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I've seen people post technical questions on Facebook groups like "Jquery Brasil" (sic), by describing the problem/error and attaching an screenshot of the source code. So, yeah, there's a lot of potential for this.
FYI, Brasil is how you spell Brazil in Portuguese. "I am from Brazil." // "Sou do Brasil." More fun fact, it's pronounced brah-zew like you're saying eww gross.
But I understand the initiative. If brazilians can't write in portuguese, imagine their english.
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LOL as a Brazilian, that was my first thought too! The most skilled developers will continue to use the global SO and only the "pesky" will move to the new site. The only real drawback is for the youth who doesn't speak english well yet, and now has one more incentive to never really learn it.
Exactly what I thought as well, [as a Brazilian myself] I predict this PT-SO will be filled with "easy" questions easily answered by a search, and should have a very low level of actual good content. I'm not pulling this out of nowhere, I tried participating in multiple Brazilian programming communities, but it's always the same beginner-level-you-could-have-figured-it-out-yourself type of questions. As for the youth…
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When I was interviewing with Stack Exchange, one of the employees there made this off-hand comment (not direct quote, but probably close): "Brazil is seeing a lot of out sourcing work with high quality output but for whatever reason they just don't seem that interested in learning English, so we are localizing the site"
That is a huge generalization. The developers that are closest to me all have English proficiency to some degree. But that's a biased sample, so I am inclined to agree with the statement. As a brazilian, I am not sure why that is, but I can make some guesses: - Public education sucks (at least before you get to the university level) so we can just disregard that. - Top private schools are outstanding. There's a lot o…
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This is appalling, but sometimes in my work I can better express myself in English than in my mother tongue. It's not because there is much more material in English, but because there is so much high quality material in English. With this we are basically encouraging removal of high quality material from the web. Remeber: the internets are english and there are no girls on the internet :D
How is this a removal of content?