half-assed

The half-assed actor project mentioned by the article is probably ActorFx - which is an interesting project with some cool ideas.

I mean that's not a bad idea, but when the implementation is so clearly a half-assed hack job, it's clear a more foundation-first approach must be done.

The half-assed design of the webpage indicates that Apple is probably not paying attention to it at all.

Our build scripts get tested a dozen times a day and cannot tolerate half-assed broken build scripts.

It sounds like you're just coming up with (half-assed) justifications for the moral superiority of information economies.

When you try to do both at the same time, you just end up doing each half-assed..and both will eventually fail.

Another reason to be careful is that there are too many half-assed solutions to problems that might not even be real.

Everything that was working great in WP8 has been replaced with half-assed implementations that feel more like second-rate Android OEM apps.

It stops your log from filling up with half-assed attempts to break in.

Usenet itself turned into a half-assed space-hogging brain dead file sharing network.

And we know what ISPs think of space-hogging half-assed stuff that doesn't make them money and risks getting them sued.

Cars slowing down as they pass to get a half-assed wash.

I've been kind of half-assed about "releasing" them so far, but yes!

Sort of like the way "cyberspace" was described in sci-fi as sort of like virtual reality or augmented reality or Project Xanadu, while in practice what we got is is a document layout format with a half-assed Scheme tacked on to spite Microsoft, what gets implemented is usually always the minimum viable product.

And even when those exploits are found, they're being "addressed" with half-assed solutions like requiring an upgrade via USB (never mind that if a remote attacker can hijack the brakes and transmission, of all things, an OTA upgrade should at least be possible).