Glossary

bikeshedding

• Futile investment of time and energy in discussion of marginal technical issues.
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dogfooding

• The practice of using one's own products or services to help find bugs.
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do-ocracy

• An organizational structure in which people are encouraged to set goals and accomplish tasks on their own, rather than leaders assigning tasks or roles to a particular person or group. Individuals are “free” to do tasks that they feel they should be done and minimal supervision or permission is required. The success or failure of a particular project is linked directly to the efforts of the people who do the things.
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toast

• A unit of distance exactly equal to one toast.

yak shaving

• Any apparently useless activity which, by allowing you to overcome intermediate difficulties, allows you to solve a larger problem.
• A less useful activity done consciously or subconsciously to procrastinate about a larger but more useful task.
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