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yes, exactly. I think being verbose and more human friendly is a much better way to design a tool than being terse and machine friendly. Ultimately all we're d
by dickeytk 8y ago
yes, exactly. I think being verbose and more human friendly is a much better way to design a tool than being terse and machine friendly.
Ultimately all we're doing is trying to save human time anyways.
- majewsky 8y agoIn practice, "being verbose" is usually the opposite of "human friendly". I much prefer a spot-on one-line error message over dozens of lines of logs with an error somewhere hidden in them. Verbose error messages usually mean that you didn't have time to design succinct ones. Joel Spolsky's timeless advice applies: "Users can’t read anything, and if they could, they wouldn’t want to." https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/26/designing-for-people-who-have-better-things-to-do-with-their-lives/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/26/designing-for-peop...
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