millstone

They are more of a millstone from the past that research still drags with it because changing an institution is hard.

Triumph of the Will is still looked at as a millstone in cinema, and the soviets produced very memorable sculptural works such as The Motherland Calls to name two.

Notch has said that he wants to continue working but that he finds the millstone of Minecraft too weighty.

>They are more of a millstone from the past that research still drags with it because changing an institution is hard.

Of course, the millstone around the neck of nuclear power is that it's a dual-use technology.

That certain classes of loans create a permanent millstone seems, to me, a bit skewed.

I think the point is that whatever features it doesn't get will be a millstone around developers necks for years to come, much like the situation with IE6.

Personally I feel that with Swift instead of Objective-C I lost a millstone around my neck...

Morality helps me achieve the things I value; it's not a millstone around my neck.

Not easy with that debt millstone around my neck.

The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria, and the worst is by Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Sussex, who perished along with her poetry during the destruction of Earth, ironically caused by the Vogons themselves.

Things should have been reassessed, especially before building out a millstone of an engineering team around PHP.

The windmill was invented later on in Europe during the "middle ages") - cement (also greek-born) - millstone (india) Were the Romans great engineers?

There's an incredibly important climax: "[T]he real disillusionment isn’t the discovery that you’re unlikely to become a billionaire; it’s the realization that your feeling of autonomy is a fantasy, and that the vast majority of you have been set up to fail by design." The story is a sober, measured portrait of the purpose of the SF millstone.

If you buy from us a portion of our future profit we will have the immediate funds to set up the business and you will get a payout for the indefinite future." And the stock market is for third party buying and selling of these "shares of profit" Under these conditions are not all stocks a sort of millstone of perpetual debt for the company and it would behoove them to remove that debt, that is, buyback the stock.

At length I've finally decided that the fear comes from simply having been burned one too many times by that "one-shot script" that I was forced to "just hack quickly" becoming the freaking cornerstone of some business process and then weighing me down like a millstone around my neck for years afterwards.

(For example check out Millstone's reasoning above.