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See also bikeshed: > The law has been applied to software development and other activities.[2] The terms bicycle-shed effect, bike-shed effect, and bike-sheddi
by throw0101a 6y ago
See also bikeshed:
> The law has been applied to software development and other activities.[2] The terms bicycle-shed effect, bike-shed effect, and bike-shedding were coined as metaphors to illuminate the law of triviality; it was popularised in the Berkeley Software Distribution community by the Danish software developer Poul-Henning Kamp in 1999[3] and has spread from there to the software industry.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality
* [3] http://phk.freebsd.dk/sagas/bikeshed/ http://phk.freebsd.dk/sagas/bikeshed/
- phkamp 6y agoDont forget the inimitable http://bikeshed.org http://bikeshed.org about which I regularly receive offers of SEO and "increased sales" :-)
- dash2 6y agoPleased to see that you got the original phrase from Parkinson's Law. That book deserves a wider audience, and so does its sequel The Law and the Profits. Here's a PDF: http://sas2.elte.hu/tg/ptorv/Parkinson-s-Law.pdf http://sas2.elte.hu/tg/ptorv/Parkinson-s-Law.pdf
- tinco 6y agoThat's great, it loaded with a hideous green that made it so unreadable I suspected it would have a different color on reload. It of course did, so I refreshed three more times until it had a very comfortable pastel red background. I'm not 100% certain what that means for the whole bikeshed discussion..