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• hacker ethic

  the value system espoused by an ill-defined collection of hackers, p…

• instant messaging

  IM; a technique of sending a message: the sender specifies the recipi…

• WebDAV

  WebDAV stands for “Web-based Distributed Authoring and Vers…

• Know Thy User

  a mantra for usability specialists; understand your audience and de…

• procurement decisionmaker

  the person responsible for selecting software to be used in an organi…

• explicit destruction

  a design principle that suggests that anytime information is perman…

• progress indicator

  a display showing how far a time-consuming process has gone. A progre…

• syntax-directed editor

  a text editor, used primarily for writing software, that automatica…