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By Bracken King |
July 29th, 2010
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We're often told that it's a poor craftsmen who blames his tools. While that certainly sets up a nice standard of personal responsibility, it can also get in the way of evaluating those tools. It's easy to identify missing functionality in software, but failures in other aspects, such as poorly demonstrating its use, can mistakenly be attributed as the fault of the user. When evaluating your software, leave the accountability behind and hold the software to a higher standard.
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Technology is cooperative
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