I always struggle with how to express to programmers that it's not worth going Ahab on a task or goal.
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Rarely enough to say so. Have to persuade.
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possible I'm just unusually succeptible to melville-themed exhortations
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american dark romanticism has an aesthetic gravitas to it.
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I'm sorry, what's ahab mean?
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the esteemed Captain Ahab, whose nemesis was God Himself in the guise of brute Leviathan
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I understand this statement even less now
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going ahab is a metaphor for chasing your obsession to the pits of hell if necessary.
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heh yeah this in retrospect my answer was probably the opposite of clarifying PS the whale eats him
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