wagging

The big question, is this the dog wagging the tail or the tail wagging the human?

Of course the kernel is GPL and forking is allowed, but I have yet to see such an idiotic case of tail wagging the dog.

They come up and cling to him as their Master, wagging their tails and licking his hands and feet.

You're blaming the tail for wagging, but the dog's tail doesn't wag just because it chooses to.

It's this quote that caught my attention Optimizability dictating language features to this extent is the tail wagging the dog.

Dan Abramov is a very knowledgeable React person, so it's not just random finger wagging.

The tail isn't just wagging the dog, it's controlling it with direct brain implants.

To be simultaneously jingoistic about the USA while wagging a finger at Europeans for nationalism and bigotry reminds me of another bible quote.

Optimizability dictating language features to this extent is the tail wagging the dog.

A dog has a tail, and it can be wagging or not.

In other words, the tail was wagging the dog.

Foxes in Class I are friendly toward experimenters, wagging their tails and whining.

I certainly don't think that finger-wagging at black people saying "you need to self police" is going to fix anything.

It's 90% finger wagging "you don't know what I know" and 1 sentence of the point.

Rather than some dumb finger-wagging about "just change your attitude." The problem is so widespread & systematic, just like the open-office problem, closed/political allocation of projects problem, macho subordination/willingness to work in Agile/Scrum problem, and a host of others.

Well, if it's not "random finger wagging" then that makes up for the fact that he spends several paragraphs berating the reader for not being as smart as he is and seeing what he sees and spends exactly 1 sentence explaining what it is that he sees.