Over to our intrepid reader: "I thought this would be an easy task, occupying just a few minutes. If his own web pages are anything to go by, he hasn't even managed the online equivalent of joined-up hand-writing yet.
Another reader made a much more serious allegation, however, claiming this story proved that silicon.com's new chairman had already started interfering in our editorial policy. When we covered this story on Tuesday, one reader posted a comment...
Designers, software developers, writers and photographers with technical skill can all create excellent material but the eye and brain required to pare down to the essentials and match these to the reader, viewer or user is a somewhat different...
I will get on to why this is important - and finish with a challenge to any reader brave enough for some self-examination and honesty - but first let me spell out what I mean by using two great examples.
As an example, Amazon's director of web service software Peter Cohen pointed to the company's A9 search service and its yellow pages feature. But for a computer programmer, this could become the job of a lifetime to automate.
The search and indexing can cover code on web pages as well as code that resides in compressed files, according to Tom Stocky, a product manager at Google. For example, a developer may need to write a function as part of an application and search...