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On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Mike Edenfield wrote: |
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> On 2/5/2009 7:01 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> > no. He is an idiot if he does not read the docs. Simple. Like people who |
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> > don't read the manual to their car or vcr and then complaining if |
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> > something does not work. Idiots. |
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> "They should read the manual" is *not* a valid design goal for a system. |
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> At best, it's a justification or rationalization when outside |
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> constraints force a design to be non-intuitive. |
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> Given the choice between two otherwise equally functional systems (of |
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> any sort -- electronic, mechanical, digital, etc); if one requires me to |
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> spend extensive time reading an instruction manual to use and the other |
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> is designed to be easy to use out of the box -- the "idiot" is the |
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> person wasting their time reading instead of being productive. |
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and not one single complex system is 'idiotproof'. |
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> To use |
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> your own example, I have no problem figuring out how to start my car, |
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> turn on the A/C, tune my radio, and drive to work without reading the |
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> automobile manual. |
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but before you were even allowed to drive a car you had to take lessons and |
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pass a test. |
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> If Gentoo's installer *has* to be difficult because it's the only way to |
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> supply additional benefits or features, that's a perfectly reasonable |
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> argument. If Gentoo's installer is *stuck* being difficult because |
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> there is a lack of resources interested in making it better, that's an |
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> upsetting, but equally reasonable argument. |
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> If Gentoo's installer is difficult *on purpose* just to make Gentoo hard |
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> to use, that's ridiculous. |
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gentoo's installer is EASY if you just read the docs. |
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