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{{short description|Idiomatic expression, meaning to waste effort on something that has already been achieved}} To '''reinvent the wheel''' is to attempt to duplicate—most likely with inferior results—a basic method that has already ...

...raphy]], '''snake oil''' is any cryptographic method or product considered to be bogus or fraudulent. The name derives from [[snake oil]], one type of [[ ...ptographers, such as [[Bruce Schneier]] and [[Phil Zimmermann]], undertake to educate the public in how secure cryptography is done, as well as highlight ...

...peaking_mitese|title=Speaking MITese |publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology |access-date=8 June 2016}}</ref> ...sher=disfunksioneel |access-date=30 May 2018}}</ref> The word is also used to describe instances of unnecessary, leftover or just poorly written [[source ...

...n Seddon]] referred to Aucklanders as "Rangitoto Yanks," and is considered to be representative of the boorishness of Aucklanders, or the envy of the res ...c_id=1&objectid=10419468 |title=Brian Rudman: It's obviously a high honour to be a Wellingtonian |author=Brian Rudman |date=17 January 2007 |work=[[The N ...

...davies-the-real-power-to-def.asp |title=James Giago Davies: The real power to defeat the Wasicu pipeline|website=Indianz.com |last=Giago Davies |first=Ja ...igner [[Nick Estes]] writes "the highest insult in Lakota is to be greedy, to be wasicu".<ref>Estes is Assistant Professor in [[American Indian Studies]] ...

..., see the [[list of Ireland-related topics]]; for a list of topics related to the [[United Kingdom]], see the [[Outline of the United Kingdom]].'' ...on]] of the UK, amongst other terms. The following list of topics relating to Northern Ireland are grouped alphabetically. ...

...de]] that encodes [[control flow]] that is convoluted, and therefore, hard to understand. The code tends to be hard to [[Software maintenance |maintain]]. ...

...ed States, the term came into increasing use following white male backlash to the [[civil rights movement]] and [[second-wave feminism]] of the mid-20th ...e known as the [[right to vote]], the [[gender pay gap]] gave new salience to women's rights issues.<ref name=atl/> While the issue of women's rights was ...

{{short description|Japanese pejorative term}} ...ttp://www.plexoft.com/SBF/J02.html#juku Kriman, Alfred. "SBF Glossary: Jo. to J-2". 10/25/07]</ref> ...

{{Short description|Pejorative term for a car with excessive cosmetic additions, often in 1980s Japanese s ...Monthly 2002"/> Variations include '''rice rocket''', referring most often to Japanese [[superbike]]s, '''rice machine''', '''rice grinder''' or simply ' ...

...ry 2025}} Princeton currently has no plans to release any new versions due to staffing and funding issues.<ref name=":0" /> New versions are still being ...uding the [[DARPA]], the [[National Science Foundation]], the [[Disruptive Technology Office]] (formerly the Advanced Research and Development Activity) and REFL ...

| cultural_origins = 1960s to mid-1970s ...70s. It typically involves [[radio]]-friendly rock music that was designed to be played for large audiences. ...

{{Short description|Word or construction peculiar to or borrowed from the English language}} ...batim and sometimes adapted to the importing language in a process similar to anglicisation. In languages with non-[[Latin alphabet]]s, these borrowed wo ...

{{Short description|List of indexes to lists on a topic}} ...re lists of other list articles. Each of the pages linked here is an index to multiple lists on a topic. ...

{{Short description|Person skilled in information technology}} ...mity tools (such as a [[Virtual private network|VPN]] or the [[dark web]]) to mask their identities online and pose as criminals.<ref>{{Cite journal|last ...

{{Short description|Pejorative term related to intellectual property}} ...atent trolls", when they license their patented technologies on reasonable terms in advance.<ref>{{cite web|title=These Aren't The Patent Trolls You're Look ...

...ds, patent infringement is the commission of a prohibited act with respect to a patented [[invention]] without permission from the patent holder. Permiss ...n the [[claim (patent)|claim]]s of the granted patent. In other words, the terms of the claims inform the public of what is not allowed without the permissi ...

{{Short description|Philosophical view explaining systems in terms of smaller parts}} ...am|pages=63|language=en}}</ref> contrary to [[holism]]. Reductionism tends to focus on the small, predictable details of a system and is often associated ...

...he term "hobby-horse" was used to refer to whimsical obsessions, which led to the current use of the word "hobby". ]] ...ovements of the nineteenth century provided workers with more leisure time to engage in hobbies. Because of this, the efforts of people investing in hobb ...

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