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Re:The laws of shitty dashboards by coldtea on Monday September 15, 2014 @12:42AM (#8317310)
>It's also a great design because it needs to be highly reliable, and lights are probably the simplest things you can apply power to to generate a notification.

Only that's a BS reason, because you could always have the "simple reliable" light AND a more detailed explanation in a panel next to it.

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Re:The laws of shitty dashboards by jschwartzi on Monday September 15, 2014 @08:09AM (#8318328)
Sure, but you'd still have the light for reliability.
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