From e282869ec5d28e271174703cbb7e354026abade1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bob Mottram Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 14:54:14 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Past tense --- entries/nymwars.txt | 4 +++- entries/one-banana problem.txt | 26 ++++++++++++++------------ 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/entries/nymwars.txt b/entries/nymwars.txt index 50c5544..6037244 100644 --- a/entries/nymwars.txt +++ b/entries/nymwars.txt @@ -1,7 +1,9 @@ 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 diff --git a/entries/one-banana problem.txt b/entries/one-banana problem.txt index efeaf4e..4233d46 100644 --- a/entries/one-banana problem.txt +++ b/entries/one-banana problem.txt @@ -1,17 +1,19 @@ 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.