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Not to be a pedant, but I think you meant "yak-shaving"(1) not "bike-shedding"(2). Shaving yaks is fun. A little too much fun. Bike-shedding is always misery.
by noonespecial 14y ago
Not to be a pedant, but I think you meant "yak-shaving"(1) not "bike-shedding"(2). Shaving yaks is fun. A little too much fun. Bike-shedding is always misery.
(1) http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yak_shaving* http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yak_shaving*
(2) http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bikeshedding* http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bikeshedding*
- hcarvalhoalves 14y agoThanks, but I really meant bikeshedding - that is, people who "love" coding tend to also "love" wasting time in the details instead of focusing in the big picture.
- yock 14y agoFor what it's worth, I don't agree with you at all. It's like you're saying that the best chefs are those who hate cooking the most. It's a ridiculous notion that betrays a misunderstanding of the relationship between what we do and what is produced by it.
- hcarvalhoalves 14y agoThe irony is that the parallel you made with chefs just proves my point. E.g.: chefs care about delicious dishes, great presentations, evoking emotions, not keeping customers waiting, etc. On the other hand, go ask a chef if he loves chopping vegetables ;) In fact, they couldn't care less about this kind of minutae and develop techniques to do it fast and not waste time. Analogously, coding is the chopping of software development.