sheepish

As programmers, we should be sheepish about our hacks, and seek to correct them - not wear them proudly.

It's not a sheepish admission, it's the whole point of the article. Ars are trying to highlight exactly the problems you're talking about.

It seems all you can really do is give the sheepish grin and say "yeah, well, that was written at a very foolish time in my life&;&."

Thanks, but I already feel sheepish for preaching. Besides, HN is my strategy for never having a blog.

You receive an email from a sheepish website owner admitting that your password has been compromised and asking you to change it. Now what do you do?

They shouldn't have written this with the sheepish, question-marked headline. They don't need to apologize or feel bashful, though I get why they would.

And then also hit a bit of a panic mode and put up a sheepish apology like that. I know enough people that have actually done things similar to that.

Do not be apologetic or sheepish. Do not blather on with explanations.

My manager looked sheepish and said, "well, we can't really enforce them in California anyway."

He's the creator of Linux, and a very respected hacker, so it's not that sheepish to be interested in the tools he chooses for his work.

In their launch, Turnbull looked quite sheepish the entire time. Turnbull should be the opposition leader, not the Communications Minister, but that's for another debate.

When I give a talk and my bio says J2EE I'm a bit sheepish, and all the twenty-somethings are like LOL you use java, but that's silly - I work for a better, stronger business than all the little startups[1] emailing me on careers. stackoverflow.

If that is the case, I apologize and feel a bit sheepish. In my defense, I live an incredibly conservative area in the US, and many of my neighbors honestly believe this exact thing, so it isn't obvious sarcasm to me.

Jack knew this, but instead of being sheepish about his condition, he would address it head on. He had a clever quip that he used to simultaneously draw your attention to his condition, as well as communicate that he understands it can be distracting.

Once I read the article, based on the fact that half of it is a sheepish admission that there are problems with the theorem, I think that this prior probability was more than confirmed. With a probability this low, I see no reason to waste my time reading breathless articles like this.

Ignorant, self-serving politicians and their sheepish, easily manipulated constituents are the reason we can't have nice things.

Not as much as MS was back in the day, but more than modern, sheepish-looking Microsoft. I gotta say it weirds me out when people assert that everyone loves Apple, because it happens a lot; almost as often as people go on vitriolic rants against everything Apple-related.

When I give a talk and my bio says J2EE I'm a bit sheepish, and all the twenty-somethings You shouldn't feel sheepish at all. With how the client side JS frameworks are shaping up I think for many apps the optimal architecture is going to end up being JS in the browser calling web services in the backend written in Java/.

I am prejudiced against people who use their real names when the website allows them to use a nickname: I automatically assume they will be uninteresting, their opinions sheepish and will always avoid confrontation or controversial ideas. I feel like they are always talking in the presence of their mother.

The money is there, but it seems like Silicon Valley engineers are too sheepish to actually demand it, nobody wants to come off as being in it for the money. When people hear, "I really want this job because I'm passionate about changing the world with twitter posts, or Facebook timelines, or amazing time tracking software", they think, I don't have to pay this guy.

I can think of a few situations where a customer or client has an incredibly important and entirely reasonable need/complaint, such that it makes the company look sheepish for not having thought of it, and saying something like: "Oh Christ, someone's concerned about [our product/program/whatever] potentially burning their house down. What a whiner!"

I hope this comment stays online for the remainder of your life, so when you have a family you love and you see how beneficial it would be if you had more time and home as your children grow, you look back here and feel just a little sheepish. Any company that truly respects people understands that taking a few months of work, or only working part time, does not in any way, at all, degrade the quality of the work.

Feel sheepish about any of your accomplishments, because they were made easier due to your lack of melanin." Perhaps this white male with his lack of melanin has sun-damaged skin with several large, prominent moles, all of which contribute to his lower self-esteem." Your life is easier because you're white. Feel guilty. Feel sheepish about any of your accomplishments, because they were made easier due to your lack of melanin."

Oh well, I assume that at some point, Google will be forced to respond, will give a big "What the hell, guys, this wasn't us", and then everyone will look sheepish for a while until a year later where some blogger will stumble on it again, and try to expose the truth of "google being evil in africa".