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But in this case, it's not some sort of picayune hair-splitting going on.

As a most picayune silver lining, one person, at least, enjoyed the title of your blog post, and even more so after learning your last name.

I’m suggesting that in a world of finite resources, one should prioritize the most serious over the picayune

Expecting that companies want their employees to be able to do their jobs without being blocked by picayune rules is simple, but it's not simplistic.

Given this, there should be market opportunity for a company which courts the supposed legions of people denied for picayune reasons.

But his fabrications, numerous as they were, were relatively picayune, and he was still a cub reporter career-wise.

It's not merely "the same content", it is content automatically sourced from Craigslist, and while that may seem like a picayune distinction, it is not.

Eight words -- eight syllables -- laying bare why so many engineers tend to have such a hard time dealing with politics and people, on every scale from the picayune to the planetary.

The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the repetitive, the pointlessly complex.

The grammar issues presented on this page are picayune distinctions with very little potential for major misunderstandings.

To breathe, so to speak, without air.“The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the repetitive, the pointlessly complex.

I'll quibble with the author's superfluous use of comp/partial as a documentation aid, and the picayune advice to use single-sentence-spacing in comments deserves an eyeroll.

How does moving this work to an outside free platform improve the situation?Moreover, how do you replicate work like calling sources to verify statements before publication?I wrote a short piece for Wired once and had to go back and forth with their fact checker on the most picayune details.