Comments by "Keri Szafir" (@KeritechElectronics) on "We used to write good documentation... (w/The Taylor and Amy Show)" video.
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It's wonderful to see you three nerds again, on a different channel! Friendship is magic, or sufficiently advanced technology.
Damn awesome manual. Fraaaaaaaaaaaan-tastic indeed! Makes me wonder how many successful careers it started.
Modern technical writing seems to lack this old style strive to get the knowledge across to different kinds of audience. The realization that we come from various backgrounds, some of us know microelectronics and the inner workings of arithmetic machines while others can barely type, and still making a manual that helps everyone.
While people know how to use the computers without having to learn extensively, there's a downside to this: they don't understand how the computers work on a fundamental level. Same with phones, cars etc. - they have become magic boxes that do their stuff, no questions asked. And when they do a thing that wasn't expected, frustration arises, with no knowledge about the root cause and optimal solution.
Been using Debian for 12 years now... Time flies like a Saturn V back in the day!
14:30 well, that's indeed farfetched a tad. I guess the authors watched Star Trek just a bit too much, haha.
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