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		MathMonkeyMan 12 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Institutional memory and reverse smuggling (2011) Three problems with documentation. Sometimes it doesn't exist, sometimes you can't find it, and sometimes you don't read it. Well I guess the fourth problem is it could be wrong, but that just comes with the territory.

MichaelZuo 12 months ago [–]

There could be a fifth problem too, it shouldn’t be referenced.

Because it was compiled incorrectly by someone/some group without sufficient permission to do so, so referring to it would lead to corporate politiking.

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