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I love how somebody modded INFORMATION down. And here we were just making fun of Reddit for this kind of infantile behavior.
by NonNefarious 4y ago
I love how somebody modded INFORMATION down.
And here we were just making fun of Reddit for this kind of infantile behavior.
- nemothekid 4y agoBecause it's bike shedding. The post is about some pretty interesting database internals and a comment nitpicking about the semantics of language, which have no relevance to the article content, isn't constructive.
- NonNefarious 4y ago
- gqewogpdqa 4y ago"bike shedding" is a well known term of art in many places. That said, it might not be as prevalent as I think (or obviously OP thought). But, I was able to find that it's quite common with a quick Google: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality