Why Stack Overflow in Portuguese?

#1

Post by jaydles » Thu, Feb 13, 2014, 6:15 PM UTC

Why Stack Overflow in Portuguese?
blog.stackoverflow.com

Re: Why Stack Overflow in Portuguese?

#2

Post by berdon » Thu, Feb 13, 2014, 6:33 PM UTC

Was anyone else expecting the post to detail their plan to "translate" non-english Stack Exchange sites to English to continue content centralization?

Re: Why Stack Overflow in Portuguese?

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Post by dmunoz » Thu, Feb 13, 2014, 6:37 PM UTC

> Without Googling, name any famous developer from Japan. Or China. Or Russia.

Many Ruby developers won't have a problem with this.

Re: Why Stack Overflow in Portuguese?

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Post by ScotterC » Thu, Feb 13, 2014, 6:39 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.

Yup. Matz immediately came to mind. Also, to the question of english but not native would be Salvatore of Redis fame.

Re: Why Stack Overflow in Portuguese?

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Post by iopq » Thu, Feb 13, 2014, 6:40 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.

I've never written anything in Ruby and I know Matz

Re: Why Stack Overflow in Portuguese?

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Post by drdaeman » Thu, Feb 13, 2014, 6:40 PM UTC

> 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 language or bigger community) or duplicate the question.

Re: Why Stack Overflow in Portuguese?

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Post by te_platt » Thu, Feb 13, 2014, 6:40 PM UTC

I 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 English. On the other hand, helping inject a programming environment into another language seems a worthy goal as well. On balance it seems like stackoverflow is doing the right thing.

Re: Why Stack Overflow in Portuguese?

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Post by bluedino » Thu, Feb 13, 2014, 6:41 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.

Matz came to mind the second I read that. And Russia? Alexey Pajitnov (Tetris).

Re: Why Stack Overflow in Portuguese?

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Post by frade33 » Thu, Feb 13, 2014, 6:41 PM UTC

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 number of English language Speakers, 1st of course is USA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-sp...

Moreover, Do I need to name key Google and Microsoft Employees, who were born and bred in India too. :)

Re: Why Stack Overflow in Portuguese?

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Post by gesman » Thu, Feb 13, 2014, 6:41 PM UTC

printf ("Olá, mundo!");