sausage

He might not have any, The same way people who work at sausage factories don't eat sausage.

But the reality is that building a community platform like Reddit is very different from running a sausage factory.

It's basically the old aphorism that you don't want to know how the sausage is made.

We kind of suspected how the sausage is made, but actually seeing it is still shocking.

This is open source -- you get to see how the sausage is made.

I don't really think they are obligated to describe to you how they make the sausage.

As if what computers some boring bank, insurance company or sausage making company uses is something to care about...

It sounds like your boss is viewing the development team as he should, it's a sausage factory.

Usually you don't want to see how that particular sausage was made; the history of land distribution and acquisition in the U.

Also folklore.org is a nice collection of fables on how the sausage got made.

It basically doesn't allow folks to see the sausage as it's being made.

And then wild boar sausage rolls for a late afternoon snack.

In fairness, "nobody gives a shit how the sausage is made." If this product adds value to people's lives, why does it matter if they lifted the website design?

Professional kitchens are "sausage fests".

I remember my mom always telling me about her work in a sausage factory before she became a teacher and me thinking something like "hell no, I won't even start like this".

I really like the author's analogy to a "communal sausage." Working at a company where our main backend is built on Rails / Ruby, security can always be a bit scary (though has gotten much better in recent history).