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Agreed. There should be a term for "takes problem from one place and puts it in another place yielding no net advantage."
by michaelfeathers 16y ago
Agreed. There should be a term for "takes problem from one place and puts it in another place yielding no net advantage."
- JonnieCache 16y ago"Shuffling the deckchairs on the titanic" comes to mind, but it isn't really a term.
- IsaacL 16y agoI've heard that phrase a few times before, but I don't think it fits the context here. The context is a "solution" that creates more problems than it solves. "Shuffling the deckchairs/polishing the silverware on the Titanic" refers to busying oneself with small problems when there's a honking great problem that's being ignored.
- riffraff 16y agoparasolving? Though this is not really the case, I'd say it's more like "the problem is still there but we walked around it with a different route". Perisolving maybe? Especially if you consider that part of the problem is that something won't work but it may take hours to understand it's because the semantics of Enumerable#group_by in library X are not the same as the ones defined in library Y.
- goodside 16y agoCircumsolution.
- Confusion 16y agoThe old saying Out of the frying pan, into the fire seems perfectly applicable. Although it originally implies that matters get worse, it's colloquially used to indicate things don't get any better.
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