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"Out to lunch", "bike shedding". Ironic how colloquialisms are used so freely in an industry that despises counter-productive complications.

• jaytaylor 11y ago
  To be clear: I wasn't immediately sure if it's Linus doing the bike shedding- In fact it appears to me more like the PR is the culprit.
  • jmpeax 11y ago
    wtf does "bike shedding" even mean?!
    • fnordfnordfnord 11y ago
      http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/B/bikeshedding.html http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/B/bikeshedding.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson's_law_of_triviality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson's_law_of_triviality Or: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bikeshedding http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bikeshedding
      • jmpeax 11y ago
        Yeah, I can google too, just kernel developers can find what the function overflow_usub does. That's not the point.