Maluco Marinero posted:

JK Simmons has that quality to take a role, seemingly any role, and then make it impossible to imagine any one else who could be better suited for it.

Maluco Marinero posted:

JK Simmons has that quality to take a role, seemingly any role, and then make it impossible to imagine any one else who could be better suited for it.

cool startup feel posted:

plus she wrote all those harry potter books

Maluco Marinero posted:

JK Simmons has that quality to take a role, seemingly any role, and then make it impossible to imagine any one else who could be better suited for it.

anthonypants posted:

rip raúl juliá

Krankenstyle posted:

infernal machines posted:

i legit had no idea he was dead.

bit sad really

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

public school and sanitation are public goods

highways, not so much

The Management posted:

for a second I thought you were watching Sledge Hammer, which would have been very cool.

anthonypants posted:

rip raúl juliá

Doom Mathematic posted:

I saw the Addams Family movies for the first time the other day. They're strangely patchy affairs but Raúl Juliá was an absolute delight anytime he was on the screen. (Also Anjelica Huston.)

Just-In-Timeberlake posted:

the second one has more quick one liners than any movie i've ever seen and even having seen it like 20 times i still catch something new on rewatch

also this happened today

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/955771016319590400
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/956012274942128128

the onion is going to go out of business due to not being able to make up anything more absurd than reality

Shinku ABOOKEN posted:

lol but also take this to the gbs thread instead thanks and “god” bless

Maluco Marinero posted:

JK Simmons has that quality to take a role, seemingly any role, and then make it impossible to imagine any one else who could be better suited for it.

anthonypants posted:

rip raúl juliá

flakeloaf posted:

he worked so hard to polish that turd

Krakox posted:

Have you actually watched street fighter the movie? It's a fantastic film. Less than 2 hours, jokes everywhere, great props, constant one liners. It's not amazing but it's certainly not boring

Android bad chat: I've had 3 lg v20s and something has failed on all of them. Lg makes bad phones, I'm going to try a xiaomi next

infernal machines posted:

fuchsia on pixelbook, no i don't know why they bothered either

Fiedler posted:

Why does Google keep funding this stupid, lovely project?

Fiedler posted:

Why does Google keep funding this stupid, lovely OS project?

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Third, Google is arrogant. It has taken me years to understand that a company full of humble individuals can still be an arrogant company. Google has the arrogance of the “we”, not the “I”. When a company is as dramatically successful as Google has been, the organization can become afflicted with a sense of invincibility and almost manifest destiny, which leads to tragic outcomes: complacency, not-invented-here syndrome, loss of touch with customers, poor strategic decision-making. So I love the people at Google; they’re super smart and world class and always humble individuals, no matter how badass they are in their respective disciplines. But the company strategy is a mess.

I think this is obvious to anyone who has followed Google’s public launches over the past five or ten years. Google does all sorts of things these days that leave everyone scratching their heads: Picking unwinnable fights and then trying to force their product on us (e.g. Google+), launching products that are universally panned (e.g. Allo), deprecating and turning down well-loved services (e.g. Reader, Hangouts), launching official APIs with competing and incompatible frameworks (e.g. gRPC vs. REST), launching obviously competing stacks that don’t talk to each other (e.g. Android native vs. Dart/Flutter), etc. Their attempts at innovation have been confusing and mostly unsuccessful for close to a decade. Googlers know this is happening and are as frustrated by it as you are, but their leadership is failing them.

But fourth, last, and probably worst of all, Google has become 100% competitor-focused rather than customer focused. They’ve made a weak attempt to pivot from this, with their new internal slogan “Focus on the user and all else will follow.” But unfortunately it’s just lip service. It’s not that they don’t care. The problem is that their incentive structure isn’t aligned for focusing on their customers, so they wind up being too busy and it always gets deprioritized. A slogan isn’t good enough. It takes real effort to set aside time regularly for every employee to interact with your customers. Instead they play the dangerous but easier game of using competitor activity as a proxy for what customers really need. This is where their incentives are focused. Google incentivizes successful feature and product launches, and by far the easiest, safest way to produce those is by copying competitors.

lancemantis posted:

street fighter is from the wonderful era where video game and comic book movies were just studios licensing popular properties and then taking the characters and maybe a little of their backgrounds and just doing whatever the hell they wanted to make a movie; they may have often been terrible but at least they weren't all just pure fan-service

lancemantis posted:

it's like he's arrogant or something