<story><title>&apos;Dord&apos;: A Ghost Word</title><url>https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/dord-a-ghost-word</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>barrkel</author><text>The cards are more interesting to me than the word, which I originally thought was going to be some kind of copyright-protecting deliberate mistake.&lt;p&gt;The cards remind me of Jira tickets, with stamps and names as a kind of audit log of work associated with the ticket. I find myself curious about the information architecture and paper processes that companies built around such tickets going to and fro.&lt;p&gt;Such architectures probably have fairly close analogues in distributed systems, and there may be a thing or two to learn from how more innovative and efficient organizations structured their paper pushing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jonhohle</author><text>My wife was a teacher librarian and I used to give her interview questions related to data storage and retrieval. With no interest or background in CS she had no problem describing optimally efficient algorithms based on analog concepts, questions experienced engineers had difficulty answering.</text></comment>
<story><title>&apos;Dord&apos;: A Ghost Word</title><url>https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/dord-a-ghost-word</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>barrkel</author><text>The cards are more interesting to me than the word, which I originally thought was going to be some kind of copyright-protecting deliberate mistake.&lt;p&gt;The cards remind me of Jira tickets, with stamps and names as a kind of audit log of work associated with the ticket. I find myself curious about the information architecture and paper processes that companies built around such tickets going to and fro.&lt;p&gt;Such architectures probably have fairly close analogues in distributed systems, and there may be a thing or two to learn from how more innovative and efficient organizations structured their paper pushing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ben174</author><text>Copyright protection was my first thought too, similar to how cartographers used to put “bunnies” in their maps to identify copycats.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sfgate.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;Mapmakers-sleight-of-hand-Cartographers-put-2889584.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.sfgate.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;Mapmakers-sleight-of-han...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>