desperation

And how lucky and privileged you are and what desperation does to people.

In desperation, the CEO opened the drawer and pulled out letter #2.

One person called me in desperation for a ride to work because their car had been 'stolen.

" I know that a lot of people out there believe in this "desperation leads to solution" mantra.

In desperation one of my colleagues writes a script to recursively go through the unpacked version of the app and check the md5sums of all the files.

"The fact that I am not doing that is a mixture of my willingness to clean toilets to learn the craft I love and a market desperation for developers.

The sheer desperation in his voice was almost enjoyableThe first time I sent my resume out to recruiters, my phone rang nearly continuously for two days.

Give these kids back their parents, reduce the desperation of extreme poverty their families experience, and give them quality education.

I think it's pretty obvious that "Promoted Posts" are not the answer to Facebook's revenue problem, but their desperation to make it work says a lot about the lack of options that they have.

But a variety of syntactic sugar hacks, weird constructor stuff, and general desperation to be a class-based language have sullied what would otherwise be an elegant mechanism.

I'm going to go out on a limb and register a slight discomfort with the increasing use of HN as a "court of public opinion" in very fact-bound disputes like this one. I can sort of see resorting to it out of desperation, but I'm afraid the Internet Lynch Mob has a very high ratio of outrage to effort spent actually investigating.