--- On Tue, 9/9/08, Aristotle Pagaltzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Who's Bob Nimby? > > > > No one. 'Bob' is a generic name. Nimby refers > to "NIMBY" -- Not > > In My BackYard -- the selfish habit of people who shut > down > > needed works because they're personally > inconvenienced. > > OK, this just took a turn to the weird and now I’m lost. > What did you mean by your previous reply?
Sorry, I guess I should have been more explicit. I thought it was perfectly clear, but when the two replies are "huh?", then obviously I've dropped the ball :) Is NIMBY just an American term? That would explain the confusion. Basically, there are quite a number of times when a particular project needs more work to support needs that some people have, but by no means all. I completely understand why people say "I don't need X because I do Y." There's nothing wrong with that and it's often very helpful. However, *some* of those people following it up with something along the lines of "and therefore you don't need X and I object if you add it". That really frosts my Pop-Tart (tm) because it's often blatantly not true. I remember an old argument in a pub where someone told me that anyone who wanted Test::Harness::GUI was an idiot because the command line was all anyone needs (sigh). (Anyone remember the Joel Spolsky article where he talks about 10% of MS Word features -- seemed that's all everyone needed, but everyone needed a different 10%) Cheers, Ovid -- Buy the book - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ Tech blog - http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/ Twitter - http://twitter.com/OvidPerl Official Perl 6 Wiki - http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6
