The MTV show " This Week in Rock " used excerpts from the Jargon File in its " CyberStuff " segments . " Computing Reviews " used one of the Jargon File's definitions on its December 1991 cover.
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The MTV show " This Week in Rock " used excerpts from the Jargon File in its " CyberStuff " segments . " Computing Reviews " used one of the Jargon File's definitions on its December 1991 cover.
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The most important consciousness-raising moments have included the composition of the first Jargon File in 1973, the promulgation of the GNU Manifesto in 1985, and the publication of Eric Raymond's " The Cathedral and the Bazaar " in 1997.
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According to the Jargon File, the term " Slashdot effect " refers to phenomenon of a website becoming virtually unreachable because too many people are hitting it after the site was mentioned in an interesting article on the popular Slashdot news service.
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This event spelled the doom of ITS and the technical cultures that had spawned the original jargon file, but by the 1990s it had become something of a badge of honor among old-time hackers to have cut one's teeth on a PDP-10.
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:: Does The Jargon File help ? ( I'm not sure I'd describe it as'philosophical ontology'- but it's a dictionary that's full of the terms that OpenSource programmer use-explained in more-or-less plain english . talk ) 04 : 41, 8 December 2009 ( UTC)
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Eric Raymond, a leading open-source advocate, writing in his online " Jargon File, " described the politics of the archetypal open-source programmer, whom he calls J . Random Hacker, as " vaguely liberal-moderate, except for the strong libertarian contingent, which rejects conventional left-right politics entirely ."
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:* Emphasis * ( not bold ) and _ underline _ were used in the Jargon File in version 2.1 . 1, Jun 1990, and explicitly described in 2.2 . 1, Dec 1990, which is the first version to have a " Hacker Writing Style " section.
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The Jargon File started as a combined effort between people on the ITS machines at MIT and at Stanford University SAIL . The document described much of the terminology, puns, and culture of the two AI Labs and related research groups, and is the direct predecessor of the " Hacker's Dictionary ".
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The " Jargon File ", a compendium of hacker lore, defines " bit rot " as a jocular explanation for the degradation of a software program over time even if " nothing has changed "; the idea being this is almost as if the bits that make up the program were subject to radioactive decay.
