Laziness
Laziness manifests itself in several ways:
Laziness: The quality that makes you go to great effort to reduce overall energy expenditure. It makes you write labor-saving programs that other people will find useful, and document what you wrote so that you don't have to answer so many questions about it.
Deferring an unpleasant task
Doing an unpleasant task quickly to get it out of the way
Writing a tool to do the unpleasant task so that you never have to do the task again
Some of these manifestations of laziness are better than others. The first is hardly ever beneficial. You've probably had the experience of spending several hours futzing with jobs that didn't really need to be done so that you wouldn't have to face a relatively ...
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