wayside

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I don't believe you can throw production efficiency by the wayside until the world is fed.

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Quick take

The side of a road or path.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of wayside gathered in one view.

noun

The side of a road or path.

noun

A rest area.

noun

A sitio in the barangay of Puguis, La Trinidad, Benguet, Philippines.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for wayside.

noun

The side of a road or path.

noun

A rest area.

noun

A sitio in the barangay of Puguis, La Trinidad, Benguet, Philippines.

adjective

Situated near the side of a road or path.

Example sentences

I don't believe you can throw production efficiency by the wayside until the world is fed.

But, as the linked post points out, all those arguments fall by the wayside when the alternative is an in-house language used by no other production project on Earth.

Self-modifying code at one time was near vital, but has fallen by the wayside, fall-through is doing much the same.

At the time, people told me not to waste my time, it's a junk language that will good the wayside.

You can't tell if it's just a page left by the wayside or an important clue...

If either one needs to drop by the wayside, it will be the management portion.

I don't want to participate in these communities where everything you've ever done is put to the wayside.

If a copyleft compiler is thrown by the wayside in the process, or they choose not to release under a copyleft license, that's just collateral.

I fear the graphene will fall by the wayside due to legal and social pressure.

If Facebook falls by the wayside I think it will be because the current social-media-type activities are replaced by something else entirely.

It's great that there's one side that's obligated to act professionally and respectfully; it's a pity that that obligation seems to have fallen by the wayside.

What's really sad is that reddit and Alexis were, arguably, the most successful Y-Combinator startup, and now they've fallen by the wayside as cronyism and personal agendas take over.

Quote examples

Suppose the course material is really cumulative, so that some students "get it" and take off, while other students fall by the wayside.

> and the instruction set is "interesting" (a bit-twiddler/ > superoptimizer's wet dream, if you ask me All fallen by the wayside in Thumb and ARM64, now.

If one looks at it that way, the whole argument about "lenders chose to lend to them, taking risk that they might not be able to pay, therefore they are to blame as well", falls wayside.

Google "build on a patent", here's on example of what I'm talking about: "Your brilliant idea needn't fall by the wayside simply because you don't want to deal with the patent process."