Fail in a sentence as a verb

* Are you going to get ridiculed for failing?

Not in a fiscal sense, but in an ethical sense, and that's the worst type of failure there is.

It won't be fun or lucrative to work for one that fails, so you're trying to predict which ones will succeed.

The company can fail, but if you come out of it better than you came in, you still succeeded.

I write this so you can angrily tell me that I'm wrong: tell me what's so bad about a tech startup failing in 2012?

You devote time and energy to a technology only to have it fail when you need it most.

If you fail to do that, you have learned absolutely nothing from my experience in the past 22 years.

Then I'd like to suggest those people have standing to at least commiserate with the founder of a failed startup.

"Charlie didn't make $20M for cooking, he made $20M for taking the risk that the company he was joining would fail"Maybe.

The best way to prevent burnout is to follow up a serious failure with doing small things that you know are going to work.

Choosing Ember over Backbone isn't going to cause your project to fail; building the wrong thing or failing to finish, however, will.

The amount of privilege built into this "painful failure" is disquieting.

I learned that most startups fail, and that when they fail, the people who end up doing well are the ones who were looking out for their own interests all along.

I like to be reassured that a company will, in the long term, fail when its products are cynically designed to manipulate.

[1]Finally, if you did not apply the goto fail update a few days ago, it's trivial to break that TLS channel and also "misconfigure" those keys.

Maybe we're all standing around worried but nobody says anything because it would ruin our carefully tended never-fail image.

I don't see how the administration can fail to disavow them, investigate them fully, and hold their instigators accountable.

We should be throwing the bums out-- from Obama down to the local state congresspeople or local sheriffs and judges who fail to take actions overturning this, or who themselves participate in this.

I remember reading this published insight[1] from Marissa Mayer a few months ago:Burnout is caused by resentmentWhich sounded amazing, until this guy who dated a neuroscientist commented[2]:No. Burnout is caused when you repeatedly make large amounts of sacrifice and or effort into high-risk problems that fail.

More than anything else, this describes an appalling failure at every level of the company's technical infrastructure to ensure even a basic degree of engineering rigor and fault tolerance.

On the heels of the failure of a project where I have spent weeks building up for, I will quickly force myself to do routine molecular biology, or general lab tasks, or a repeat of an experiment that I have gotten to work in the past.

Fail definitions

verb

fail to do something; leave something undone; "She failed to notice that her child was no longer in his crib"; "The secretary failed to call the customer and the company lost the account"

See also: neglect

verb

be unsuccessful; "Where do today's public schools fail?"; "The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably"

See also: miscarry

verb

disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake; "His sense of smell failed him this time"; "His strength finally failed him"; "His children failed him in the crisis"

See also: betray

verb

stop operating or functioning; "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident"

See also: break

verb

be unable; "I fail to understand your motives"

verb

judge unacceptable; "The teacher failed six students"

verb

fail to get a passing grade; "She studied hard but failed nevertheless"; "Did I fail the test?"

See also: flunk bomb

verb

fall short in what is expected; "She failed in her obligations as a good daughter-in-law"; "We must not fail his obligation to the victims of the Holocaust"

verb

become bankrupt or insolvent; fail financially and close; "The toy company went bankrupt after the competition hired cheap Mexican labor"; "A number of banks failed that year"

verb

prove insufficient; "The water supply for the town failed after a long drought"

verb

get worse; "Her health is declining"