Very in a sentence as an adjective

And the APIs for everything I clicked were... they were paltry.

It's a process they're very familiar with so they're going to skim and click through quickly.

Everything Steve says about Amazon is true, only, it was much worse.

Quora has now spent several years training me to be bummed out every time I click on a link to their site.

The way it was done was very inefficient, frustratingly so.

I didn't like what I was doing, I thought the management was dumb, I just didn't think my work was very important.

Every time it happens, I dislike them more, and become more resistant to creating an account.

I did start this post -- if you'll reach back into distant memory -- by describing Google as "doing everything right".

I am a strong supporter of gay marriage, but I have to say that I find this very unfortunate and worrying.

People have often speculated about how much cheaper launch services might be if they were in the private sector -- now we can find out. The preliminary signs are very good.

But this is a very serious situation and if left unchecked it may damage the potential for you to do good work for the rest of your life.

Also, it is not authorized by the constitution, and thus every act of seizure under it is criminal act.

We're in a very specialized niche that is especially demanding of software development skills.

Very in a sentence as an adverb

He micro-manages every single pixel of Amazon's retail site.

I would be very depressed on projects, make slow progress, at times get into a mode where I was much of the time pretending progress simply because I could not bring myself to do the work.

Document everything, save all of your emails, chat logs, download and archive all Github comments on everything that you've worked on, as well as everything else you can.

Nobody can make any real forward progress until very serious quotas and throttling are put in place in every single service.- monitoring and QA are the same thing.

And their operations are a mess; they don't really have SREs and they make engineers pretty much do everything, which leaves almost no time for coding - though again this varies by group, so it's luck of the draw.

They prioritize launching early over everything else, including retention and engineering discipline and a bunch of other stuff that turns out to matter in the long run.

From the time Bezos issued his edict through the time I left, Amazon had transformed culturally into a company that thinks about everything in a services-first fashion.

One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right.

Every language has hundreds of tacit grammar rules, many of which are not known explicitly even to native speakers, but which reveal a language-learner as a foreigner when the rules are broken.

If each bounce goes through a team with a 15-minute response time, it can be hours before the right team finally finds out, unless you build a lot of scaffolding and metrics and reporting.- every single one of your peer teams suddenly becomes a potential DOS attacker.

In every one of those ******** articles, someone had to marshall real arguments, chase down real sources, and in many cases defend those arguments against both bona fide Wikipedia contributors and also sockpuppets of the subjects of the article.

Why don't we let Reddit be Reddit, and HN be HN?Why would I want HN to be a megaphone for Famous Joe Blow X when I'd much rather have him actively participating and helping out in the threads with the rest of us?This is a very bad idea in my opinion.

During that entire time, her article stood with a very prominent notice saying it was going to be deleted, with a prominent link allowing people to argue in favor of keeping or, better yet, locate a real reliable source backing up any claim to her notability.

Very definitions

adjective

precisely as stated; "the very center of town"

adjective

being the exact same one; not any other:; "this is the identical room we stayed in before"; "the themes of his stories are one and the same"; "saw the selfsame quotation in two newspapers"; "on this very spot"; "the very thing he said yesterday"; "the very man I want to see"

See also: identical

adverb

used as intensifiers; `real' is sometimes used informally for `really'; `rattling' is informal; "she was very gifted"; "he played very well"; "a really enjoyable evening"; "I'm real sorry about it"; "a rattling good yarn"

See also: really real rattling

adverb

precisely so; "on the very next page"; "he expected the very opposite"