Why Stack Overflow in Portuguese? • Hacker News Board

Re: Why Stack Overflow in Portuguese?

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Post by daniel-cussen » Thu, Feb 13, 2014, 6:52 PM UTC

dmunoz wrote: post #3

> Without Googling, name any famous developer from Japan. Or China. Or Russia. Many Ruby developers won't have a problem with this.

Taiichi Yuasa and Masami Hagiya, are both from Japan, and I found their names again without googling. I just fired up ecl.

Re: Why Stack Overflow in Portuguese?

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Post by Argorak » Thu, Feb 13, 2014, 6:52 PM UTC

With a few friends, i've been running a ruby bulletin board in german and found that there is a definite need for localized assistance.

While quite a few people can read english docs okay, it is far harder to ask proper questions and interact with people. There is always need for clarification. Assistance is far easier without a language barrier.

Re: Why Stack Overflow in Portuguese?

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Feb 13, 2014, 6:53 PM UTC

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Re: Why Stack Overflow in Portuguese?

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Post by NLips » Thu, Feb 13, 2014, 6:53 PM UTC

fauria wrote: post #11

> Without Googling, name any famous developer from Japan. Or China. Or Russia. Yukihiro Matsumoto. Rasmus Lerdorf. Guido van Rossum.

Japan. Greenland. Netherlands.

1/3

Re: Why Stack Overflow in Portuguese?

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Post by msantos » Thu, Feb 13, 2014, 6:54 PM UTC

dmunoz wrote: post #3

> Without Googling, name any famous developer from Japan. Or China. Or Russia. Many Ruby developers won't have a problem with this.

Roberto Ierusalimschy

Waldemar Celes

Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo

The folks behind Lua (programming language)

Re: Why Stack Overflow in Portuguese?

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Post by pcrh » Thu, Feb 13, 2014, 6:54 PM UTC

fauria wrote: post #11

> Without Googling, name any famous developer from Japan. Or China. Or Russia. Yukihiro Matsumoto. Rasmus Lerdorf. Guido van Rossum.

Would Satoshi count? (I'm not even a programmer!)

Re: Why Stack Overflow in Portuguese?

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Post by astrodust » Thu, Feb 13, 2014, 6:54 PM UTC

fauria wrote: post #11

> Without Googling, name any famous developer from Japan. Or China. Or Russia. Yukihiro Matsumoto. Rasmus Lerdorf. Guido van Rossum.

Rasmus Ledorf is Greenlandic and moved to Canada in 1980. I'm pretty sure he knew English before he wrote PHP.

Re: Why Stack Overflow in Portuguese?

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Post by fidotron » Thu, Feb 13, 2014, 6:54 PM UTC

frade33 wrote: post #9

Adoption of English language is one of the major reasons, why 3rd world countries like our, India and Pakistan are thriving in IT. I feel sad for nations, who are stubborn in their adoption of English language, merely out of political reasons. Even from a political perspective, this is sad, because you can't convey your point of view to others. Oh and by the way, India is 2nd and Pakistan is 3rd largest country by nu…

Not to disagree, but India and Pakistan are also great demonstrations that even if you can speak the words without cultural context you'll struggle. By far the most successful teams I've seen in India have been led by those that were educated in the west and went back to India (seemingly a growing trend), since they can effectively act as translators of intent.

Re: Why Stack Overflow in Portuguese?

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Post by ishener » Thu, Feb 13, 2014, 6:55 PM UTC

instead of starting a brand new stack overflow in another language they should think of some way of letting people translate questions & answers and earn karma for that. this way, like wikipedia, you can always go from one language to another for the translation

Re: Why Stack Overflow in Portuguese?

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Post by dsr_ » Thu, Feb 13, 2014, 6:55 PM UTC

When I tell someone I work at Stack Exchange, my absolute favorite response is:

    “I basically learned to code from posts I found on Stack Overflow”

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While I've never had anyone tell me that, I don't think I'd be happy to hear that in an interview.