Usefulness used in a sentence

Usefulness in a sentence as a noun

Anyone who is willing to sacrifice the usefulness of the last 30 years of proprietary tech to make a point has to be a bit barmy. But who else will make that point?

TED's usefulness to people is the trust in the brand and the trust in their curation quality - if this is lost TED's main mission has failed. In my opinion, TED has already lost this trust.

LinkedIn is just a tool - it's usefulness depends on what your current needs are. It's useless today and useful tomorrow.

The big question is: can Airbnb close those holes without significantly reducing the usefulness of their service? I very much doubt that.

Clearly, you think this reduced usefulness is worth it to reduce fights; fair enough. So, is there any way of getting back the utility, without increasing the fights?

As great as it is, it's no Scheme, if only for the fact that its popularity and usefulness as a language detracts from the underlying concepts. I have to think Brian Harvey fought this change, had he not retired and lost some influence."

So I didn't trade usefulness for constant meetings. Thought that was important to add, I'd feel differently if I didn't have a useful, interesting and rewarding job at a BigCo...

The difference between a trick and a technology, of course, is usefulness. Can your software do something useful, or is it solely aimed at deceiving people into believing it does?

Automated tests were written based on what the "test devs" had time for, not on the need or usefulness of such tests for the actual code. I was hired as a "test dev" - I had no industry experience at the time and figured I would give it an unprejudiced try to see if I liked it.

Removing points hasn't merely reduced HN's usefulness for me, it's put it in an entirely different category. This used to be a place for me to skim and read an entire thread, top-to-bottom, and provide insight where appropriate.

I don't think anybody disputes the usefulness of higher sampling rates when recording. > In theory, it's true that the human hear can't hear above ~18kHz, but it can hear the influence of the very high pitch harmonics on a lower frequency.

Obviously, the usefulness of being able to answer "factor one hundred" is questionable, but W|A solved it out of Stephen Wolfram's aspiration to be able to "compute everything". Right now, this is just a programming language you can run on the web.

It certainly does not form, in itself, a full "methodology for data protection", but nothing in the article justifies that has lost any usefulness in its current form.

While I understand the rhetorical usefulness of calling copyright infringement stealing, it's simply not accurate and nitpickers will be right. Again, they may also be annoying, myopic, or outright stupid, but they will be correct.

Besides which, I think its fair to withdraw a like from something if you believe its outlived its usefulness. If Id liked a ballot measure that failed to pass, for example, I dont think it would be in any way dishonorable to stop following it now, even if I still completely supported its aims.

Unfortunately, you can't use either Kalman filters or modern Bayesian network solvers, which somewhat limits the usefulness of this approach. Basically, it will scale to lots of data points, but not to complex Bayesian networks.

The evidence he presents against the usefulness of cardio for weight loss compares a group of weightlifters against a group of runners who ran only 20km per week and they still lost marginally more weight than the weightlifters! Cardio really should be a minimum of an hour per day, at least 5 days a week if weight control is the goal.

FP is becoming the new OOP. People who don't understand its original meaning are misinterpreting it and incorrectly expounding its usefulness. Newcomers are not grasping how it fits into the bigger picture.

As a corollary, the exercise of liberty does not require a justification, because it's a liberty, practicality or "usefulness" or what-have-you play no part in it. It's onerous to require someone to justify their right to look at porn.

They're like little mini-compilers and their usefulness is difficult to appreciate but beautiful to behold. For a good example look at [0] where baggers has implemented a Lisp-like language that actually compiles to an OpenGL shader program.

Your usefulness as a developer is only indirectly related to your ability to code. There are bona fide geniuses working in poverty and obscurity, there are utterly mediocre programmers doing amazingly useful and important work.

- modifying the working directory is an expected result; of debatable usefulness, namely in the face of the behaviour of hg/monotone/darcs/other_dvcs_predating_git, but again not intrinsically bad. - pausing to review others' work is needed for a merge, again an expected behaviour on git pull - making it hard to rebase against a remote branch is good.