Cool it, Chad. -Sumana On 04/26/2013 07:33 AM, Chad wrote: > 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 >
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