haphazard

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How can we be sure Google Drive won't be shuttered in less time?Google is very haphazard with their web properties.

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Quick take

dependent upon or characterized by chance; "a haphazard plan of action"; "his judgment is rather hit-or-miss"

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adjective

dependent upon or characterized by chance; "a haphazard plan of action"; "his judgment is rather hit-or-miss"

adjective

marked by great carelessness; "a most haphazard system of record keeping"; "slapdash work"; "slipshod spelling"; "sloppy workmanship"

adverb

without care; in a slapdash manner; "the Prime Minister was wearing a grey suit and a white shirt with a soft collar, but his neck had become thinner and the collar stood away from it as if it had been bought haphazard"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for haphazard.

adjective

dependent upon or characterized by chance; "a haphazard plan of action"; "his judgment is rather hit-or-miss"

adjective

marked by great carelessness; "a most haphazard system of record keeping"; "slapdash work"; "slipshod spelling"; "sloppy workmanship"

adverb

Example sentences

How can we be sure Google Drive won't be shuttered in less time?Google is very haphazard with their web properties.

His office tried to retest evidence from Salvador's cases, but the results were haphazard, Weeks told the Hunstville Item.

Note that they do not contradict bitcoin, except perhaps in the haphazard and sometimes too fast adoption.

Part of the reason why this seemingly disorganized and haphazard collection of buildings makes a working and thriving metropolis is because of its diversity and resilience to change and progress.

A lack of guidance is not bad in and of itself - C offers no guidance and no guarantees, and is fit for many tasks - but combined with so many haphazard features and mind-boggling complexity, it becomes a liability rather than an asset.

If you'd happily accept a sub-market wage to be taught laboratory research techniques, in a piecemeal and haphazard fashion, by sleep-deprived world experts equipped with state-of-the-artish equipment, engineering graduate school is the game for you.

Not with revolutionary technology, not with some alternate and hugely more cost effective programs, but merely with applying proven and existing systems and technologies in a sensible way instead of the haphazard way we have done so the last 4 decades or so.

I was surprised that ray tracing in Pixar\n was historically a clunky, haphazard process.\n I always thought of it as this smooth, polished\n machine like something you would see at an Apple store.\n\nLife inside the sausage factory never quite looks like what outsiders would expect.

It definitely feels like much of this post is presented in an overly negative perspective aimed at the startup, when in fact some of this may have come down to the employee not realizing what working for an early stage company entails, namely how haphazard some parts of it may be.

While I have encountered OP's situation often, even more often I've encountered the consequences of haphazard design for those very same projects that "shipped fast": two guys in a back room refactoring for six weeks so that -- please please dear God -- we can get our bug rates down and start shipping features "like we used to.