I wouldn't have been opposed to seeing more of Salem Rogers, a snarky, single-camera sitcom about an off-the-rails ex-model.
Once the directors have waded through the numbers and snarky asides about the corporate jet, it boils down to three demands: a buy-back, the spin-off of a non-core subsidiary and the search for a merger partner.
"No," I said, holding my tongue to not let out a snarky response.
Until computers learn how to cope just as proficiently with the outbursts of self-absorbed teenage bloggers or snarky gossip columnists, machine-translated articles will struggle to attract readers.
During the mid-2000s a host of snarky, nerdier-than-thou websites sprouted up to mock the flat-earthers who decried the new metrics from newspaper sports columns, broadcast booths and GM's offices.
BLOG readers are well acquainted with the pratice of "fisking", which entails reproducing an argument or news item at length and interspersing one's own snarky refutation.
"Even if the rumours aren't true, for many people that fear and sense that you don't belong is real," says Ms Hazarika.Pune's north-easterners, many of whose faces look South-East Asian or Tibetan, say that snarky comments are a daily occurrence.
Glassdoor has 14m registered users, and in October raised $20m to expand.Glassdoor requires all reviewers to make positive comments as well as snarky ones.
(The National Review has a snarky take today on pro-draft liberalism).All the sadder that Friedman is gone, because it would have been good to hear his counter-arguments to Mr Rangel, whose line of attack is somewhat different to the arguments raging around the draft in the 1960s and 1970s.
Offenses included being overly "snarky", insulting, or reiterating "left-wing talking points".
A snarky, hectoring tone certainly detracts from his argument, something which cannot be said of Jaron Lanier, a computer scientist who popularised the term "virtual reality" and who now works for Microsoft.
