duds

This is why star performers at one company, turn out to be duds in another and vice versa.

They were all duds more or less and Microsoft was at risk of becoming completely irrelevant.

For every iPhone smash hit, he must've gone through tens or even hundreds of duds.

Jobs sense of aesthetics resulted in many great products but a few duds as well.

Or are trivial duds; you can't tell at the start, but you can hope.

They'll measure you, you give them a day, then come in for a second fitting, pick your new duds up the third day.

You don't have to pick the winners, you have to eliminate the duds.

Social media and the internet allows you to identify duds a mile away.

They are paid peanuts while the firms weed out the absolute duds.

There are gimmicky things about the Apple Watch like sending taps to people with watches but there are duds like that in every Apple product.

And there were quite a few duds along the way.

But those people spend literally years learning to compose shots, and hours after each photo session poring over thousands of duds to find the few gems.

I wouldn't have known what was meant by "Designer Duds." Duds can be used to mean clothes, so it almost sounds like an article about designer clothing...

I'm just not sure demanding code on a whiteboard during the interview itself is really a foolproof proxy for "smart and gets things done." I think it might weed out obvious duds but it might also weed out some people who might be having a bad day.

The original title 'Designer Duds: Losing Our Seat at the Table' was more insightful and less clickbaity.

I remember in college there was a chain (Duds -n- Suds?) that moved into town with really nice commercial equipment that server food while you did you laundry.