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Strange to see my 1994 hack at #1 on hacker news twenty years later. .

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Quick take

coming at a subsequent time or stage; "without ulterior argument"; "the mood posterior to"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of later gathered in one view.

adjective

coming at a subsequent time or stage; "without ulterior argument"; "the mood posterior to"

adjective

at or toward an end or late period or stage of development; "the late phase of feudalism"; "a later symptom of the disease"; "later medical science could have saved the child"

adverb

happening at a time subsequent to a reference time; "he apologized subsequently"; "he's going to the store but he'll be back here later"; "it didn't happen until afterward"; "two hours after that"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for later.

adjective

coming at a subsequent time or stage; "without ulterior argument"; "the mood posterior to"

adjective

at or toward an end or late period or stage of development; "the late phase of feudalism"; "a later symptom of the disease"; "later medical science could have saved the child"

adverb

happening at a time subsequent to a reference time; "he apologized subsequently"; "he's going to the store but he'll be back here later"; "it didn't happen until afterward"; "two hours after that"

See also: subsequently, afterwards, afterward, after

adverb

at some eventual time in the future; "By and by he'll understand"; "I'll see you later"

adverb

comparative of the adverb `late'; "he stayed later than you did"

Example sentences

Strange to see my 1994 hack at #1 on hacker news twenty years later. .

That ends up being ~500 words of first draft, ~1,000 words of later revisions. In the past 309 days, I've finished 12 chapters.

Almost 20 years later, I get a call from him. He says the program isn't working so well and he wants to upgrade.

He later let me know that what I'd said had killed the CFO's interest in me. I later saw in the paper that they'd hired someone else, who was reporting to the CFO. Best of luck to them.

A week later the layoffs started. The lesson here isn't that there's something intangible or magic about free sodas or coffee.

If you hit someone with enough felony counts sooner or later something can snap. This in response to those that claim the DOJ didn't have anything to do with Aaron killing himself.

Like tptacek says below, this will not meaningfully hurt your chances of creating a business later. You've likely learned plenty through the experience.

I worked at Amazon from before Steve left to sometime later. I remember being excited when Larry Tessler was hired, and dismayed at the way he was treated.

A week later the office was ablaze with "so-and-so being groomed as successor" rumours. At a certain point you stop being able to just act like a regular person and have everything turn out fine.

I can't stand the idea that I might be at my computer, working with code, and develop something independently which later causes me to get sued. Abolish all software patents.

Somehow, I did get back into it a few years later, but I never really became proficient at it. Again, I was good at learning the basics, reading code, messing around with code snippets on the command line.

During this call and in messages thereafter, he requested that I shut down the blog altogether or limit its access, and a few weeks later, suggested that I update the blog with a twist" of good news so as to complete[s] the story. If this is true it is downright appalling.

I never liked the fact that their schizophrenic content releases would appear during a timed window, only to disappear from my list later before I actually got a chance to watch it. I grew to avoid movies labeled with the Starz logo, and my heart would sink when a feature would open with one, because I knew the experience was fleeting and I wouldn't be able to enjoy the content later.

Guys, if someone dangled something in front of you with the initial impression that you could have one, and you wanted it, only later to find out that you actually can't have it and that those who could have it are "intelligent and witty", implying that you are not, then I think it's pretty safe to say that you'd run home, cook something similar up and run back to show that you have one now too. In fact, after reading the original article, I felt a bit slighted and thought to myself "fine, I'll just build it myself".