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Eh, you can't reconcile 'nobody reads all that text on dialog boxes' with 'using names like "Developer Tools" just drives people away who are not interested in being labeled "developers"'. I seriously doubt people care all that much about what menu labels say, as long as they are roughly descriptive. What next, making some menu items pink because women are shown to be less likely to press on them? This way lays madness.

You have a good point about not needing to explain how all that stuff works, because developers are expected to seek out and read documentation and tutorials.

Making tools more accessible in that sense necessarily makes them less powerful, and there is too much dumbing down going on as it is...



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