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User Friendly
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Author: Illiad
List Price: $12.95
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ISBN: 1565926730
Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates (01 September, 1999)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 90,102
Average Customer Rating: 4.19 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 5 out of 5
Hilarious
User Friendly is hilarious. As a long time computer programmer who has spent most of his time dealing with bureaucracies and users, this cartoon strip really hit on target. Techies who have never done anything but program and mess with the operating system may not understand the strip at all. Genuine techies who have to deal with the real world, as well, will be bowled over by it. And those of us who remember punch cards will be even more amused. I don't know how long the author has been around, but I can say that if he's not an old timer, he has at least paid attention to one. An he's pegged the younger techies as well (and they're not all exactly alike), and is on-target for the execs (some good, many not), the administrative staff (have their own world and concerns), the marketing force (I'm sure that somewhere in the world there are decent, competent salesmen; I've just never met one and neither has anyone I know), and the users (I happen to know there are smart, competent users; but tech support almost never hears from them). Additionally, the author nails the noncomputer interests of techies pretty well; Cthulhu, wild science, movies, music, and world domination. The Microsoft bashing is there, but mild compared to many cartoons and correctly represents the view of most techies. Linux tries to please everyone and fails; Microsoft tries to please no one and succeeds. And this cartoon notes both.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Simple enough...
The People who didn't like this book probably didn't understand the jokes. I work in tech support and this whole book is so true.
Whiney people are justs "id10t"s
Rating: 5 out of 5
A Book For Those of Us Who Mystified the School Prog. Class
Have you ever wanted to read a comic strip in which the characters speak in programming code? Or where an artificial intelligence is uploaded to Mir to avoid the office-wige switch to Windows? Or where a man is tortured by having random code from his Linux kernel deleted? Or where an anthropomorphic ball of dust tells jokes and sings computer-oriented versions of Christmas carols and R&B hits? Or where a Califoria-born programmer inexplicably spaks in a Slavic accent? Vell sir, it vill be dune-ski. 'User Friendly' is like Dilbert. Only funny. And for geeks. Absolute brilliance. I cannot recommend this book more highly. Unless you're played multiplayer 'Quake II' for extended periods of time without sleep. Like weeks. Then, I can recommend this book and this series even more highly.
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