• Ed Wagner (9/26/2016)


    That's the direction I was thinking. It isn't really hiding, but filtering. If I inundated my boss with every little detail of everything that ever happened, he's want to shoot me because I'd drive him crazy. Think along the lines of "Hey, an implicit cast was performed overnight on a 30-row table...we have to find the code, find the developer and have a meeting. Not only would that be getting him involved in things he doesn't want to be involved in or care about, but it's also a gross over-reaction to an event that could be handled with a simple conversation among two people. I wouldn't call this hiding, but rather filtering it appropriately, so I don't know that it meets your standard of hiding information.

    I could shorten that one a bunch. To my boss: Off to beat a developer with this chair. Be right back.

    That's all they would need to know.

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