Re: [lojban] Michael Everson, What Do You Want From Us?

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 09:39:54PM +0100, Michael Everson wrote:
> On 30 Mar 2010, at 18:53, Kevin Reid wrote:
>
> > Of course, a large portion of the discussion is bikeshed
> > painting, or whatever you want to call it; but *stomping on the
> > discussion is not the right answer*.
> 
> What is this bike-shed thing? (I parsed this as bi-kesh'd the
> first time I saw it.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson's_Law_of_Triviality

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1557897

Compare yak shaving:

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2005/03/dont_shave_that.html

-Robin

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