I stand corrected. I did know quite a few Danes who would use English to converse with their Northern neighbours. Either they were outliers, or I assumed the differences between the three big norse languages were roughly equal.
So, I am an American who lived in Sweden for roughly 4 years, long enough to consider myself mostly fluent (reading novels, talking about relatively high level political science questions in Swedish, etc.) and only agree partially with the comment above yours. Norwegians and Swedes would speak in their native tongues regularly but a lot of the time, especially if either person was from a region with a distinct accent (Skåne, i'm looking at you), they would transition to English.
As for Danes, that is a different boat. Their written language is extremely similar to Swedish but their pronunciation is far more guttural and hard to understand for many Swedes. I went to Copenhagen with a bunch of Swedes and they spoke almost exclusively English to the Danes.
"Scandinavian" languages, please. Or even mainland Scandinavian, to distinguish from the (not very mutually intelligible) insular Scandinavian in the Faroes and on Iceland.
> I did know quite a few Danes
That last word is the explanation. :-) More below.
> I assumed the differences between the three big norse languages were roughly equal.
Swedes and Norwegians have little trouble talking with one another in their own languages. Norwegian written language looks more similar to Danish (indeed, bokmål is highly similar) in that a Dane would have no trouble reading Norwegian or vice-versa. Written Swedish differs in more than just the last three letters of the alphabet.
Spoken Danish is a whole other animal. It works out when people try to speak as standardly as possible. Norwegians and Swedes (except some from the very south of Sweden) will struggle with ordinary spoken Danish, and are even likely to turn on subtitling when watching Danish TV shows (likewise there will be Danish subtitling of some Swedish shows).
In some technical settings you'll see more use of English among Scandinavians because there is a non-commonality of terms, and of course it is simply more polite to talk in English when talking someone whose only common language (or indeed only language) is English, and it is especially Danish to do so in order to avoid excluding anyone.
I had a company with a balance of 2bn, and accidentally managed to bankrupt it by transferring everything to my wallet. I should read numbers more carefully. However, the acquisition/investment offers I had gotten were still available when I started a new company, so I managed to sell it for something like 1.5bn before work had even begun on the product.
A few suggestions:
* Finding employees to give raises/bonuses to is tedious when you've got lots of employees. It would be nice to have a link to the employee from the email, or maybe even embed the "interact" button inside the email. (from level up, wage complaint emails)
* The conversion rate seems to be bugged. It always stays at 0% for me.
* It would be nice to see the effectiveness of the ad campaigns/social media campaigns you're running.
* The spending power/market size of a niche seems to only be visible after niche research is done.
* After cashing out the first company, there's not much challenge in getting the 2nd off the ground:
1) Do each of the tech categories yourself/hire the best employees and get over 90% rating.
2) Fire any tech workers, hire marketers to do a $99999 TV campaign, wait for it to accumulate site visitors.
3) Set yourself to do the sales
4) Launch the product and watch the sales skyrocket
I found the early game the most fun, but I imagine that's what you've spent the most time tuning so far.
Fun game, looking forward to future updates :)
Edit: Oh, and the leaderboard seems to be broken at the moment. Or is that just on my end?
I can understand not paying any mind to linux for other developers. It's a mostly unused platform for almost all demographics... except actual developers.
This is not the kind of application I was expecting to "not support linux". That said, They're not actually supporting windows right now either, so I guess for designers only. Oh well.
I was recently looking for services that could handle resizing and cropping. Personally I prefer the ones that act like a proxy, so I can store the images in my own S3 bucket. Here are the services I found:
But even with a generator, as you would get from range in Python 3, the assignment
a, *b = range(10)
makes b into a list. (And I think the star syntax in assignments is only Python 3, as far as I remember Python 2 only has star in argument lists of functions.)
You're right, python2 doesn't have the extended unpacking (star) syntax. Furthermore, this:
>>> a, *b = range(2**128)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
OverflowError: Python int too large to convert to C ssize_t
The `>>>` added to links with the `:before` selector adds a right margin that becomes an unclickable area between the decoration and the actual link. Using padding instead of margin will fix that.
Funny how @coreyhaines has made hugboard.com ("giving the gift of encouragement"), @steveklabnik is a maintainer of hacketyhack, a tool for learning how to program.
"Hackety Hack will teach you the absolute basics of programming from the ground up. No previous programming experience is needed!"
And while you're busy learning the basics, we'll just wait until you release something so we can publicly ridicule you on Twitter because you did something we don't approve of. Hurrah!
Source: I'm Norwegian.