trpotter72

Uncorrelated returns is the key here, not inverse.

>And even in "normal" applications -- where the majority of users are not knowledgable enough to know that their spelling could be to blame -- an error message that's too verbose is still problematic, because many, if not most, non-techy users won't bother reading it!

Assuming users are 'too dumb' or 'smart enough' sounds like a broad generalization that's highly dependent on the tool.

I'm glad we have verbose compiler errors, and I write C++ for a living. Am I too smart for verbose output?

My grandmother can't login in to Facebook, should we forego the error dialogs because she's not going to read them?

I believe that terse error messages have their place, but this article over generalizes and is full of personal preference rather than data driven conclusions.

Seems misleading, the article mentions that Google made it through the agreed upon wait period during which the DOJ could bring up objections, and that that period has ended.