Boneheaded in a sentence as an adjective

But that doesn't mean they won't receive bad PR, lost sales, and a public backlash based on a boneheaded policy.

Wow. I love AirBnB, and I hate to say it, but that was a completely boneheaded move. There is absolutely no doubt that EJ is very public on this issue.

Do something boneheaded like this, get some exposure. Take flak from users that don't necessarily matter, and hope to score a lot more users.

It's personally grating to me that they take such a boneheaded tack to content in the 21st century. Did they learn nothing from expertsexchange?

Phrasing my comment the way I did was a boneheaded thing to do. It currently reads like an elaborate form of trolling, as if I'm snubbing non-Americans.

Which would be even more boneheaded than just falling for her innocently. From reading the texts he sent from the airport, and the calculations he scratched out on paper at the same time, it seems that this is actually what he was thinking.

Yeah, this was a really boneheaded platform decision, and I'll be very frustrated if Apple doesn't fix it. But you can't seriously tell me that open-source software doesn't sometimes make blunders or suffer from flawed usability.

She's playing this part of the story for humor, but one imagines that a non-brain-damaged candidate could immediately correct for that boneheaded move." Wow. I'm so embarrassed.

I estimate that I've lost a few hundred photos due to this boneheaded design. Picasa comes close but is useless when it comes to intelligently syncing a canonical "cloud" copy of each photo to a variety of devices linked to the account.

Both to get the benefit of letting the compiler do the work of weeding out boneheaded errors and to get rid of unnecessary flexibility that just leads to more work and more confusing, hard to read code. Java is a great language in which you can be very productive.

Now I think Prezi should probably have paid him anyway because that's a pretty boneheaded error and I'd be very grateful if someone politely pointed it out to me... but they aren't obligated to.

I'm sure that's how the executives in charge of this boneheaded decision explain it to themselves, but try applying just a pinch of real world logic to that thought and it shrivels like a slug under salt. Do you really think that people who have been forced to start working in the office under threat of termination are going to form a positive, collegial bond?

Sure, ultimately it's the parents' fault, in a way, for letting him use fallible computer systems, and that in itself is probably a good lesson, but Google most certainly shares the blame here for boneheaded policies that don't even give parents the option of interceding. And the reason is the same as Google's reason always is: it was easier for Google.

The real lesson here is a hidden one for YCombinator startups: YC gives you money, but they apparently do not provide you with advisors, handlers, lawyers or PR people who will intervene to stop you from making such a boneheaded, potentially explosive move, nor step in and help you figure out how to gracefully recover from a mistake. Seriously?

Boneheaded definitions

adjective

(used informally) stupid