stares

Then the users come to IS and piss and whine but get nothing but blank stares in return.

Yes, the longer a player sits on the bench / stares at code the better they are.

Despite being one of the most senior devs at a $200M still stares at closed doors on a daily basis.

But if you take a 2 hour train ride to Shijiazhuang, you'll get stares all day.

During May Day or other Chinese holidays when out of town folk come into the city, you can get stares even in Shanghai.

I got some stares from time to time, but it's probably because I walk funny.

Watching it again, I started to wonder if the ending isn't just a fantasy of Andrew as he stares up at Carnegie Hall.

It's kind of a bummer, but I've tried to generate enthusiasm around open sourcing some of our components and was met with blank stares.

R.2048, I am going to get a lot of blank stares...

Yeah, I get zero stares in Shanghai or Hangzhou, but in nearby Shaoxing foreigners are few and far between enough that I get plenty of looks.

Attempting to explain that I verified the functionality line-by-line brings blank stares, as if it's utterly impossible for someone to derive the dark magics that are code.

/me stares off into space, thinking of a day when I might discover a vital 0-day.

Guy: "No one stares at my chest at conferences -- I'm sure it doesn't happen!

At least until disaster stares them in the face, and this article makes the point that the typical "management hire" is well(?) trained to avoid disaster.

Tight coupling of systems is a universally accepted anti-pattern and anyone who has a product that eventually requires flexibility in their client-server communication is going to find themselves stuck when everyone just stares blankly repeating "but...

In practice, top-down directives will probably be something akin to "Sure, do that, but do it on your own time and not at the expense of anything else." The realized benefits are very low (the % of users with JavaScript disabled is incredibly small), and saying something like "our site won't be accessible in 1000 years otherwise" is likely to get you mostly blank stares.