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• desk check n.,v. To grovel over hardcopy of source code, mentally simulating the control flow
  a method of catching bugs. No longer common practice in this age of on-screen editing, fast compiles, and sophisticated debuggers -- though some maintain stoutly that it ought to be....
• eyeball search: n.,v. To look for something in a mass of code or data with one's own native optical senso
  as opposed to using some sort of pattern matching software like {grep} or any other automated search tool....
• eyeball search n.,v. To look for something in a mass of code or data with one's own native optical senso
  as opposed to using some sort of pattern matching software like grep or any other automated search tool....
• diff: /dif/ n. 1. A change listing, especially giving differences between (and additions to) source code or documents (the term is often used in the plural `diffs').
  Send me your diffs for the Jargon File!" Compare {vdiff}....
• vdiff: /vee'dif/ v.,n. Visual diff. The operation of finding differences between two files by {eyeball search}.
  The term `optical diff' has also been reported, and is sometimes more specifically used for the act of superimposing two nearly identical printouts on one another and holding them up to a light to spot differences....
• vgrep: /vee'grep/ v.,n. Visual grep. The operation of finding patterns in a file optically rather than digitally (also called an `optical grep').
  See {grep}; compare {vdiff}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• vulture capitalist: n. Pejorative hackerism for `venture capitalist'
  deriving from the common practice of pushing contracts that deprive inventors of control over their own innovations and most of the money they ought to have made from them....
• examining the entrails: n. The process of {grovel}ling through a {core dump} or hex image in an attempt to discover the bug that brought a program or system down.
  The reference is to divination from the entrails of a sacrified animal....
• diff /dif/ n. 1. A change listing, especially giving differences between (and additions to) source code or documents (the term is often used in the plural `diffs').
  Send me your diffs for the Jargon File!" Compare vdiff....