{"id":38533,"date":"2004-07-07T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-07T07:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2004\/07\/07\/differences-between-managers-and-programmers-part-2\/"},"modified":"2004-07-07T07:01:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-07T07:01:00","slug":"differences-between-managers-and-programmers-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20040707-00\/?p=38533","title":{"rendered":"Differences between managers and programmers, part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are attending a presentation, you can tell whether  the person at the lectern is a manager or a programmer  by looking at their PowerPoint presentation.\n  If it&#8217;s black-and-white, all-text, multimedia-free,  and rarely has more than ten  bullet points on a page, then the presenter is probably  a programmer.\n  If it&#8217;s colorful, with graphics, animation,  and pages crammed with information bordering on illegibility,  then the presenter is probably a manager.<\/p>\n<p>  It&#8217;s fun watching a manager try to rewind their presentation to  a particular page.  As you step over pages, you still have to  sit through the animations, which means that instead of  &#8220;hit space five times&#8221; to go forward five pages, you have to  &#8220;hit space fifteen times, waiting three seconds between each press  of the spacebar&#8221; because each page has three animations  which you must sit through and experience again.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are attending a presentation, you can tell whether the person at the lectern is a manager or a programmer by looking at their PowerPoint presentation. If it&#8217;s black-and-white, all-text, multimedia-free, and rarely has more than ten bullet points on a page, then the presenter is probably a programmer. If it&#8217;s colorful, with graphics, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-38533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>If you are attending a presentation, you can tell whether the person at the lectern is a manager or a programmer by looking at their PowerPoint presentation. If it&#8217;s black-and-white, all-text, multimedia-free, and rarely has more than ten bullet points on a page, then the presenter is probably a programmer. If it&#8217;s colorful, with graphics, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}