...but that model gave us Bowerbirds, birds that build elaborate structures that don’t do anything except demonstrate its fitness to spend large amounts of time

...but that model gave us Bowerbirds, birds that build elaborate structures that don’t do anything except demonstrate its fitness to spend large amounts of time building elaborate structures. The first thing I thought when I read this was Dribbble. I'm also a designer and have definitely gawked at the immense amount of time some members of that site have spent on entirely useless pixel perfection. I don't really feel the same way about programming, though. I'd much rather dash through a project and get it functional than craft it such that the code is beautiful.