burned

* either that or the wrapper would have caught fire and burned the whole terminal down.

But there's too much dry brush and weeds cluttering up their mandates and it needs to be burned out.

The wave team burned too much money too fast. And we were still working too slowly to get explosive user growth.

I lost my mojo and was burned out. Not long after I changed jobs, got recharged, and was at it again.

They had burned through $700k already and hadn't built anything yet. It was becoming clear that my product was going to be their product.

Only a few years ago I had a lot of respect for them as a company but they've pretty much burned it all away.

I didn't get tired, burned out, or anything. Another summer had me working at a company making "apps" for 40 hours a week, and it fucking drained me...

He died, penniless, of pneumonia after sleeping bundled in wet newspapers in the ruins of his house that burned down. But his music just left the solar system."

I burned the bridge at that point, and became fairly jaded to the whole process. Get salary info up from, if what you want is near the top of any range they give drop it and move on theres no oppertunity for advancement.

They certainly don't trust their own employees and they still got burned by Snowden! The NSA might not be looking at your data until you do something terroristy, but who else could have access to the NSA's data-stores?

Amazingly, because cork it's such a great insulator burned cork trees survive the fires and develop very easily. You've mostly lost the cork production though...

This guy tells him that he's burned through 1GB of e-mail in few months and that just doesn't add up to Bill. Either this reporter receives an order-of-magnitude more e-mails than Bill does or people have 1MB pictures in their signature blocks or something.

Turned out it was the 'power saving' setting on the PC. To save a couple of watts it slowed down the CPU, and screwed up a furnace that burned megawatts. Probably wasted more electricity in a day than the 'power save' feature saved in the whole US for a year.

Bleary, burned-out, sleep-deprived, stimulant-addled engineers do not produce decent code no matter how many hours you make them stay at their desks. Obviously.

It's kind of questionable that a one-paragraph throwaway rant like this has hit the front page of HN. But if that indicates that a lot of people around here have burned their facebook accounts, or are planning to, that would be a hopeful sign for civilization.

A lot of people have been burned here. All of these take away from the promise and excitement of Rails for many people -- which was not simply "oh we can be on the cutting edge of technology," but "oh, we can have a sexy app with decent functionality up in a matter of a couple weeks with half the budget of what we thought."

'Between the crashed helicopter, burned animal stalls, and bullet marks everywhere, I can safely say I will not be utilizing AirBnB again - the place is completely trashed', Haddad told us"

After a handful of times of getting burned, I've come to interpret any official executive statement on values or culture as a sign that things are seriously screwed or about to become that way, and that it's time to bail out. To me, culture is something that happens organically and not via directive.

By then the speculators will have been burned so badly that they'll stay far away, so it'll quietly gain adoption in the background, and then eventually become the new currency of choice when inflation starts to make it's way through current fiat currencies.

As a direct result of making money off of the activities of people in the game, Blizzard made the following game inhibiting decisions: * Penalizing players for dying for longer and longer periods of time * Limiting in-game communication systems severely * Penalizing players for playing in groups I could go on, but the bottom line was this: Activision put profit over gameplay and burned one of the best franchises in the history of gaming for little profit. The game was absolutely atrocious as a direct result of the goddamn auction house.

I burned myself out once and it took at least 12 years to regain full productivity. Don't do it. * More broadly, the best and most creative work comes from a root of joy and excitement. If you lose your ability to feel joy and excitement about programming-related things, you'll be unable to do the best work. That this issue is separate from and parallel to burnout! If you are burned out, you might still be able to feel the joy and excitement briefly at the start of a project/idea, but they will fade quickly as the reality of day-to-day work sets in. Alternatively, if you are not burned out but also do not have a sense of wonder, it is likely you will never get yourself started on the good work.