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Bimyou has roots in the Buddhist concept mimyo, referring to something of an indescribable wonder. Its widely used meaning is “subtle,” which has a pleasant literary quality. By 2000, it had morphed into something more colloquially, dismissively bland and was the most widely recognized piece of slang in a 2015 survey by the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs.
The Good, the Bad, and the Bimyou
foreignpolicy.com
If I were asked to do the same thing for Linux, it likely would take five years, and two dozen people.
Linux is pretty balkanize, has a lot of kingdom building, and you have to pee on everything to make it smell like Linux.
I could do the same in FreeBSD in about a year and a half, with a dozen co-conspirators to run the changes through.
What Goes Into Making an OS to Be Unix Compliant Certified?
Quora
To keep this market churning, and to give the consulting industry something to sell to firms trying to understand (i.e., increase the productivity of) their younger workers, we have invented a concept that allows “youth culture” to be redefined periodically. This is the concept of the generation.
It’s Time to Stop Talking About “Generations”
newyorker.com
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