Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective So easy to use or make that there is very little chance of failure.
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- adjective Incapable of being
misused even by the moststupid orcareless of users.
Etymologies
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Examples
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But if your 'story' is correct; that there is a huge supply of unskilled peasants who could be plucked from the farm and put behind idiot-proof machines then there should be no middle class.
Outsourcing, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Made the contents VERY well-organized; basically dumbass-proof (like idiot-proof, only more … proofy).
I NEED YOUR OPINIONS! What should the future of Johnny B. look like? | Johnny B. Truant 2009
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Its 5-gigabyte hard drive could hold up to 1,000 songs, weighed “only” 6 1/2 oz., and had an idiot-proof user interface that made it easy to find and manage your songs.
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But if your 'story' is correct; that there is a huge supply of unskilled peasants who could be plucked from the farm and put behind idiot-proof machines then there should be no middle class
Outsourcing, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Apple made personal computers a standard household product by developing a simple user friendly idiot-proof system that anyone could use.
Dean Baker: Steve Jobs and Alan Greenspan Dean Baker 2011
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It took me nearly an hour of wading through terrible, ad-ridden tutorials, but I found eventually found a simple, idiot-proof solution:
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I think they just decided to go idiot-proof from the beginning. nortexoid benjamen
Re-Enable Ctrl+Alt+Backspace For Ubuntu 9.04 | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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I also never liked all of the effort spent on trying to idiot-proof the OS, like the warnings about browsing program files and the like.
Win 7 Vs Mac OS X Leopard: Feature-by-Feature Showdown | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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We could have replicated our shop in an idiot-proof sort of way in London, but it would have been soulless.
A Taste of Italy Bruce Palling 2011
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Apple made personal computers a standard household product by developing a simple user friendly idiot-proof system that anyone could use.
Dean Baker: Steve Jobs and Alan Greenspan Dean Baker 2011
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