Mess in a sentence as a noun

The Unix APIs for doing the same thing are a mess.

The message is clear: you need to work 90 hours a week and either be the next Dropbox or flame out.

Disclaimer: VLC dev and VideoLAN chairmanI think the worse part of all this mess is that Google refuses to act and stop those.

If you don't understand git, then don't mess around with 'rebase', 'push -f', or any other command that tries to edit history.

His diplomacy here, as well as with Bethesda, has been stellar: Not "Steam is a DRM-ridden mess that I wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole, bwa ha ha!

Knowing Steve, he will go after some of our top Mac talent…Jobs sounds like a Grade-A *******, along with every other player involved in this mess.

When software -- or idea-ware for that matter -- fails to be accessible to anyone for any reason, it is the fault of the software or of the messaging of the idea.

They're the guys who go off and make algorithms they think are blazing fast, and sure for one tiny little use maybe, but then when you actually see the code it's a huge convolute mess for nothing.

Mess in a sentence as a verb

This bodes well for the prospect of navigating out of this whole mess successfully since on the whole we seem to have good instincts about what is trustworthy and what is untrustworthy.

And their operations are a mess; they don't really have SREs and they make engineers pretty much do everything, which leaves almost no time for coding - though again this varies by group, so it's luck of the draw.

The european populace is going to be scratching its head wondering why the **** they're denying flights into their airspace at the behest of people who apparently spend all their time spying on them?Seems like a complete and utter mess to me.

It means missing out on a certain class of submissions, but those are mostly a mess these days anyway because they get filled with people talking about the automatic title change and people confused about why the link was submitted and upvoted.

It sucks that you have been acting in good faith and doing good work and have gotten tangled in the mess that is the many layers of laws, regulations, and corporate policies that make up our modern immigration, taxation, and financial systems.

Its like 4chan discussing politics, just a complete mess always on the attack...but at least when thanks comes its usually really good, for example this year I got a hand made Christmas card from the Indonesian Fishing Association for getting a reporter in touch with them.

You will have a business mess because it will be very easy to conclude you did this maliciously, and you're now one Hacker News post away from having a customer run your name through the mud and for the next several months, 7 out of the top 10 results on any Google search for your company's name will be that post and related ones.

Mess definitions

noun

a state of confusion and disorderliness; "the house was a mess"; "she smoothed the mussiness of the bed"

See also: messiness muss mussiness

noun

informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage"

See also: hole muddle pickle

noun

soft semiliquid food; "a mess of porridge"

noun

a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel

noun

a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax

noun

(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"

See also: batch

verb

eat in a mess hall

verb

make a mess of or create disorder in; "He messed up his room"