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submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 weeks ago (6 children)

Someone please explain, I'm in middle school amd I'm writing my first paper.

[–] Balthazar 65 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

When scientists want to publish their results, the paper first goes to one or more referees (usually anonymous), who advise the editor about the quality of the paper. It is common for referees to ask why the original author(s) did not consider a particular question as part of their work. The reply in the cartoon is commonly used by the author to defuse that question, essentially saying we didn't consider that question because it's too much work, and just publish what I've done already, dammit.

[–] Jesus_666 16 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

The software development industry version of this is "we really need to fix that soon but it's beyond the scope of this PBI".

"Soon" is a shorthand for "we'll put this on the backlog and never pull it into a sprint until it blows up in our faces, at which time we will gripe about how nobody bothered to fix it earlier".