oversized

In the case of a software company you're introducing the twin evils of bad hires and oversized teams. For what?

You joined before money was raised, and possibly got an oversized equity stake that is being clawed back. If you were supposed to have more than 1%, I'd consider it possible.

Ironically, physics would preclude an oversized truck from reaching the wet pavement.

They had no idea that there were people flying around the Earth in an oversized tin can, in constant danger of being hit by space debris, doing experiments and increasing our understanding. No idea.

Putting this kind of branding on Microsoft is like putting the geeky kid with oversized glasses and suspenders a new wardrobe. Sure, the kid will look cooler, but it won't stop him from playing Magic: The Gathering in their basement.

The calendar is again completely oversized, low contrast, and difficult to understand. My laptop has a 1440x900 resolution screen and I can barely fit a single full month in the window.

Why is it OK to be wearing ill-fitting jeans and an oversized stained t-shirt from a tech conference? Is it thought that if someone is in to dressing well that they've taken time away from learning a new technology or focusing on their product?

No matter what people say about the legality/morality of his businesses, I love this guy's oversized personality. He's one of those guys that keeps things interesting on the internet.

There are also folks who figure out extreme hacks that can result in truly oversized rewards. I call this the "crates of cheese" phenomenon, after an airline promotion I read about that awarded people x frequent flier miles for purchasing a package of cheese.

Having said that: had I written the "review" as an actual "review", and not as an oversized HN comment that I had to make a Gist out of to get it onto the site, I would have written it more carefully.

Also: "A chunk of helium ice would behave as a single, solid, oversized, and stupefyingly slippery atom, which may be capable of passing ghost-like through certain materials. But that's another matter altogether."

In my opinion, the "biggest problem of our time" is oversized government and excessive lobbying of politicians to serve corporate interests rather than the needs of the people. Unfortunately the powers that be are not going to reward that which undermines their own reason for existing...

After more than a very few selections, the arm begins to feel sore, cramped, and oversized the operator looks like a gorilla while using the touch screen and feels like one afterwards. This is now considered a classic cautionary tale to human-factors designers; Remember the gorilla arm!

The Ruby/Rails way: When the drama created by oversized egos inevitably comes to a head, fork/replace the project and badmouth the other guys. Allow me to rewrite your statement to be ruby-drama-free: We have been working on several JavaScript-related tools that build on top of RubyGems.

The oversized VC funds and oversized valuations are relatively recent phenomena and it will likely be at least 18-24 months until the well goes dry. But when you see billion-plus dollar VC funds and a dozen me-too venture backed companies in the mobile photo-sharing space alone, well, it doesn't take an expert to see the froth in the water.

Americans kept launching these oversized, expensive, hard and expensive to maintain machines. Looking at that particular Wikipedia page, informally it looks like the Soviet also didn't have any fatalities after 1971.

I also think there are some warning bells in the Techcrunch article: >"Internet porn sites are still shameful artifacts of a decade past from when the Internet was a collection of websites featuring low-resolution images and oversized banner ads" You should always be very careful when labelling a sophisticated and fast-moving industry as out-dated as the accusation can come straight back at you. The current sites could be better designed but frankly they are not bad and represent huge technical feats, streaming massive amounts of video to huge numbers of people.

Not to mention at the very core it doesn't stray very far from Apple's guidelines - it's very clearly built around the standard navigation stack, uses segmented buttons for radio choices, puts large oversized buttons towards the bottom of a flow for completion, defaults finishing actions to the right side of the screen, uses a minimally styled version of UIActionSheet... I'm struggling to find anything here that hasn't been seen in a hojillion other iOS apps, or even functionally different than the "standard" iOS flow.