Look ma, I'm a lawyer! I'll note that yesterday I was a fireman.
And an astronaut the day before. Isn't pretending fun? -Chad -Chad On Apr 26, 2013 7:25 AM, "Sumana Harihareswara" <[email protected]> wrote: > Luis, the thread: > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/352923 > > On 04/26/2013 06:00 AM, Tyler Romeo wrote: > > > it's straight up obnoxious to come into a thread and undermine > > a topic people care about by calling it "a waste of bytes and people's > > attention". > > No, David isn't calling the *topic* a waste; he's saying that it's more > valuable to hear lawyers speak about this particular messy legal topic > than to hear non-lawyers argue about it. > > > Also, you should seriously look up the definition of the work > bikeshedding. > > It's the theory that organizations give undue weight to trivial issues. > > Not organizations - noisy individuals. http://bikeshed.org/ "the amount > of noise generated by a change is inversely proportional to the > complexity of the change." Specifically, it's an observation that lots > of people speak up when something comes up where they can have an > opinion. From the canonical email: > > > In Denmark we call it "setting your fingerprint". It is about > > personal pride and prestige, it is about being able to point > > somewhere and say "There! *I* did that." It is a strong trait in > > politicians, but present in most people given the chance. Just > > think about footsteps in wet cement. > > Regardless, it's fine for David to opine that lawyers' opinions do carry > more weight here than non-lawyers'. > > -- > Sumana Harihareswara > Engineering Community Manager > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
