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From: Walter Roberson on 7 Jun 2010 14:17
dpb wrote:

> I don't
> understand why a user of ML would spend any significant amount of time
> at the website routinely, any way, other than at either cssm portal
> (which is better viewed w/ newsreader, anyway) or perhaps an occasional
> search at the FEX. What else is there other than documentation (which
> I'd presume was installed locally and afaik the link to that online is
> the same as that w/ the product)?

Depends what you mean by "locally"... The documentation for the copy of Matlab
I use is installed on a server at work (not on my desktop at work), so that's
not "local" in one sense. When I'm at home, getting access to that server
documentation requires chaining secure tunnels and a remote X display --
faster than dialup, but it can take 5 minutes just to bring up the desktop,
and thus I only light it up in times of special celebration; the rest of the
time I google mathwork's site.

Going to the mathworks site has the advantage of allowing me to search bug
reports; though most of the time I just want access to the documentation.
Also, the mathworks site has the complete toolbox documentation, whereas we
only have 3 toolboxes installed on the fore-mentioned server.
From: dpb on 7 Jun 2010 14:49
Steven Lord wrote:
....
> ... suppose you completed a task that your boss had
> assigned to you, and you presented it to your boss, and he or she said "No,
> this is wrong. Do it over." Wouldn't you want to know what specific
> problems your boss had with your work (or on the flip side, how your boss
> expected the work to be done) so you could focus on fixing those problems or
> meeting those expectations, rather than trying to read his or her mind?
> [After all, as we all know, the Mind Reading Toolbox is not ready yet :]

....

Yes, the "No, not _that_ rock" school of project management. :(

I had a DOE PM for years that was notorious for such generic criticisms
(fortunately, he was the most unusual type that recognized the
characteristic and was able to be flexible when it reared its head).

I once gave him a box of rocks of various size and composition disguised
as a contract deliverable so that he could have multiple ones from which
to choose...Fortunately, he did get a chuckle from it. :)

--
From: sscnekro on 7 Jun 2010 14:54
> So let me ask you directly.

Hi Steven Lord, I sent an e-mail to you. You may please respond by e-mail, too, if you want.
From: sscnekro on 7 Jun 2010 15:07
> I was referring to the actual work that I try to do with MATLAB and other tools. Interesting as it might be, MATLAB is a means, not an end.

Mhmmm, that's true. What are you working on? Which toolboxes do you use? Are you satisfied with them?
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