The important part of what he said was "providing the output that you get in the terminal". Simply stating "I got an error" and expecting the developer(s) to use clairvoyance to glean further detail is far from a helpful way to report a problem. Perhaps dropping the details in a pastebin site and linking to that would be a possible alternative? Or just including the error message here if it is short enough, though HN shouldn't really be used as a tech support channel.
