alleys

It's not my fault that Chomsky led a generation of linguists down so many blind alleys for decades.

For example, enemies don't pop behind you, they just ambush you (look above you / in side alleys).

There are blind alleys that seem like a good idea, but turn out not to be.

Most of the little alleys in the area have become sites for new high-end apartment buildings.

You could also get an idea of places to avoid, other than the obvious dark alleys.

Now there's meaningful privacy only on the alleys and back roads of the Internet.

All the abortive bits, blind alleys, weird idiosyncracies must be kept, because someone, somewhere depends on it.

The stupid Uber app won't stop sending drivers down alleys in Washington DC.

As tptacek explained, we went down a few blind alleys following the public collapse of the Truecrypt (development) project.

There was a lot of blind alleys to run down trying to solve that, and ultimately the vendors trundled out their Enterprise Service Bus products.

Yep, I agree with your points about pure intuition leading you down blind alleys unless you have some structure in place.

And if the author wants to complain about games feeling like work, precise controller-use, meaningless deaths, or blind alleys are surely much bigger examples of that.

"Taxi lobby" makes it sound like Uber is disrupting some megacorporate industry who control government in smokey back alleys.

From the article (thanks @timdoor): "Freight Farms’s repurposed shipping containers, packed with LED lights, sensors and hydroponic systems and producing lettuce and herbs, are appearing in vacant lots and alleys.

I'd say it's much better to do things you can get out of "until you figure it out", because figuring it out often requires going down many blind alleys, and it's nice to be able to turn around and go back if you don't like one.

Given that it's so small, 6k, I'd called the framework based on this Assembly on Alleys.