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There’s very little on this planet as polarizing as “the right position of toilet paper”: what I call cis-centralis /pendens, or trans-centralis/murālis? (yup, I just made those up — start googling 👹).<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*APk8AVbLtK9dn6VYwNIv_w.png" /><figcaption>A puffin trying to find the right position to his toilet paper</figcaption></figure>As a <a href="https://rubyonrails.org/">Ruby on Rails</a> developer, I’ve been long interested in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_over_configuration">Default over Configuration</a> (and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishment">POLA</a>). What is the default/correct solution? I thought I knew.. until I got married.<pre>myhome: bath_ricc: toilet_paper_position: &#39;?!?&#39; # looking for a golden default.. bath_kids: toilet_paper_position: &#39;?!?&#39; # must clearly be the same golden default!</pre><h4>The official Solution</h4>The inventor of toilet paper patented the solution in 1891 (patent <a href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US459516">US459516</a>, apparently Seth Wheeler was a Googler ante litteram).<figure><img alt="Wheeler took good time to describe how to extract the paper, piece by piece. Wow!" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/500/0*SR7pztID9FbvgFTr.jpg" /></figure><h4>However..</h4>.. It’s actually more complicated than it looks.I have this sheldonic tendency of thinking people disagreeing with me on trivial things being automatically wrong; however, I often stand corrected. This is one of those times :) After consulting a number of people who disagreed with me, trying to hold my initial disgust in this barbaric act of “muralic paper” (Are you crazy?!? It gets dirty just before touching your butt!) I realized there are cases where that configuration can actually do better.<ul><li>If you have a cat, the cat will likely like to play with the paper.</li><li>If you have a son, say his name is Sebastian . I don’t have any experimental proof that a daughter would yield the same results. Please comment to provide further data points.</li><li>There might be other occasions where this might be true (eg, windy location, gravity working against you, lot of liquid close to the precious paper, ..). Please contribute with your own experience.</li></ul><h4>Conclusions</h4>In this factious article, I took a dilemma, showed the solution, and then showed that the solution can fail due to .<pre># This is the perfect solution which works for my home. my_home: bath_ricc: toilet_paper_position: pendens bath_kids: toilet_paper_position: muralis</pre>I believe after reading this, you will be a more complete human. You’re welcome 🤣<img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=8da0504d6d0b" width="1" height="1" alt="">

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content: "There’s very little on this planet as polarizing as “the right position
 of toilet paper”: what I call cis-centralis /pendens, or trans-centralis/murālis?
 (yup, I just made those up — start googling \U0001F479).<figure><img alt=\"\"
 src=\"https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*APk8AVbLtK9dn6VYwNIv_w.png\" /><figcaption>A
 puffin trying to find the right position to his toilet paper</figcaption></figure>As
 a <a href=\"https://rubyonrails.org/\">Ruby on Rails</a> developer, I’ve been long
 interested in <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_over_configuration\">Default
 over Configuration</a> (and <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishment\">POLA</a>).
 What is the default/correct solution? I thought I knew.. until I got married.<pre>myhome: 
 \ bath_ricc: toilet_paper_position: &#39;?!?&#39; # looking for a golden
 default.. bath_kids: toilet_paper_position: &#39;?!?&#39; # must clearly
 be the same golden default!</pre><h4>The official Solution</h4>The inventor of
 toilet paper patented the solution in 1891 (patent <a href=\"https://patents.google.com/patent/US459516\">US459516</a>,
 apparently Seth Wheeler was a Googler ante litteram).<figure><img alt=\"Wheeler
 took good time to describe how to extract the paper, piece by piece. Wow!\" src=\"https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/500/0*SR7pztID9FbvgFTr.jpg\"
 /></figure><h4>However..</h4>.. It’s actually more complicated than it looks.I
 have this sheldonic tendency of thinking people disagreeing with me on
 trivial things being automatically wrong; however, I often stand corrected. This
 is one of those times :) After consulting a number of people who disagreed with
 me, trying to hold my initial disgust in this barbaric act of “muralic paper” (Are
 you crazy?!? It gets dirty just before touching your butt!) I realized there
 are cases where that configuration can actually do better.<ul><li>If you have
 a cat, the cat will likely like to play with the paper.</li><li>If
 you have a son, say his name is Sebastian . I don’t have any experimental
 proof that a daughter would yield the same results. Please comment to provide further
 data points.</li><li>There might be other occasions where this might be true (eg,
 windy location, gravity working against you, lot of liquid close to the precious
 paper, ..). Please contribute with your own experience.</li></ul><h4>Conclusions</h4>In
 this factious article, I took a dilemma, showed the solution, and then showed that
 the solution can fail due to .<pre># This is the perfect solution which works
 for my home. my_home: bath_ricc: toilet_paper_position: pendens 
 \ bath_kids: toilet_paper_position: muralis</pre>I believe after reading
 this, you will be a more complete human. You’re welcome \U0001F923<img src=\"https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=8da0504d6d0b\"
 width=\"1\" height=\"1\" alt=\"\">"

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