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SoDesuKa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-11 12:53 AM
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38. Error-Conducive Software
Software that is conducive to user errors can't be considered good software, especially if the user's errors cause the kinds of catastrophic consequences this one did. When kids use Twitter and they make a mistake, it's no big deal. However, when a Congressman pressed the wrong button sending career-ruinous files out to the internet, it's calamitous. That's bad software.

Doesn't sound like you're particularly forgiving of user mistakes. That was the point of my original post.



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