threehv » people http://www.3hv.co.uk/blog precision engineering for your website Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:18:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Thought for the day: dealing with people http://www.3hv.co.uk/blog/2009/04/21/thought-for-the-day-dealing-with-people/ http://www.3hv.co.uk/blog/2009/04/21/thought-for-the-day-dealing-with-people/#comments Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:59:35 +0000 Rahoul Baruah http://www.3hv.co.uk/blog/2009/04/21/thought-for-the-day-dealing-with-people/ When dealing with people (whether friends, family, customers or suppliers), remember: there is an absolute world of difference between “I think that’s rubbish” and “it is rubbish”.

One is a statement of opinion, the other is likely to get people’s backs up. Words and phrasing are important to people.

It’s why naming in computer science is hard.

It’s why people are better than machines.

]]> http://www.3hv.co.uk/blog/2009/04/21/thought-for-the-day-dealing-with-people/feed/ 3