honing

You think that rice isn't produced by multi-billion dollar corporations that have spent decades honing their lobbying techniques?

The second bunch just keeps honing a better and better team, moving the team into high positions of leadership.

Zynga are extremely smart and dedicated about honing every single aspect of their games to enhance their addictiveness and virality.

Much better than honing your pallet to the taste of expensive wine is to learn to pair wines with food.

Don't think the people trying to manipulate you aren't evolving and honing their strategies.

Most of them don't have a business model centered around honing variable-reward reinforcement strategies to addict people and keep them hungry for more.

It is a simple arcade game that focuses on honing a single skill.

I feel like if I Just Read for reading's sake, I'm not honing the craft that's important to me.

At least with a coding test I'm honing skills that I'll use day to day.

This generally rings true for me, it is almost required for developers to be continuously learning and honing skills as new patterns, technologies, and tools emerge.

There are people who have been honing their Street Fighter skills for 15 years now; that makes it difficult for new players to participate on a casual basis.

However, if you're passionate about using those skills, you learn faster, easier, and you're more inclined to spend your time honing them and developing a deeper understanding.

Musicians and athletes are expected to spend long hours practicing, but CS programs have no concept of programming "practice" in the sense of hours spent repetitively honing a skill.

This is excellent advice specifically because it's not about "prepping for interviews"; honing these skills simply makes you more valuable to any company, and it's an aspect of your capabilities that you can show off in a decent interview process...

Honing that gut instinct and learning to market (as painful as it can be) seem to be the biggest things involved.