Some in a sentence as an adjective

Let's go contract someone to, um, write some games for us.

My father recently died and while things like these may trigger some slight pain, that's just life.

There are without question pros and cons to the SOA approach, and some of the cons are pretty long.

" I mean, I was joking, but no... the only API call we offer is to get someone's stream.

Because Bezos had gone to buy something on the site and had seen the problem himself.

I worked at Amazon from before Steve left to sometime later.

It was a pretty long journey for a weekend - it would sometimes take 10 hours one way since you had to go through New York.

I think Larry Tesler might have struck some kind of chord in Bezos when he said his mom couldn't use the goddamn website.

It's about helping someone solve a problem in five minutes that would have taken them hours to solve on their own.

These folks sometimes take on "thought leader" positions, act as architects or whatnot.

The money isn't always better in these other fields, but sometimes the job satisfaction is.

When that calmed down and another officer came by to drop off someone else, I told him what had happened and his only response was "so?

A consultancy or something where you get to work on different things in different places on short engagements.

Some in a sentence as an adverb

It's different when you are younger and everything is new, you just chalk up a major tooling change as just something else to learn.

If my work mates are talking about something other than work, I'm probably not interested.

✓Have an existing audience you can leverage to get some random Google employee's attention?

It's rare that you can find candid descriptions of what it's like to work somewhere.... since Steve felt free to be candid, I figured I'd share my experiences.

I feel like it's almost a right of passage these days to rely heavily on a Google service, only to have something go wrong and be left out in the cold.

There is obviously some skill in researching, predicting, working and acquiring land that will soon appreciate in value.

We do mean well, and for the most part when people say we're arrogant it's because we didn't hire them, or they're unhappy with our policies, or something along those lines.

We don't like having to decline hundreds of dollars of revenue either, but we have the experience of losing hundreds of millions to fraud and know that some revenue just isn't worth the risk.

They've made some fundamentally non-open choices, particularly around their mobile platform.

I was being loyal, and went to HR to try and get some advice or mediation, but despite being promised confidentiality, the notes of my meeting with the HR rep were forwarded to my boss.

If you're delaying on this point out of some idea of wanting to "try to fix things first" or "not wanting to be the bad guy," you're just shooting yourself in the foot and downing blood thinners to keep the wound from clotting.

If any potential investors even sniff the possibility, they'll run and never look back while your current investors will raise holy ****, even if the CEO+CTO were able to find some fig leaf of justification.

Quite often though industry biases will engage and they'll be put on duty keeping some legacy system alive because their deep knowledge of the system lets the company put 1 guy maintaining half a million lines of code in perpetuity vs. 10 young guys maintaining the same, who all wanting to leave after a few years to build more skills.

Proper Noun Examples for Some

Some people love this work, they can stay useful and "in the game", but some hate it because it comes with the cachet of being stale and not keeping up with the times.

Some definitions

adjective

quantifier; used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity; "have some milk"; "some roses were still blooming"; "having some friends over"; "some apples"; "some paper"

adjective

relatively much but unspecified in amount or extent; "we talked for some time"; "he was still some distance away"

adjective

relatively many but unspecified in number; "they were here for some weeks"; "we did not meet again for some years"

adjective

remarkable; "that was some party"; "she is some skier"

adverb

(of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct; "lasted approximately an hour"; "in just about a minute"; "he's about 30 years old"; "I've had about all I can stand"; "we meet about once a month"; "some forty people came"; "weighs around a hundred pounds"; "roughly $3,000"; "holds 3 gallons, more or less"; "20 or so people were at the party"

See also: approximately about roughly around