Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "The Unreasonable Effectiveness Of Plain Text" video.

@marschma It's probably overkill as most people don't need more than italics, bold and different fontsizes. Latex and the like can be incredibly helpful for various technical fields though. Certainly nicer to read than the stuff that was in books from the '70s and '80s when typsetting was being computerized in a rather crude way.
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Not necessarily. I've met people that work at MS and the software works for them, the problem though is that they cheaped out on computers for their testing lab, which means that if there is some sort of a bug found in the wild, there's no way to figure out what's causing it even if they want to. So, the only complicated bugs that get fixed tend to be the ones that come from internal users. The ones from the vast majority of their customers might not even be fixable due to a lack of necessary information about how the issue was caused.
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There's lots of ways of doing it. Requiring that there be a specific reason in order to be allowed to schedule one. Making people stand on one leg while talking. (Obviously, people who can't stand due to disability should probably be given an alternate option. Status meetings serve absolutely no purpose. If you're just reporting status, that can be done without everybody being there at the same time and decent project management system, or a text file, can do that just fine.
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