Definitions
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- noun
Futile investment oftime andenergy in marginal technical issues. - noun
Procrastination .
Etymologies
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Examples
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We are basically the steering committee that makes decisions on release schedules and other project management issues - the things that cannot be effectively done by the community at large without running into security, privacy or 'bikeshedding' issues.
Techworld.com News 2010
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A simple “been there – done that – it was an incredibly stupid idea” can save everyone from quite some headache and bikeshedding.
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A simple “been there – done that – it was an incredibly stupid idea” can save everyone from quite some headache and bikeshedding.
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Development moved slowly because endless bikeshedding impaired efforts to reconcile technical differences between the disparate Nokia and Intel software components.
Ars Technica Ryan Paul 2011
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Development moved slowly because endless bikeshedding impaired efforts to reconcile technical differences between the disparate Nokia and Intel software components.
Ars Technica Ryan Paul 2011
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Among the pitfalls he mentions are undirected and inconclusive discussions about detail (including bikeshedding and resource fetishism -- look those terms up if you need to).
disruptive.org.uk 2010
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But I'm sure that I could find huge bikeshedding threads on fedora-devel about this if I really cared why this was decided.
Planet Python 2009
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But I'm sure that I could find huge bikeshedding threads on fedora-devel about this if I really cared why this was decided.
Planet Python 2009
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But I'm sure that I could find huge bikeshedding threads on fedora-devel about this if I really cared why this was decided.
Planet Python 2009
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But I'm sure that I could find huge bikeshedding threads on fedora-devel about this if I really cared why this was decided.
Planet Python 2009
yarb commented on the word bikeshedding
Saw this one floating by on the main page. Can anyone explain it?
June 25, 2011
reesetee commented on the word bikeshedding
Urban Dictionary says that it refers to "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."
June 25, 2011
yarb commented on the word bikeshedding
Great! Thanks.
June 26, 2011
reesetee commented on the word bikeshedding
You bet. Looks like a Wiktionary definition just arrived on this page, too.
June 26, 2011
sionnach commented on the word bikeshedding
Is it related to yakshaving or featherbedding? Is it about a bicycle?
June 26, 2011
reesetee commented on the word bikeshedding
I never even heard of a shed specifically for bicycles until I saw this word.
June 26, 2011
yarb commented on the word bikeshedding
Every school had bike sheds back in the day. Behind the bike sheds was the scene of illicit activities like smoking, fighting and smooching. I've never heard of a house with a "bike shed" though - at home I use the back yard for those activities.
June 27, 2011
reesetee commented on the word bikeshedding
Hmm. Guess I didn't grow up in a bike shed area. We always conducted that sort of business behind the local bakery.
June 28, 2011