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Open Food Facts is the largest and more comprehensive open database on the planet, by far. The Open Food Facts Slack  (open to all) has several channels for discussions, updates, and collaborations. I’ll keep sharing interesting facts I come across in the conversations there, right here: *  Pierre (teolemon) - The data (is)...legally acquired, through crowdsourcing and/or AI extraction from Crowdsourcing or existing OFF data. We don’t allow scraping for legal reasons. *  Alex Bourreau - I made a small tool to check what your contributions to Open Food Facts are used for : https://contributionreuses.bourreau.dev/ Enter your OFF username and it shows you a list of scientific articles that relied on data of products you've created ! *  James Addison  -  OpenFoodFacts does have methods to detect products where errors seem likely; it tracks those errors and distributes them to registered volunteers, who then help by reviewing the errors, often fixing them wher...

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Allen Holub explains the difference between a use case and a user story  - Bob Martin describes use cases pretty well in his book Clean Architecture :  "A use case is a description of the way that an automated system is used. It specifies the input to be provided by the user, the output to be returned to the user, and the processing steps involved in producing that output." Put another way, a use case describes how a user uses a computer program. A use case describes how to use an existing program, or, if the program can't do everything necessary, it identifies aspects of the program we'll have to create. Use cases live in the implementation space. A user story, on the other hand, is a description of the user's work. It is literally the user's story. The story describes a domain-level problem and, when fleshed out, describes how a user solves that problem when working at the domain level. The story describes the user's work, not ours. A story does not desc...