> Without Googling, name any famous developer from Japan. Or China. Or Russia.
Yukihiro Matsumoto. Rasmus Lerdorf. Guido van Rossum.
Why Stack Overflow in Portuguese?
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Re: Why Stack Overflow in Portuguese?
#12I have strongly mixed feelings on this. When I was a kid my family moved to Brazil for a couple of years and I learned Portuguese. When I was about 20 I moved to Chile and learned Spanish. Speaking the language of the culture you are in is hugely important - and not very easy. So on the one hand if the culture of programming is in English (is it?) then I would strongly encourage anyone wanting to program to learn Eng…
I have similar mixed feelings (Spanish is my native language, but I work on an English environment)
Re: Why Stack Overflow in Portuguese?
#13> Without Googling, name any famous developer from Japan. Or China. Or Russia. Many Ruby developers won't have a problem with this.
Not sure if Igor Sysoev is famous or not (his name wasn't remembered!), but his product certainly is.
Re: Why Stack Overflow in Portuguese?
#14> Without Googling, name any famous developer from Japan. Or China. Or Russia. Yukihiro Matsumoto. Rasmus Lerdorf. Guido van Rossum.
Egor Homakov :)
Re: Why Stack Overflow in Portuguese?
#15> Without Googling, name any famous developer from Japan. Or China. Or Russia. Yukihiro Matsumoto. Rasmus Lerdorf. Guido van Rossum.
You're one for three.
Re: Why Stack Overflow in Portuguese?
#16> Without Googling, name any famous developer from Japan. Or China. Or Russia. Yukihiro Matsumoto. Rasmus Lerdorf. Guido van Rossum.
Rasmus is from Greenland and Guido is from the Netherlands, not China or Russia.
Re: Why Stack Overflow in Portuguese?
#17Nein!
Re: Why Stack Overflow in Portuguese?
#18It would be pretty sweet if they have some process of linking duplicate questions between the two, or if bilingual folks could ask questions in multiple languages. Translating questions and/or answers could be as valuable as answering questions.
Re: Why Stack Overflow in Portuguese?
#19> We do want as much centralization as possible Yup, totally centralized. Spent half an hour figuring out where my question should go (StackOverflow vs Programming vs ServerFault vs SuperUser vs Ubuntu vs Unix-and-Linux). Ended up not asking the question at all. Shall they open some foreign embassies, I guess users'll spend 10 minutes more deciding in which language should they ask (i.e. whenever they prefer native l…
The idea of centralization is not inherently incompatible with the idea of categorization.
And it's really not that hard in most cases. Is it an objective question about writing code? It goes on Stack Overflow. Is it about programming as a broader topic? It goes on Programmers. Is it about servers or systems administration? It goes on ServerFault. Is it about general computing? It goes on SuperUser. Is it a highly subjective question about programming? Stack Exchange is not interested in your question.
(I do agree that SO and Programmers seem more like an artificial division than natural categories, but I still don't find it that hard to figure out whether a question is good for SO.)