Codeless Code Case1 Small Stuff

For three days and nights the Java master did not emerge from his cubicle. On the fourth day the monks of the temple sent a novice to inquire after him.

The novice found the master at his whiteboard, contemplating a single dataflow diagram. The novice recognized it as a minor component of the vast system that the monks were contracted to maintain. Politely, the novice asked what the master was working on.

The master replied: “There is a defect, and I am considering the best way to repair it.”

The novice said, “You preach often about the importance of setting priorities. How, then, can you obsess about something so tiny and unimportant?”

Without saying a word, the master raised his staff and brought it down hard upon the bare left foot of the novice, breaking his smallest toe. The novice screamed in pain and staggered from the cubicle. In that moment, the novice was enlightened.

译文：
Java大师闭关了三天三夜，在第四天的早上，寺庙里的和尚派了一个新手去请安。

新手发现大师在考虑白板上的一个数据流图。新手认出了这是需要维护的庞大系统中很次要的一部分，于是他很礼貌的问大师在做什么。

大师回答他：”这有一个bug，我正在想一个修复它的最好办法“。

新手说：”你经常强调要分清主次，那么，为什么你对一个这么小的事情如此痴迷？“

大师一句话都没说，举起了权杖，重重的砸在了新手左脚上，把小拇指砸折了。新手痛苦的叫了出来，颤颤巍巍的走了出去。在那一刻，他顿悟了。

理解：

虽然分清主次很重要，但是也不能小看次要的东西，次要的东西坏了，造成的伤害，可能会比你想象的更大。

很多时候，我们的工作中会有一些tech debt，或是一些永远排不上priority的小bug，这些看起来不起眼，但是在有些时候，可能会给我们的development或是maintain带来意想不到的灾难。Fixit文化就是为了解决这些看起来不重要的小东西。