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None of these distinctions would be necessary if people just called efficiency by its proper name. (That would be 'efficiency', by the way.) The use of 'lazy'
by walterk 18y ago
None of these distinctions would be necessary if people just called efficiency by its proper name. (That would be 'efficiency', by the way.) The use of 'lazy' as a synonym is pure marketing for the slacker/non-conformist programmer (whose idea of non-conformity means wearing a t-shirt to work). And it gets you hits, because OMG someone is saying u should be lazy at ur job! Haha that's so counterintuitive!
- thwarted 18y agoThis breaks down when people think that "being efficient" means "not doing enough work". It looks like you're doing a lot of work when you waste time building a database in a spreadsheet rather than loading the data into an actual database to do analysis and reporting. Often times, efficient means using the right tool for the job, and if that means that someone's going to call me lazy, because I can do in 8 hours what it takes someone else 40 hours to do, they can phone it in to me while I'm on vacation because my work is done.