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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > The Zen of Error Messages
 
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Vulture Culture
Jul 14, 2003

I was never enjoying it. I only eat it for the nutrients.

Longinus00 posted:

Error messages never have to be useful to the user. Be happy you get an error message at all rather than a segfault or something.

Just feel happy you don't have to deal with compiler error messages.
Oh God, no compiler error message is anywhere near as bad as Ruby's super-helpful "unexpected kEND" parser errors that tell you that, somewhere in this 2000-line file, someone forgot to end a control structure somewhere maybe.


mAlfunkti0n posted:

We had one of our users stop by to show us some goofy error she ran into one day .. I cant remember the exact wording, nor can I find it again but it went something like :

"An error has occurred where no error should have occurred"

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Vulture Culture
Jul 14, 2003

I was never enjoying it. I only eat it for the nutrients.

AlphaDog posted:

My friend had a job which involved translating Japanese-English program comments and output into actual-English (that's horribly unclear, I mean that the original Japanese programmers would try to write in English, and then he would have to turn it into actual English, becasue hey, they're programmers not translaters). He said his favorite thing that he saw again and again was the phrase "It is working, but you may be disappointed".
To be fair, the Japanese do have a reputation as being rather small.

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Vulture Culture
Jul 14, 2003

I was never enjoying it. I only eat it for the nutrients.
Someone on Reddit submitted this gem yesterday:
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Vulture Culture
Jul 14, 2003

I was never enjoying it. I only eat it for the nutrients.

pixaal posted:

Wait how is this even possible. Time 0 is the last moment in 1969.
The interesting thing is that UTC didn't exist on January 1, 1970. :420:

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