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in a well actually
Jan 26, 2011

dude, you gotta end it on the rhyme

theflyingexecutive posted:

i'll give them a pass on tonal languages, but for example why go ukranian over russian?

isnt it the same thing

it will be soon:ussr:

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Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

fart simpson posted:

which one was the fifth

saturn/playstation/n64/3do/jaguar/a bunch of other poo poo even less important

Subjunctive
Sep 12, 2006

✨sparkle and shine✨


only white people want an app to learn mandarin

fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:

i would learn _____ but there isnt an app for it, so

Wild EEPROM
Jul 29, 2011


oh, my, god. Becky, look at her bitrate.
just learn to code, the latest code academy with gamefication makes it so easy to learn to be a programmer through gettin achievements for following directions and not learning anything and coding in languages that it won't tell you

graph
Nov 22, 2006

aaag peanuts
snes was the best console period

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

College Slice

graph posted:

snes was the best console period

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

graph posted:

snes was the best console, period

bobbilljim
May 29, 2013

this christmas feels like the very first christmas to me
:shittydog::shittydog::shittydog:
blood coming out of my playstation

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

graph posted:

snes was the best console period

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

scrum bored



bobbilljim posted:

worms coming out of my dreamcast

computer parts
Nov 18, 2010

PLEASE CLAP

Subjunctive posted:

only white people want an app to learn mandarin

oh learning yeah, that makes it even dumber that they aren't adding mandarin though

Progressive JPEG
Feb 19, 2003


this is amazing

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

pr0zac posted:

who else thats running is this applicable to? like serious question cause i can't think of anyone

literally anyone who has ever been involved in business, i.e. every candidate

Flat Daddy
Dec 3, 2014

by Nyc_Tattoo
everybody should know by now, its so sexist to focus on a woman's business past rather than her policy ideas. thats a relaly common sexist thing that always happens

atomicthumbs
Dec 26, 2010


We're in the business of extending man's senses.
as always /r/sanfrancisco has its finger on the pulse of... something

KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD
Jul 7, 2012

dont



quote



stymie

MeruFM
Jul 27, 2010
the specialized language learning apps can't hold a finger to plain SRS plus just reading once you get some vocab and grammar down

at best, they're feel-good software for people who want to pretend they're learning something.
At worst, they're a red herring/genuine waste of time for people who actually want to learn a language.

ultramiraculous
Nov 12, 2003

"No..."
Grimey Drawer

atomicthumbs posted:

as always /r/sanfrancisco has its finger on the pulse of... something



as someone who lives in what i'm calling a 'cheaper neighborhood', i'm not a gentrifier, but i'm ok with them.

ultramiraculous
Nov 12, 2003

"No..."
Grimey Drawer
also that quote was in-character or whatever, because i'm being bilked for every dollar i make

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

Emergency confection port.

MeruFM posted:

the specialized language learning apps can't hold a finger to plain SRS plus just reading once you get some vocab and grammar down

at best, they're feel-good software for people who want to pretend they're learning something.
At worst, they're a red herring/genuine waste of time for people who actually want to learn a language.

why would I need sexual reassignment surgery to learn French

oui oui? non.

Noyemi K
Dec 9, 2012

youll always be so sleepy when youre this tiny *plompf*
Are there any books about the current startup bubble with lots of data and some anecdote by people in the industry?

I follow Chris Yeh on tweeter and sometimes he writes cool stuff, and other times he shares articles written by people who are aggressive about there not being a bubble based on throwing money at kids in tech (like the dot com boom/bust) and it just made me think, I'd like some backstory

Notorious b.s.d.
Jan 25, 2003

by Reene

PCjr sidecar posted:

you can make casinos work in backwater, oklahoma, population 1500 but you cant next door to one of the most populous cities in the country

new jersey just sucks that much

atlantic city is a 2-3 hour bus ride from new york city.

a casino was built inside new york city limits in 2011. that seems like a pretty good reason not to spend three hours on a bus.

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


Notorious b.s.d. posted:

atlantic city is a 2-3 hour bus ride from new york city.

a casino was built inside new york city limits in 2011. that seems like a pretty good reason not to spend three hours on a bus.

your mom is a bus. lol

Notorious b.s.d.
Jan 25, 2003

by Reene

qirex posted:

donald trump is very good at selling donald trump the brand

donald trump is not very good at casinos, investing, politics or real estate

donald trump went bankrupt as a property developer.

now he literally just sells the brand. developer pays him money, gets to call their building "trump something." he's focusing on his core competency: selling trump the brand.

Notorious b.s.d.
Jan 25, 2003

by Reene

Citizen Tayne posted:

your mom is a bus. lol

you have a problem with autobus-americans?

prefect
Sep 11, 2001

No one, Woodhouse.
No one.




Dead Man’s Band
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Pass...-in-big-trouble

i guess they have a site/app thing that will analyze people and tell you how to talk to them :tinfoil:

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

donald trump went bankrupt as a property developer.

now he literally just sells the brand. developer pays him money, gets to call their building "trump something." he's focusing on his core competency: selling trump the brand.
yep

had a nine-figure inheritance and managed to go broke buying and selling new york real estate

he is not rich. his liabilities are larger than his assets which is why he spends all that energy chasing down every stray dollar he can (motivational speech circuit, reality show) and keeping his name in the news (fake-running for president, trash-talking obama). actual rich people dont do that

Main Paineframe
Oct 27, 2010

Stymie posted:

yes, but it's kind of weird about how she gets utterly vilified for her business dealings (and compared unfavorably to satan) while other candidates with similar business experience get debated about policy

hrrrrm

hrrrrrrrmery

the dems made a huge deal about romney's business dealings, even though none of them were anywhere near as bad as fiorina's time at hp

it's also a bit early to call her out on her positions or joke about them, because the low-info public doesn't know them yet, she's only been in the race for like a week and hasn't said anything particularly soundbitey. the media is still in the stage of telling people what her positions even are

Condiv
May 7, 2008

Sorry to undo the effort of paying a domestic abuser $10 to own this poster, but I am going to lose my dang mind if I keep seeing multiple posters who appear to be Baloogan.

With love,
a mod


graph posted:

snes was the best console period

on this note, the snes controller was amazing and whenever i pick one up i'm left wondering why newer controllers can't be as comfortable

Subjunctive
Sep 12, 2006

✨sparkle and shine✨

for a long time Nintendo had a patent on some of its controller elements, including IIRC the d-pad

computer parts
Nov 18, 2010

PLEASE CLAP

Subjunctive posted:

for a long time Nintendo had a patent on some of its controller elements, including IIRC the d-pad

that expired around 2009 i think

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

Subjunctive posted:

for a long time Nintendo had a patent on some of its controller elements, including IIRC the d-pad

this cannot explain the xbox 360's dpad

Subjunctive
Sep 12, 2006

✨sparkle and shine✨

Captain Foo posted:

this cannot explain the xbox 360's dpad

it was functionally a disc and not a cross, right? I think that was an essential element of Nintendo's patent.

Tokamak
Dec 22, 2004

Noyemi K posted:

Are there any books about the current startup bubble with lots of data and some anecdote by people in the industry?

I follow Chris Yeh on tweeter and sometimes he writes cool stuff, and other times he shares articles written by people who are aggressive about there not being a bubble based on throwing money at kids in tech (like the dot com boom/bust) and it just made me think, I'd like some backstory

i doubt it because we are still in the inflation phase of the bubble. i think you are better off looking for materials on the original dot-com bubble and applying those insights onto the current situation. for the most part we just laugh at uber and other terrible businesses as we see them.

fritz
Jul 26, 2003

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

you have a problem with autobus-americans?

tori stepping on shaggar's act

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

Subjunctive posted:

it was functionally a disc and not a cross, right? I think that was an essential element of Nintendo's patent.

yes and it was the single most garbage implementation of the "dpad" concept ever designed

Noyemi K
Dec 9, 2012

youll always be so sleepy when youre this tiny *plompf*

Tokamak posted:

i doubt it because we are still in the inflation phase of the bubble. i think you are better off looking for materials on the original dot-com bubble and applying those insights onto the current situation. for the most part we just laugh at uber and other terrible businesses as we see them.

I have a couple books on the dot-com boom already, I'm just hungry for more backstory on the current bubble. Why, oh why can't it be the future yet :smith:

Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

this is me posting irl

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

donald trump went bankrupt as a property developer.

now he literally just sells the brand. developer pays him money, gets to call their building "trump something." he's focusing on his core competency: selling trump the brand.

how did "trump" even get to be a positive brand, he's been a total joke for as long as i can remember

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carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

from what i've personally seen, the average person knows two things about donald trump:

1: he's rich
2: "you're fired"

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