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  New development library Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2019-04-07 09:25 +1000
    Re: New development library Batchman <batchman@dosville.foo> - 2019-04-07 21:08 +0000
    Re: New development library RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-04-13 18:34 +0000
      Re: New development library Filip454 <filip454.newsgroups@gmail.com> - 2019-04-15 20:36 +0200

#17780 — New development library

One of the biggest bug-bears for any developer is that users come to 
anticipate a particular behaviour from a program. This means that when 
the developer wants to change the behaviour in a future version, they 
need to deal with multiple complaints from users who got used to the 
previous functionality.

To deal with this, I have developed a new library, confuseauser.jar. 
This library allows the developer to specify, for any particular 
operation that the user may perform, a set of possible responses, and 
the library will choose one of them at random. This ensures that the 
user never learns how the application will behave, and consequently that 
they will not object when it changes.

I am fully aware that this technology has already been incorporated into 
multiple aps, but as far as I can tell, no one has patented it, so I 
thought that it made sense to provide a simple interface to the 
developer so that this particular wheel doesn't have to be constantly 
reinvented.

Just a warning, I won't guarantee that future versions of this library 
will do the same thing.

Sylvia.

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#17786

On Sun, 07 Apr 2019 09:25:15 +1000, Sylvia Else wrote:

> To deal with this, I have developed a new library, confuseauser.jar. 
> This library allows the developer to specify, for any particular 
> operation that the user may perform, a set of possible responses, and 
> the library will choose one of them at random. This ensures that the 

Congratulations, wish I had thought of it!

Now you'd better start interviewing lawyers, I think you'll need many.

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#17809

On 2019-04-06, Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> wrote:
> To deal with this, I have developed a new library, confuseauser.jar.
> This library allows the developer to specify, for any particular
> operation that the user may perform, a set of possible responses, and
> the library will choose one of them at random. This ensures that the
> user never learns how the application will behave, and consequently
> that they will not object when it changes.

I fully support this!

The new generation of mobile devices though kind of already does this.
Software you like suddenly insists on updating - or does it
automatically - and things change whether you like it or not.

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#17815

W dniu 2019-04-13 o 20:34, RS Wood pisze:
> On 2019-04-06, Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> wrote:
>> To deal with this, I have developed a new library, confuseauser.jar.
>> This library allows the developer to specify, for any particular
>> operation that the user may perform, a set of possible responses, and
>> the library will choose one of them at random. This ensures that the
>> user never learns how the application will behave, and consequently
>> that they will not object when it changes.
> 
> I fully support this!
> 
> The new generation of mobile devices though kind of already does this.
> Software you like suddenly insists on updating - or does it
> automatically - and things change whether you like it or not.
> 

Auto-update is one of the biggest cancers (well, let's say tumors) of 
our times.

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Filip454
[filip454.newsgroups@gmail.com]

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