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Re:Why Debian returned to FFmpeg by netheril96 on Sunday July 26, 2015 @09:05AM (#9950932)
The perfectionist in me thinks in another way: time is an important resource and time taken should be considered a penalty from the perfection point. That is, if you spend too much time implementing a feature "perfectly", that is not perfect in the 4D spacetime continuum.
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Re:Why Debian returned to FFmpeg by xenophonf on Monday July 27, 2015 @12:38PM (#9956258)
I like this way of thinking.

I'm a perfectionist, too, but I'm also lazy. As a result I hate the idea of working hard on some beautiful piece of code that no one ends up using.

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