Sunday, 25 February 2018

Lazyweb Calling

quote [ The common theme of all Lazyweb requests is a tacit acknowledgement that none of us is as dumb as all of us. ]

Stumbled upon this recently – a quite appealing description.

Here's a more technical explanation bringing up the open source software –
Given Enough Eyeballs, Are Features Shallow Too?:

Like debugging, the success of the LazyWeb is related at least in part to the quality of the descriptions. A feature, schema, or application described in enough detail can give the right developer (usually someone thinking about the same problem) a clear idea of how to code it quickly.
[SFW] [science & technology] [+5 Interesting]
[by Paracetamol]
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Bruceski said @ 9:44pm GMT on 25th February
I'm a fan of doing one's own research, but it's very easy to run into issues where you know the problem but not the jargon that would make a solution easy, and a lot of stuff that's obvious in hindsight is impenetrable before learning it. Also some people seem way too eager to abandon the semblance of a conversation. If somebody posts using a term I don't recognize I'm probably going to say "what's that" rather than go look it up because that's what people do when talking to each other.


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