Re: Constantly Double checking, Any ideas?

[billd]

brentitude – I was taught by a magazine editor – never proof your own work. You have looked at it so many times, to you it looks normal, and any change would seem wrong. That’s why we have editors and proof-readers do that work for us.

So in writing, you can create a draft, save it, sleep on it, come back and edit it 10 times, but until you send it to someone else for proofing, well………….. it’s just going to look fine and normal to your eyes.

Now brentitude before you think yourself an idiot – I could relate to you some code i’ve seen in the past when I used to beta and even alpha test software – worse, for some OS/2 video drivers, some really nasty words were left in the RELEASED versions of those drivers. Markers and comments the coder put into place……… and when viewed with a hex viewer it was obvious how he felt about the software and the requirements to have to do it like he was.

I still do this day wonder – mistake? Didn’t check his work – or, a slip they really didn’t mind if it made it through?

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