Jason was an Opensource.com staff member and Red Hatter from 2013 to 2022. This profile contains his work-related articles from that time. Other contributions can be found on his personal account.
Jason was an Opensource.com staff member and Red Hatter from 2013 to 2022. This profile contains his work-related articles from that time. Other contributions can be found on his personal account.
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Great article Seth! Interestingly, I bought a new Risk board a couple of weeks ago and my wife and I played our first game on it this weekend. Neither of us had played in a long time, so we started by reviewing the rules -- and they were awful! Why? Because they start with rules for a completely different "beginners game" which go on for several pages, before finally saying "and the regular game is played in the same way with the following modifications..." Why, if I already knew most of the game rules, should I have to read through several pages of information that doesn't apply to me to be able to pick out the key pieces, and then compare them to a separate set of instructions to see which parts changed? Terrible user experience, and I hope I never have to read software documentation that bad.
That's one approach. Another is to embrace the randomness of such messages. I would consider following a Twitter account made up entirely of people's mistyped terminal commands.