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Perfection is one thing. But this is a page on their website trying to help them recruit for engineers? Shouldn't that have a bit of a higher standard?


all of these comments about non trivial matters are bike shedding. even this comment, its only increasing entropy, your missing the forest for the trees.


@rockdiesel, it's definitely "for" the trees, where "for" means "because of". You can't see the forest (big picture) because you're paying too much attention to the individual trees (details).


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That makes sense. Thank you for your explanation.


Trivial, not non trivial.


Off-topic, but I always thought it was "can't see the forest through the trees" not "forest for the trees".

Meaning someone can't see passed what is in front of them (trees/treeline) to see the bigger picture (forest).




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