bittersweet

Thankfully, the death of dysfunctional organizations is a given in free markets -- perhaps even a reason for bittersweet celebration.

It is bittersweet that his obituary[1] contains open problems he hoped others would solve.

Yea, Patrick phrased it well when he said it's a bittersweet day for Stripe.

It will be interesting, and bittersweet, to watch how the internet evolves post-ads.

I'm enjoying this thread, albeit in a bittersweet way - its good to hear of a shared struggle but the solution is to get focused and stick with something.

And it's a bittersweet thought that as horrible as mental illness is, it might be what allows us to really understand the human mind.

I don't think anybody is being selfish, its bittersweet: Accolades for the AppJet team and disappointment that Etherpad will be killed.

Somewhat bittersweet to front-page Hacker News with a video about how we failed!

Your stories of family were enormously powerful & bittersweet.

While we're of course glad Balanced decided that migrating to Stripe was the best thing for their users, today is kinda bittersweet for us.

I've been living in Ireland for 2.5 years and was really excited to become a citizen, but am returning to the US for family reasons, which is bittersweet.

This piece, by the way, reads like an almost bittersweet reflection on how the lofty claims of science have run upon the rocks of sad reality and fallen all too short of their aspirations.

It is more bittersweet than a "success" story and is written by a book author.

From Wikipedia: "The species most commonly called nightshade in North America and Britain is Solanum dulcamara, also called bittersweet or woody nightshade.

Here, have a raise." But this is a cartoon specificially about deep magic: About the bittersweet joy of discovering something great that only the well-trained can understand.