader into reading the rest.
>
> tl;dr = writer fail.

Reasonable - I was stream-of-consciousness expanding on an idea,
probably should have taken that level of detail offline to wikitech-l
or some such.


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-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com