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Your radio analogy holds for people who are new to something, but for experts, it's exactly backwards. Using the CLI is often much quicker and easier than the
by wccrawford 15y ago
Your radio analogy holds for people who are new to something, but for experts, it's exactly backwards. Using the CLI is often much quicker and easier than the GUI.
Unless you meant that it's easier to ask someone to play a tape for you, if you've never done it for yourself before... And then I guess it holds both ways.
- seldo 15y agoIt's certainly easier for experts, but that was not his point. His thesis is that the command-line is really easier for everyone, and I just don't think that holds water.
- dhimes 15y agoNot to mention that a poorly designed GUI can also be frustrating. I couldn't get this working on my ipad when I tried: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2809451 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2809451 Nothing was discoverable.
- nraynaud 15y agoStudies where conducted (at Apple I think), experts made more mistakes about vi current edit state than beginners who where constantly checking it visually. Other studies checked experts on GUI stuff, and they where making more mistake with shortcuts and took longer to correct them than by using the mouse all the way. But there was a big problem: when asked they never recognized it and had to be shown the actual numbers to undertand it. Looks like a confirmation bias all the way down.