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Re:The screen that set off the ballistic missile alert on Sa... by jandrese on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @09:37AM (#16158439)
That's useless then. That's the sort of dialog that trains users to ignore it because it offers no useful information.

There's a post just a short distance down that twitter thread to a simple layout change that would have made it difficult to choose the wrong option by simply categorizing the options properly. But I'm betting that list is autogenerated on a hardcoded template from some goddamn database somewhere in this enterprise app that makes a simple layout change like that a nightmare to implement.

Re:The screen that set off the ballistic missile alert on Sa... by JdeBP on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @10:44AM (#16158962)
Yes. Luca Milan's, mentioned here at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16158252 .

Compare M. Milan's design to the mainframe menu screens I have listed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16158878 .

Re:The screen that set off the ballistic missile alert on Sa... by epicide on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @12:20PM (#16159910)
There is nothing about ncurses that prevents you from implementing the same crappy interface they have.