Accustomed used in a sentence

Accustomed in a sentence as an adjective

It's distasteful, but I'm accustomed to it here on the internet, where every engineer who read a Rand novel got the idea that he was John Galt. So it goes.

I'm accustomed to popular blog blowhards repeating the "you can't write code on an iPad" mantra, but I expect better here. We all know you can write code on an iPad, right?

The users are none the wiser, they have been accustomed to this interface and don't really care if its some website or google providing the wizard. The portal approach wins, the web returns to the dark ages.

Their role-models are their parents, or their neighbors who have basically grown accustomed to living in poverty and can offer no guidance. And I can go on and on.

If you're accustomed to thinking of security in this all-or-nothing way, the Chrome team's argument makes sense. And the state of the Internet encourages this kind of thinking.

Make sure you take a real hard look at all of your expenses; people that aren't accustomed to this style of living often have expenses that they believe they must have. At one point, my expenses were literally: food, and gas for the car.

People tend to think of online communities as democracies where the freedoms they're accustomed to from their normal lives apply. So when a post gets deleted by a moderator, people tend to think of it as a freedom of speech issue.

Were they so entrenched in the Microsoft way of doing things that they were accustomed to a shitty user experience? Or did the aesthetically minded engineer have his voice drowned out by the bureaucracy?

It constantly shows code and uses jargon that the general programmer probably isn't accustomed with. It barely seems to appeal to veteran Lisp programmers because there's little depth and lots of the aforementioned fluff.

If you can start early in life getting people accustomed to living in surveillance society then in future it'll be a lot easier to roll these things out to the larger populace."

Otherwise, you risk subtly prejudicing a reader that has grown accustomed to the original meaning of the greying-out. Either way, I'd advocate for a "showpending" toggle for users with under 1000 karma.

The reviewer was so accustomed to their existing browser simply blocking pop-ups that it didn't occur to them that the pop-ups were caused by the pages they were visiting, and instead thought it was some Chrome monetization strategy! Because of this, the feature was scrapped at the last second.

I don't doubt Feal, but the appearance argument doesn't carry much heft today; more to the point is that we are simply accustomed to the style. This is the real story here I think: people invented the rule to suit their preferences, but over time we've forgotten the rule's origin and now treat it like a holy truth.

Some time ago -- perhaps a few years ago or a bit more -- I became accustomed to fairly quickly paging several pages into the search results, where the heaviest, highly ranked spam would start to filter out and I could start to recognize more legitimate sources of information. These days...

It was a position I wasn't accustomed to, so I immediately felt a lack of boundaries and sense of control. But the Django documentation was really good, and I soon gained an understanding of everything I needed to learn -- Python, running Apache, configuring Django, wiring up Mysql.

Because health insurance is now commonly provided by employers because of World War II price controls, and because we have become accustomed to using health insurance to pay for all matter of health care, including routine visits, consumers are often ignorant of health care costs. Customer A: My insurance will pay?

Not to put to fine a point on it, but if your user is on iOS or OS X, they are accustomed to losing sight of their progress because, as the article says, "Apple knows best." Going out of your way as a content author to correct for the user interface quirks of the reader's preferred reading environment seems extraordinary and unnecessary.

She's completely right: >Dump her in a situation that operates on different social scripts than she's accustomed to, full of people talking about a subject she doesn't yet understand. Then tell her the community is hostile toward women and therefore doesn't have enough of them, all while showing her off like a prize poodle so you can feel good about recruiting a females This explains, better than I ever could, why I've always felt weird about all of the attention on getting women into programming.

Here's the problem in a nut shell as I see it: if systemd had been the default in Linux for the last ten years, probably the tool chain around it would be mature enough to meet everyone's needs, we would all be accustomed to the specific commands needed to control and interact with and debug systemd stuff, and if someone came along and proposed replacing everything with a syslog daemon and a pile of init scripts, there'd be rage and outcry. That is to say, I don't see anything inherently bad about systemd.

The basic issue is whether people in free countries, like most readers of Hacker News, are going to be able to enjoy the right of free speech throughout their country, on any subject, or whether any American or Dutch person or other person accustomed to free speech who happens to be within reach of attack by a crazy foreign person has to prepare for war just to continue to exercise free speech. On my part, I'm going to continue to comment on public policy based on verifiable facts and reason and logic, even if that seems offensive.