Re^5: Papal infallibility

[eyepopslikeamosquito]

I remember a famous BrowserUk experiment where he set out to prove he could gain lots of XP by posting nothing but utter rubbish. Despite holding all ten worst nodes of the week his XP kept on flying upwards! At the time, I felt Buk's experiment was redundant because another infamously lazy perl monk had already proved it.

Given the success of Buk's experiment, perhaps that quote should be re-worked somehow by replacing "lazy" with another word, such as your "operosity" suggestion, or perhaps "busy", "buzzing", "active", ...

[talexb]

Wow -- I must have missed that contretemps in the Monastery. He was an interesting, knowledgeable character.

I take laziness to mean that a developer should be so familiar with their tools that they can write something fairly simple to solve a complicated problem. So lazy is not idle, it's efficient.

[LanX]

"Lazyness" is for me a tongue in cheek way for "progress by automating boring steps".

Like avoiding boilerplating by authoring a clever module which comes much cheaper in the long run.

The point is that this investment in a module is quite expensive in the beginning.

But after one climbed that mountain one reaches more fertile grounds. (which are feeding you for less work)

Example?

I wrote this Wikisyntax for the Monastery out of laziness° and it saved me tons of time in the meantime, but was expensive in the beginning.

°) Well and hubris! Using JS for this was considered a no no, when I started.