{"id":40583,"date":"2004-02-17T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-17T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2004\/02\/17\/the-social-skills-of-a-thermonuclear-device\/"},"modified":"2004-02-17T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-02-17T07:00:00","slug":"the-social-skills-of-a-thermonuclear-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20040217-00\/?p=40583","title":{"rendered":"The social skills of a thermonuclear device"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kuro5hin.org\/comments\/2004\/2\/15\/71552\/7795?pid=79#88\"> Somebody@somewhere.else described me as having the social skills of a thermonuclear device<\/a>. I don&#8217;t remember the incident in question, but I&#8217;ll have to accept that it happened.\n I have a very low tolerance for laziness. If you come to me for help, I expect you to have done your homework. (Though I try to scale my expectations to your position. If you&#8217;re in a coding position then you had better know how to use a debugger. If you&#8217;re in a testing position, then you had better know at least how to install the debugger. This is considered part of the standard skill set for a tester.)<\/p>\n<p> But the absolute worst thing you can do is start a conversation by saying, &#8220;Hey, Raymond, since you know everything, can you do this for me&#8230;?&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody@somewhere.else described me as having the social skills of a thermonuclear device. I don&#8217;t remember the incident in question, but I&#8217;ll have to accept that it happened. I have a very low tolerance for laziness. If you come to me for help, I expect you to have done your homework. (Though I try to scale [&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":[103,106],"class_list":["post-40583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer","tag-the-social-skills-of-a-thermonuclear-device"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Somebody@somewhere.else described me as having the social skills of a thermonuclear device. I don&#8217;t remember the incident in question, but I&#8217;ll have to accept that it happened. I have a very low tolerance for laziness. If you come to me for help, I expect you to have done your homework. (Though I try to scale [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40583","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=40583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40583\/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=40583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}