astonishment

Edit: okay, that wasn't the author's intention, and the consistency argument is a good one (least astonishment and all that).

Actual milliners gape in astonishment as a SV startup selling nothing but virtual digital hats is acquired for $350 million.

Re-opened to test in Chrome on Ubuntu (XPS13dev) and to my astonishment, touch events worked!

The article describes placing a ball at the top of a hill, and conveys a sort of perplexed astonishment that it reaches the bottom without needing any additional pushing.

I received my order and to my astonishment it looked nothing like the picture over the counter.

It looks more like a mix of disbelief, surprise, and astonishment to me.

Can be used to express agreement, astonishment, realization, understanding, questioning depending on intonation and stress.

Please remember context here - I was responding to someone who claims astonishment that OM could be considered difficult to understand.

We started looking at Trinet in parallel and to our astonishment found that the comparable health plans, from the same provider, available on Trinet, were significantly cheaper...

This is about time and money, and I don't think any amount of astonishment from the larger community is going to reverse that trend.

My astonishment at the time was that such a simple modeling tool isn't available in any app store (maybe today, couldn't find anything a year or so ago).

I still re-call my astonishment when I realized that neither of their two different server-impls at the time would pass even most basic tests (e.g.

This is what the "Death by astonishment" quote of the same author, refers to.

At the human layer, one expression of this idea is the principle of least astonishment: "People are part of the system.

If you have any experience in most other programming languages this would seem to violate principle of least astonishment (see "wat").

So why the "astonishment" at SF's budget being only twice that of Idaho?

A better term might be it seems to violate the Law of Least Astonishment, but from the hacker perspective instead: I have a device that's really just spoofing acting like a storage device.