Sentences with phrase «away at things»

To avoid breaking stuff, developers typically like to have the content of their games locked in before they start surgically slicing away at things like load times.

I really wonder what's going to happen as ebooks continue to chip away at things like territorial boundaries.

I love to grab food, come back to my desk, and hammer away at things while listening to music.

Chip away at the things you know you should not be eating.

«And Labour have proved quite effective at chipping away at things like her reluctance to debate.»

So I'm going to keep chipping away at things that have been neglected all these years.

You have to keep plugging away at things, just to keep from having a huge loss in what on another day might be a huge win.

They want to avoid failure at all costs, so they keep plugging away at things, long after logic suggests it's time to move on.

The TF103's trackpad is very small, and to make up for that sensitivity is set fairly high by default, ensuring you don't have to paw away at the thing like a cat playing with a piece of string.

Let's put it down on paper and then let's chip away at this thing.

Not exact matches

We usually get to enjoy those things at home and holiday parties, but stepping into the office can easily take away from the festive feeling.

«This whole internet thing doesn't appear to be going away anytime soon,» said a Cisco report from 2013 which was looking at growth trends in global traffic.

How to Manage Interns: What to Provide for Your Interns The main thing interns should take away from an internship at your company is practical work experience that in some way matches their interests.

You don't have to follow Nirav's regimen, but you should try to do what Nirav has done: Find a sustainable way to take control, to do the things that make you feel good, to live in away that you can be around for loved ones... and to be at your best at work.

They were asked to rank themselves at that moment in time on statements like: «I feel like most of my life lies ahead of me,» «My future seems infinite to me,» «Time is slipping away,» and «I have a lot of time in which to get things done.»

And yet, for all his professional accolades, Shannon was comfortable being something that we too often take for granted: an amateur.Shannon was «an amateur unicyclist» and «an amateur juggler,» and could often be found tinkering away at his home, building things from scratch such as a robotic mouse that could navigate a maze.

«I've found a sustainable way for me to feel like I can take control, do the things that make me feel good, live in away that I can be around for my kids... and be at my best at work.»

This sort of thing isn't supposed to happen — there's supposed to be at least one company that's willing to lower its prices and steal away its competition's customers.

Holger Mueller, who tracks the HR sector as principal analyst and vice president at Constellation Research, contends that Zenefits» revenue model is the most revolutionary thing about the company, comparing its approach to Google, which also gives away its digital services for free (then monetizes its accumulated user data by selling it to advertisers).

One smart thing we did at the recommendation of my capital access team: we could have taken the money out slowly with some fee reduction, or just eliminate fees right away.

Those projects will take away time from the things you are truly good at, and if you don't properly deliver, clients won't be happy.

But I don't want to just list these things, I want to equip you with them: Think of the following as six practical tools to help you chisel away at a more elegant work - life balance.

But it has other benefits, including a wide investment selection, and if you don't have a 401 (k) at work, an IRA is far and away the next best thing.

As SunTrust allows its employees to walk away without signing its «cooperation clause,» here are a few things professionals at other firms can learn from the experience.

But when you compare it to the 7.3 metres (24 feet) that global sea levels are predicted to rise if the entire Greenland Ice Sheet were to melt away all at once... well, it puts things into perspective.

By spreading your skills over a wider area, it takes away the possibility to be really good at a single thing.

She helped peel away the things that were not the facts and look at it in a way that I wasn't able to do on my own.

There's at least half a dozen things she's going to wade into right away,» Hirji added.

Things like taxes and investing fees can quickly eat away at your retirement savings.

«I can see ESPN kind of being picked away at from the bottom, and eventually being disrupted by that kind of thing,» Krikorian says.

It's sort of like a real - life version of Guitar Hero or Rock Band, except instead of slapping away at a series of buttons — an act that has just about zero relation to the real thing — you're strumming away on an actual guitar.

On the one hand innovation is clearly at an all time high unleashed by smart phones, fast telecom networks, social networks that spread commerce and the fact that we are all one click away from buying things on Amazon, Apple, Google or PayPal.

«It doesn't make sense for us to wander away and do things that we're not very good at,» chief executive Stephen Wetmore told analysts during a call Thursday.

Making things worse: «Maria is moving away very slowly,» Weber says, at around 9 mph.

And instead of printing new treasury bonds to give away in exchange for these bad mortgages it would have established simply a line of credit which at first would have been the same thing but the credit would have been repaid not only by the banks that borrowed but by all the banks in the country paying insurance — essentially bank insurance.

The main thing I got out of the book is looking at assets as putting money in my pocket and liabilities as taking money away.

At companies such as Netflix, Hubspot and Evernote, employees can take what they want, when they want it — as long as they get their work done, get the time approved and get things covered while they're away.

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That many still have a «muscle memory» of the crisis is a good thing, she said, but at the same time, the pervasiveness of skepticism that is still causing many to hunker down and stay away from the markets is doing them a disservice.

«As I remember, we were paying them $ 10 or $ 11 a click or something like that and any time you're paying somebody $ 10 or $ 11 every time somebody punches a little thing where you have no cost at all, you know, that's a good business unless somebody's going to take it away from you and so we were close - up seeing that,» Buffett said.

A couple of things will jump out at you right away.

Let me tell you, at $ 99, we are practically giving this thing away.

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The other thing with natural gas is that well at least we know where the bottom is... and having fallen from close to $ 14 per 1000 cubic feet last year to just above $ 2.40 last Thursday, well the absolute bottom isn't too far off now... and I can't see suppliers giving gas away for free anytime soon!

We've been busy beavering away at Wirex HQ on many things; brand new accounts for everybody, brand new contactless cards for our customers and now new landing pages and banners for our amazing affiliates.

I've learnt through experience that I'm terrible at timing those sort of things, so I tend to stay away.

*************** «The kind of explanation which explains things away may give us something, though at a heavy cost.

So I have [this song saying], «You are not possessive, You are not invasive, You are not controlling» All these things that I've kind of been taught that God was, and I no longer believe that God is, so I was trying to chip away at the block of marble and see, like, what is under here?

Once we begin to whittle away at the Word as the absolute authority, the whole thing becomes worthless.

At the same time we are slaving away to obtain the «finer» things in life, we publicly profess a strong distaste for materialism.