Cowboy used in a sentence

Cowboy in a sentence as a noun

Even the most cowboy of coders can see why always breaking others is bad. Baffling.

Is more powerful for the lone cowboy. It's going to be hard to convince a lot of them without really hitting a home-run on that one metric.

Perhaps software is going to settle down, start a family, and quit this cowboy nonsense. I don't think it'll happen by 2016, but I'd be hard pressed to say it won't happen ever.

The cowboy is only on level 2 and level 4 because his friend is the mosquitto." OK, whatever, nonsense but perhaps no more ridiculous than Pac Man.

Except in the most pathological cases of cowboy coding, it will take at least a day for minor changes. Changing, say, the page flow of your registration process will take a week to a month.

Whoa there, cowboy. Its a kickstarter that not only may or may not produce a working machine, but even if it does, I have to depend on their perpetual existence just to use said machine?

But we also have to fight cowboy-coding and design-pattern-gurus. We usually don't have to fight software managers though.

The whole "real machine" thing is just ridiculous cowboy posturing, unless you're doing video game development or something. A Macbook Air is just fine for web development.

On the **** side, cowboy coders hate a single addition of "process" even if that process is called Continuous Integration. They'll do whatever it takes to make sure they can continue to code like cowboys.

I find it fascinating that space cowboy fiction & steampunk exist. First, future tense nostalgia is an interesting concept.

The indian cowboy slur against Freshdesk is beyond ignorant. Especially for a technie.

For younger developers it's the cowboy who thinks they know more than they really know and will waste a lot of time reinventing wheels, chasing things already known not to work for provable reasons, etc.

When someone starts talking about a need to give good, self-disciplined devs a little freedom instead of micromanaging them to death the scrum zombies start shouting about "cowboy programmers". When someone starts talking about long-term or strategic planning they start screaming about "waterfall".

The truth is that an Iranian cowboy caught it with a lasso, in case any of you were wondering. Edit: Undeniable proof of this article's absurdity: "Even if that control signal is encrypted pattern recognition during many flights over four years would have given them enough information to break the code."

It seems that in our industry it is universally a code word for "We're about to exploit you because the project is understaffed and under budgeted for time and that is exactly as we planned it so you'd better cowboy up." Maybe it is different if you're writing Quake, but I guarantee you the 43rd best selling game that year also had programmers "encouraged onwards" by tales of the glory that awaited after the death march.