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  • noun Alternative spelling of use case.

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Examples

  • At £57.50, I think it's pricey, especially given the use-case for this as a portable chair you can keep in the car or under the stroller for those times you're out and about at a restaurant or relative's place.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • The use-case continues to be cheap international outbound calls, and perhaps IM from your iPhone.

    Review: Skype for iPhone. Verdict: Awesome. 2009

  • Given the hybrid ownership model between user & company (in terms of smartphones) – i think, this happens to be a key use-case for the broader-picture issue.

    Wanted: One Mobile Device, for a 24/7 Life 2009

  • Editor Marty Halpern uses Alastair Reynolds as a use-case for exercising author patience before publishing a short story collection.

    SF Tidbits for 7/17/09 2009

  • Video-mapping for OSM might be another use-case: A search engine could find me video clips for a specific road so that I can determine more precise map features.

    ginger's thoughts » First draft of a new media fragment URI addressing standard 2009

  • So, being all old-school, I break the Ubuntu use-case and open up a terminal to run ntpdate. stone@mithril: ~$ sudo - s sudo: timestamp too far in the future: Jan 4 14: 16: 03 2007

    stonetable.org » 2007 » January 2007

  • Little kids when first encountering a hammer and without any parental teaching pick up hammer and begin using it, mostly in the intended hammerlike use-case.

    Archive 2009-07-01 enowning 2009

  • So, being all old-school, I break the Ubuntu use-case and open up a terminal to run ntpdate. stone@mithril: ~$ sudo - s sudo: timestamp too far in the future: Jan 4 14: 16: 03 2007

    stonetable.org » sudo find me a clock 2007

  • Little kids when first encountering a hammer and without any parental teaching pick up hammer and begin using it, mostly in the intended hammerlike use-case.

    enowning enowning 2009

  • Remember the use-case with a driver in a car, wanting to send a brief message of love to his or her pal, alone at home?

    Scripting News for 6/28/2007 « Scripting News Annex 2007

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