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nymwars
[aka "the nymwars"] A series of disputes which arose when Google began
enforcing a "real names" policy on its social network system G+ in 2011.
enforcing a "real names" policy on its social network system Google+ in
2011.
Many internet users were accustomed to using nicknames or pseudonyms on
forums or on IRC and so objected to the forced imposition of an
unfamiliar or unwanted identity. Google also failed to grok the privacy

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one-banana problem
n. At mainframe shops, where the computers have operators for routine
administrivia, the programmers and hardware people tend to look down on the
operators and claim that a trained monkey could do their job. It is
n. At mainframe shops, where the computers had operators for routine
administrivia, the programmers and hardware people tended to look down on the
operators and claim that a trained monkey could do their job. It was
frequently observed that the incentives that would be offered said monkeys
can be used as a scale to describe the difficulty of a task. A one-banana
problem is simple; hence, It's only a one-banana job at the most; what's
taking them so long? At IBM, folklore divides the world into one-, two-, and
three-banana problems. Other cultures have different hierarchies and may
divide them more finely; at ICL, for example, five grapes (a bunch) equals a
banana. Their upper limit for the in-house sysapes is said to be two
bananas and three grapes (another source claims it's three bananas and one
grape, but observes However, this is subject to local variations, cosmic
rays and ISO ). At a complication level any higher than that, one asks the
could be used as a scale to describe the difficulty of a task.
A one-banana problem is simple; hence, It's only a one-banana job at the
most; what's taking them so long? At IBM, folklore divided the world
into one-, two-, and three-banana problems. Other cultures had
different hierarchies and divided them more finely; at ICL, for
example, five grapes (a bunch) equals a banana. Their upper limit for
the in-house sysapes was said to be two bananas and three grapes
(another source claimed it was three bananas and one grape, but observed
however, this is subject to local variations, cosmic rays and ISO ).
At a complication level any higher than that, one asked the
manufacturers to send someone around to check things. See also
Infinite-Monkey Theorem.