unsigned long geek = random(); » Semantic Quibbles http://mjturner.net/blog Michael-John Turner: Musings from a random UNIX geek Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:28:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Word of the day: Bikeshedding http://mjturner.net/blog/archives/2006/03/09/word-of-the-day-bikeshedding/ http://mjturner.net/blog/archives/2006/03/09/word-of-the-day-bikeshedding/#comments Thu, 09 Mar 2006 19:29:42 +0000 Michael-John Turner http://weblogs.turner.org.za/mj/?p=101 For some reason, I’ve never come across the term “bikeshedding”, which someone used in an email to me today. From The Jargon File:

[originally BSD, now common] Technical disputes over minor, marginal issues conducted while more serious ones are being overlooked. The implied image is of people arguing over what color to paint the bicycle shed while the house is not finished.

Appropriately enough, the FreeBSD FAQ has a nice explanation.

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