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Raymond, E. S., & Steele, G. L. (1996). The Jargon File. The Jargon File (online edition of The New Hacker's Dictionary, 3rd ed.).

Type

Reference work

Intellectual base

Reference work

Year

1996

ISBN

9780262680929

Link

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Cited by

1 citation across 1 artifact.

Domain-specific

• Hand-waving
  • … the distinction between constitutive identity and a convenient observable transfers from A proof says 'the result is obvious by symmetry' when the claimed symmetry does not map the relevant cases. to A reviewer names the omitted lemma or evidence and distinguishes pedagogical sketching from deceptive evasion..

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