beguiling

X and keeping the steps/compromises in order can be beguiling.

It is infamously spending time in my basement beguiling my kids who love the games.

For sure, UTC is a beguiling trap for a programmer-oriented view of the world.

This was a fun and beguiling little read. I noticed more ideological leaks forming in the article the further I read.

It's a beguiling idea. Even realising that production costs for ebooks aren't any lower, I still baulk at ebook pricing.

We've certainly found that it's beguiling to want to add all the feature requests in, but sticking to our guns and making our core features work even better has proven a good method for us. One of our rules is: can it be hacked together?

Analogies about proximity are beguiling but misleading. They’re all hat and no cattle.

This is the beguiling thing about mathematics: it is right there on the page in front of you, yet often so far from your grasp. How could a statement said so simply as "a^n + b^n = c^n has no solutions for n > 2" be so difficult to reason about?

Local maxima are dangerously beguiling, we should always question.

I guess it's beguiling, because criticism of this form is so much easier than genuine creation. I think many of the critics don't consciously realize this, since they've never created something of great worth, and have no idea how difficult it is.

For me, the beguiling aspects of entrepreneurship are financial independence and personal freedom. I can't figure out the author's motivation for writing that piece.

If anything, infinitesimals in their various guises carry a certain explanatory heft, and are quite beguiling little creatures if you take the time to get to know them. I'd be happy to elaborate or leave a few links here if anybody is interested.

Interesting, because I remember when I first read Fellowship aged 11 or 12 I was absolutely sure that Bombadil would turn out to be a bad one, beguiling and leading the Hobbits to their doom, for much the reasons outlined by the author. I was pretty sure when they went to be in his conttage that night, they wouldn't be waking up to a happy morning.

And I find the overall idea of it quite beguiling from an outlaw/risky/renegade POV. But I can't help but feel it's still massively irresponsible from both a public safety and environmental perspective. It's one thing to drive your car into a tree in the middle of nowhere at 120mph, quite another if you drive it into someone else obeying the speed limit and going about their day.

We can hum the themes to one-another, and reminisce about our youth beguiling away many an afternoon absorbed in the stories of these virtual worlds. But if the stories were procedurally generated, or the music, or any other "hook" that will be remembered by the player, the shared experience is suddenly lost.

There's a bit of research that backs this kind of pattern up: people who are younger, unmarried, don't have children are more likely to experience burnout: > To me, the most beguiling data to emerge from burnout research are the profiles of the people who experience it most acutely. In her early work, for instance, Maslach found that younger people burn out more often than older people, a finding that turns up again and again both here and abroad.

The actual text of the Voynich is also much more beguiling to a Western audience. Nova N 176 may be written in an undeciphered language, but, to someone who cannot read any scripts from the Chinese family, it looks completely indistinguishable from any other old Chinese/Korean/Japanese/Mongolian/Vietnamese/etc text, all of which are also completely indistinguishable from each other.

As a reader, I think Amazon helps me a lot on the quality information about books I might want to read, as it posts reader reviews and includes those beguiling "Readers who bought this also bought" links frequently to guide me to books I haven't heard about before. On the whole, as a reader who has been reading for half a century, I like the ecosystem for readers better since Amazon came along than I liked it before Amazon came along.