self-flagellation

If the goal is guilt-driven self-flagellation about the distinction between startups' marketing copy and the reality of the situation, less cool.

Suffering at a large company for a while isn't self-flagellation, it hands you hundreds of things needing solutions.

Various horror stories were recounted by female bounceyball players and a new round of self-flagellation began among those in the industry.

It's just that the self-flagellation stops working for many people once they hit 20.

When we're talking self-flagellation, or hunting elephants as a group, things operate on a quite different level.

It is all about penance--whether you are dealing with environmentalism, multiculturalism, economic progressivism, everything the left believes involves some form of required self-flagellation.

So what Rand's critics are advocating is akin to self-flagellation.

My extra 80 points came from severe intellectual self-flagellation.

He chooses to work with VSS, so we know he enjoys self-flagellation..

With a TAM measuring in the hundreds of millions of devices for each platform, I'd much rather work with the one that requires less self-flagellation.

There was a reason why Huxley picked an insecure religious fundamentalist with a fondness for self-flagellation and fear of his own sexuality to contrast with the Brave New World.

Complexity poker involved guessing what number the manager wanted you to pick, and sprint reviews were two-day experiences in self-flagellation.

"Microservices" is the 'paradigm' that you should create this headaches for yourself because Martin Fowler Told You To and because the idea that separation of concerns and loosely coupled libraries won't happen unless you do the technical equivalent of self-flagellation.

(Like self-flagellation to get closer to God, or brain-cell killing substances "to take the edge off".) I'm not advocating for draconian measures to try and prevent 100% of the people from doing X, and those are impossible anyway when X is readily produced (like alcohol) but there's a middle ground between that and doing nothing while your population withers.

Self-flagellation builds character, it absolves you of your sin!