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My youth in rural Texas was punctuated by a two year stint in Florida during middle school.

Quiet is best, maybe punctuated by music through my headphones or a bout of pair programming with a colleague.

Just because something changes based on stuff around it doesn't make it evolutionary, or punctuated.

Gradual changes in the law punctuated by occasional serious strides forward led to a near complete abandonment of the previous system.

Granted, the coincidences come in much smaller increments now, and they're punctuated with unit tests.

The comments stopped and the conversation was over with a punctuated You are wrong!

They have a similar energy usage, lots of sitting idle punctuated by doing something.

Evolutionary biologists call it Punctuated Equilibrium: the idea that progress comes in spurts.

Instead, it's day after day of the same bullshit, punctuated by panic.

Is that tendency toward idleness punctuated with productive spurts actually a weakness?

A big socialist evolution -- punctuated, to be sure, and not without upheaval at some points -- in most developed countries rather than a socialist revolution.

I'm not sure random, punctuated text is so much easier to commit to memory.

First three months free!!" But that looong, rambling explanation of every little feature, punctuated by clips from hip-but-safe artists, was entirely too much show for it.

"ring species", "punctuated equilibrium", etc.) are primarily narrative or even ad hoc.

I'm always a bit amazed at how casually people talk about how "slavery ended," punctuated by the civil war, when in fact, the 13th amendment didn't end slavery at all, at least legally.

The author is not necessarily wrong, however he provides absolutely no data short of personal antecedents to back up his claims about the inefficiency of "Crunch Mode." I'm sure punctuated periods of stress have been extensively studied, and I wonder if these studies align with what the author is saying.