Pith Number

pith:VXR3G4BX

pith:2017:VXR3G4BXT7A5MKKOVWNTHKCTPV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Unhappy Developers: Bad for Themselves, Bad for Process, and Bad for Software Product

Daniel Graziotin, Fabian Fagerholm, Pekka Abrahamsson, Xiaofeng Wang

arxiv:1701.02952 v3 · 2017-01-11 · cs.SE · cs.CY

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VXR3G4BXT7A5MKKOVWNTHKCTPV}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:41:07.515128Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ade3b370379fc1d6294ead9b33a8537d5c73c39ceaaccfd0dcb76039bf8c726e

Aliases

arxiv: 1701.02952 · arxiv_version: 1701.02952v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1701.02952 · pith_short_12: VXR3G4BXT7A5 · pith_short_16: VXR3G4BXT7A5MKKO · pith_short_8: VXR3G4BX

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VXR3G4BXT7A5MKKOVWNTHKCTPV \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: ade3b370379fc1d6294ead9b33a8537d5c73c39ceaaccfd0dcb76039bf8c726e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "09a7c7a4d713004cc3afa2207445fa9a08a99a9f87273d51be5e412547b8d0e5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-01-11T12:38:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c08ff6a7af02b0cfbccf48b2ba0099950fea89c8c5666910f78162d7c70b123e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1701.02952",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}