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Software License which discriminates on 'ethical' grounds

I've spent some time reading the common copyleft and permissive software licenses. Is there a license which allows the creator of an application or algorithm to broadly specify who may use/distribute the product based on their own personal…
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Are By-Design "Bugs" a Bad Sign?

Is it a bad sign if users submit bug reports for things that are by design? Does it typically mean that the application is confusing or unclear, or should I just chalk it up to a one-off user mistake unless specifically stated? (I don't actually…
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How can I manage trash users?

I created a system which hopefully will have many users. We are afraid our user database will be filled by "trash users" which take high-demand usernames, or maybe they just register and never come back. I know this is common, I do this myself, as I…
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How does agile work when replacing a working system?

In an ideal Agile world, you quickly build a small, but useful subset of the desired end system, and give it to users. They're excited, because it's useful, they start using it and give feedback. You then work out what to add on to it, build that,…
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How to get out of the support rut and start repaying the technical debt!

I have a "friend". Yes good start I know but honestly this isn't me! Basically he's been working on a successful project for about 4 years now, the difficulty is the technical debt has caught up and he's finding it almost impossible to stop…
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Good references for End User documentation examples and advise

Our in house software has been used for many users and the training department asked us for any tips of end user documentation format. Does any know where can I find good examples of software end user documentation that a training department to use…
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What is the difference between user requirements and system requirements?

From what I've read I believe user requirements are just the system requirements given in lay mans terms, is this correct? I'm specifically referring to the book "Software Engineering" by Ian Sommerville which I am obligated to follow. Given the…
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What are some good End-User Programming solutions you have seen?

End-User Programming is where regular end users, i.e. non-programmers, are able to customize a program, or create a new one, with minimal training or instruction. App Inventor for Android is one recent example, but perhaps the most popular example…
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Providing users with program revision history information?

One limitation of a program that I maintain is that the end-users often don't know what changes have been made. To remedy this I would like to show my users a simplified list of changes made to their program. Is there a good methodology/approach to…
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What are best practices for enterprise software, should a developer be able to login as one of its users? (when its your own company)

My company has its own proprietary software that I have both built and maintained over the last 5 years I am about to release a big change for all of my software to use OAuth2 instead of handling emails and passwords ourselves. Prior to this release…
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How to categorise information in end-user documentation?

One of the greatest piece of documentation I ever read is the TeXbook by Donald Knuth—the manual of the TeX typesetting system, and I used it in my first analysis. As far as I can tell, the type of information conveyed by documentation falls in…
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How to make security usable in a web application?

I'm in the planning stages of developing a web application that I want to make as secure as possible. I'm pretty clear about how to do that from a technical point of view, but there is one massive potential security hole: I want the site to have…
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What should my user object know?

I have an architecture problem/doubt and I'd like some insight on this. Context : We're in a mobile app that solely relies on webservice calls to be used. There can only be one user logged in at any given time and all calls require a user. We're…
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How to get better understanding of the users as a programmer

I work at a company that wants to be agile, but the business analysts often provide us "user stories" that are more solution than problem statement. This makes it difficult to make good design decisions, or in more extreme cases, leaves few design…
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Limit number of users in a web app?

I've been asked to look at converting our traditional client-server software into a web-based version (using PHP). One of the first questions from management was how we'd limit the number of concurrent users, currently handled by our licence manager…
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