frantic

Because it is a solution in frantic search of a problem.

For those of us around during that time, it brings back memories of those frantic days.

Not Fortran, but beginning CS. When I get frantic I pick out my first Fortran book, or a later one, and look for a good example.

Finally, a frantic call was made to the retired printer who had worked with these presses for over 40 years.

My PM is on vacation this week and I've had to partially fill in. I have been getting frantic urgent emails from roughly 7 am till 1 am.

He wasn't responding, the two were frantic, and everybody was watching from the other side of the road.

A GAE user sees a problem of his service being slow, writes a frantic bug report with caps and exclamation marks and threatens to leave GAE.

It sits on the side of my TV stand completely unobtrusively, and if friends come over within 30 seconds we can be playing frantic, immersive games.

Heck, my big project today consists of frantic backpedaling from an overly hasty decision, prompted by the IHM, to use SQLite in a project that had no business being based on SQLite.

Always fun when you're developing against an API, and then have to perform a frantic investigation to work out if your latest code change broke everything... or it's just the API endpoint itself.

But time and again, the knowledge gets discarded because it's just easier to "work through the night" at a frantic pace, rather than take the necessary step back, let people rest and do the work in an orderly and planned manner.

If you catch someone with narcissistic personality disorder in a lie or situation where they've hurt someone and call them out on it, the response is usually bluster, a frantic attempt to shore up ego. If you catch someone with borderline personality disorder or just plain deep insecurity, they'll often deflate and get downcast.

College isn't taught this way. Colleges realize that even young adults can't handle 40 hours a week of continual instruction, why do we do this kids can?I think the reason, is that we're always behind other countries trying to "catch up"--50 years ago it was the Soviets, 20 years ago the Japanese, now it's the "global workforce".In our frantic rush to compete with everyone else we end up forcing an overambitious curriculum on kids.

And yet those with the courage to tread this path to real discovery are not only offered practically no guidance on how to do so, they are actively discouraged and have to set abut it in secret, pretending meanwhile to be diligently engaged in the frantic diversions and to conform with the deadening personal opinions which are continually being thrust upon them.

Code gets reviewed for production at 6am by a guy freshly rousted out of bed who committed some of it four hours earlier, and who is doing this at the insistence of a "frantic" colleague, the fix involves "a bunch of commits" from more than one person, and his main worry is that he might be held responsible for a hidden back door maliciously inserted by his coworker?