-This file last generated Monday, 10 August 2020 03:08PM UTC +This file last generated Thursday, 26 November 2020 08:02PM UTC
1. An 8 bit Acorn computer from the early 1980s, regarded as being a budget version of the BBC Micro.
2. A very inefficient way of packaging web systems for use as stand alone desktop apps by bundling them with a chromium web browser. Given the amount of system resources which web browsers consume this could make electron apps very sluggish, and running multiple such apps could be hazardous.
-1. An 8 bit Acorn computer from the early 1980s, regarded as being a budget version of the BBC Micro.
- -2. A very inefficient way of packaging web applications for use in desktop environments by bundling them with a web browser.
adj. [common; from mathematical usage] Combining simplicity, power, and a certain ineffable grace of design. Higher praise than clever , winning , or even cuspy. The French aviator, adventurer, and author Antoine de Saint-Exupry, probably best known for his classic children's book The Little Prince , was also an aircraft designer. He gave us perhaps the best definition of engineering elegance when he said A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. diff --git a/docs/jargon.org b/docs/jargon.org index 8e3efc9..47a4f1a 100644 --- a/docs/jargon.org +++ b/docs/jargon.org @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Free Documentation License". * Generated -This file last generated Monday, 10 August 2020 03:08PM UTC +This file last generated Thursday, 26 November 2020 08:02PM UTC * Glossary ** ( @@ -3793,11 +3793,6 @@ n. The heroic age of hackerdom (roughly, pre-1980); the era of the PDP-10 , TECO 2. A very inefficient way of packaging web systems for use as stand alone desktop apps by bundling them with a chromium web browser. Given the amount of system resources which web browsers consume this could make electron apps very sluggish, and running multiple such apps could be hazardous. -*** electron -1. An 8 bit Acorn computer from the early 1980s, regarded as being a budget version of the BBC Micro. - -2. A very inefficient way of packaging web applications for use in desktop environments by bundling them with a web browser. - *** elegant adj. [common; from mathematical usage] Combining simplicity, power, and a certain ineffable grace of design. Higher praise than clever , winning , or even cuspy. The French aviator, adventurer, and author Antoine de Saint-Exupry, probably best known for his classic children's book The Little Prince , was also an aircraft designer. He gave us perhaps the best definition of engineering elegance when he said A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. diff --git a/entries/patch.txt b/entries/patch.txt index 774df99..cc54d78 100644 --- a/entries/patch.txt +++ b/entries/patch.txt @@ -8,3 +8,6 @@ patches might later be corrected by other patches on top of them (patches were said to grow scar tissue ). The result was often a convoluted patch space and headaches galore. 5. +The term originates from the earliest digital computers which used paper +tape or punched cards in the 1940s. To fix a problem you would glue a +physical patch of tape or paper over the holes.