Reminds me of the Hamming's "You and Your Research"[0], the part about fighting the system. Quoting a fragment:
> Many a second-rate fellow gets caught up in some little twitting of the system, and carries it through to warfare. He expends his energy in a foolish project. Now you are going to tell me that somebody has to change the system. I agree; somebody's has to. Which do you want to be? The person who changes the system or the person who does first-class science? Which person is it that you want to be? Be clear, when you fight the system and struggle with it, what you are doing, how far to go out of amusement, and how much to waste your effort fighting the system. My advice is to let somebody else do it and you get on with becoming a first-class scientist. Very few of you have the ability to both reform the system and become a first-class scientist.
But damn, the system (the web, in this case) is utter garbage, and it's so tempting to nitpick and try to fight it...
But this is not even fixing the system level discussion.
This is more like
Guy A: Hey look at the moon.(Pointing to the moon)
Guy B: We shall get to that, right now I see some dirt under your nails. Lets talk about it, not the moon.
This sort of discussion. Which is like the worst sort of pedantic tangential that benefits no one.
Reminds me of the Hamming's "You and Your Research"[0], the part about fighting the system. Quoting a fragment:
> Many a second-rate fellow gets caught up in some little twitting of the system, and carries it through to warfare. He expends his energy in a foolish project. Now you are going to tell me that somebody has to change the system. I agree; somebody's has to. Which do you want to be? The person who changes the system or the person who does first-class science? Which person is it that you want to be? Be clear, when you fight the system and struggle with it, what you are doing, how far to go out of amusement, and how much to waste your effort fighting the system. My advice is to let somebody else do it and you get on with becoming a first-class scientist. Very few of you have the ability to both reform the system and become a first-class scientist.
But damn, the system (the web, in this case) is utter garbage, and it's so tempting to nitpick and try to fight it...
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[0] - http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html