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manularity
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/man`yoolaritee/ , n. [prob. fr. techspeak manual + granularity ] A notional
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measure of the manual labor required for some task, particularly one of the
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sort that automation is supposed to eliminate. Composing English on paper
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has much higher manularity than using a text editor, especially in the
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revising stage. Hackers tend to consider manularity a symptom of primitive
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methods; in fact, a true hacker confronted with an apparent requirement to
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do a computing task by hand will inevitably seize the opportunity to build
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another tool (see toolsmith ).
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