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Curious, what does it mean to "bikeshed" something?
by jbrennan 16y ago
Curious, what does it mean to "bikeshed" something?
- Lammy 16y agoI believe j_baker is referring to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_Law_of_Triviality http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_Law_of_Triviality
- j_baker 16y agoLammy is correct. Essentially, it means to start a controversy over something not because it's important, but because it's easy to understand. For instance, everyone can have an opinion about whether Python should have an explicit self argument on methods. But few people would argue with me if I suggested that Python should do away with metaclasses (which would probably have a much bigger effect on the language as a whole than doing away with self) simply because few people actually know what a Python metaclass is.