ready-at-hand

They odd thing to me was that, in reading their description of the workflow system, it seemed anything but ready-at-hand.

In any complex system, though, you have to go far beyond ready-at-hand concepts.

Concerning Heidegger I stand in the opposite corner of the room: I liked his later writings more and despite having read him profusely, I'm not able to articulate his thoughts like you did by contrasting present-at-hand with ready-at-hand which however pinpoints very well the divide between analytical and continental thought.

Because an electronic "thing" is never going to be "ready-at-hand", it will forever need a ready-at-hand physical object to give a comforting sense of realness.

The more man-years have gone into taking care of a given server type at a given DC, the more institutional knowledge is ready-at-hand to solve a problem on your machine of that type, and so the fewer issues become emergencies that break out of the "cloud" abstraction to require your attention.

Because an electronic "thing" is never going to be "ready-at-hand", it will forever need a ready-at-hand physical object to give a comforting sense of realness.

The more man-years have gone into taking care of a given server type at a given DC, the more institutional knowledge is ready-at-hand to solve a problem on your machine of that type, and so the fewer issues become emergencies that break out of the "cloud" abstraction to require your attention.