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Jeff Atwood used to think very deeply about this type of thing, the nuances of human behavior.

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Quick take

Subtlety or fine detail.

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noun

Subtlety or fine detail.

noun

(countable) A minor distinction.

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Core meanings and parts of speech for nuances.

noun

Subtlety or fine detail.

noun

(countable) A minor distinction.

Example sentences

Jeff Atwood used to think very deeply about this type of thing, the nuances of human behavior.

To us that means when you get an interesting problem, you will rip into it until you understand its nuances and perhaps have a glimpse of the solution.

Sure there are a few nuances here and there, but like you said, it's free.

If everyone knows everyone else well enough to understand the nuances, these can be accommodated.

It never ceases to amaze me how easy it seems to think the only job with subtle nuances is your own.

I wouldn't expect advanced topics like concurrency or nuances of debugging yet (unless they have been heavily mentored).

Sometimes the nuances of a situation can't be summed up in a PowerPoint slide.

Protecting children is important, but people are jumping to conclusions that are not actually warranted by the facts and nuances of the situation.

My working hypothesis is that I don't have a good understanding of web-development to appreciate the nuances.

I can see miscommunication a lot faster, and with written word I can -really- pick up on the nuances.

Das Kapital and Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei in the original German lead to certain nuances of language that can be lost in a poor translation.

There are many other little nuances you'll pick up on, but I won't spoil it!

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It's so easy to underestimate how little truly "average" folks understand or care about these nuances in the real world outside of a few tech bubble areas.

And in typical SV fashion with the "winner takes all mentality", it's as if we can apply a Uber/Airbnb persona to seemingly any industry without understanding it's respective nuances and sociodynamics.

He could have explained that a bit better, I guess, but something might be lost in the different nuances of meanings we give to "muzzle" and "mouth".

(Reini Urban and I are good friends and programming partners, so even though we may disagree about the nuances of the term "optimizing compiler", we are only arguing about semantics, both literally and figuratively.) You will have to pardon my slow replies, I am currently at Scout Camp and have little-to-no Internet access.