Gobs in a sentence as a noun

It is cheap, but not infinite, and oh-so-easy to chew through gobs.

But how do you make gobs of money when your only marketable skill involves writing blog posts?" I feel this way all the time!

It built and sold unsexy products that people were willing to pay gobs of money for. I'm sure many businesses would love to fail so successfully.

I wasn't expected to write gobs of code, I wasn't expected to manage systems. I was just expected to do what was asked of me, and take ownership of it.

In order to do like the Japanese and punch a line down rough land, you have to spend gobs of cash and years of effort. With tight budgets and a booming national debt, it isn't really an option.

And it doesn't just light up the room, you have to fling gobs of luminous paint all around to reveal platforms in an otherwise dark room. And it's not just a ball at a time, each gob also trails lesser speckles that also help out.

And if they’re making money mainly by collecting gobs of personal data, I think you have a right to be worried. And you should really understand what’s happening to that data.

Edit: To put it a little more kindly, if startups without viable business models keep getting gobs of money maybe the problem isn't the startup!

I have no idea why tech companies would pay engineers gobs of money, spend gobs of money on huge office campuses, then inflict open plan or cubicles on said engineers. A firm is a hierarchy, and this is a form of social control.

They run at 1-2GHZ while paired with fast RAM that's not that much slower than their CPUs. They don't need to devote gobs and gobs of transistors to speculative execution and branch prediction and cache. But all that changes if you want to scale an ARM chip up to perform like a "desktop-class" Intel chip.

If you're a photographer with gobs of high resolution photos Dropbox is perfect for you, but I imagine that is a niche pain point. What is a much bigger opportunity is a way that easily lets groups share music and movies.

Alternative headline: Google passes Microsoft's market value as Microsoft gives gobs of cash to shareholders rather than hold onto it to inflate market value. Still, it's a significant thing I suppose.

I have no idea why tech companies would pay engineers gobs of money,[1] spend gobs of money on huge office campuses,[2] then inflict open plan or cubicles on said engineers. [1] Office space is expensive, but not that expensive relative to an engineer's salary.

They have no apparent direction or higher thinking, they just make solidly good devices and throw gobs of money at marketing. It's bizarre - in spite of their devices and a reputation for quality gear, they still act like a cheap Korean knock-off company instead of a market leader.

And the "ups" that "became outs", so to speak, are people who are of such strong personal conviction that they turned down gobs of money in 2007 from Google to, say, take a riskier position at Facebook or do their own thing. In those cases, it's unlike more gobs of money from Yahoo in 2012 will convince them to jump ship, unless Marissa can offer things to recruits that she couldn't offer to recruits at Google.

I suggest that the "first submitter gets all the karma" situation means that people submit without thinking, worried that unless they do so they will miss out on that one item that earns gobs of karma, that they saw first, but didn't submit quickly enough. Just sharing the karma between submitters won't work, because then if someone sees something gaining traction they just submit it themselves and share in the imaginary profits.

And gobs upon gobs of Javascript that does very little but is constantly running, checking input boxes, animating every tiny little detail, doing things that can be done without Javascript, etc. I have better system performance when running a Windows 7 VM, a semi-bulky image editor, or compiling the kernel than I do with a few bulky webapps in Firefox.

Gobs definitions

noun

a large number or amount; "made lots of new friends"; "she amassed stacks of newspapers"