nelsnelson [comrade/them, love/loves]

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  • If you do a lot of coding in popular software languages like Java and Python, eventually you will run into open source projects whose comments and documentation and issues are all in Mandarin. There are also Chinese versions of Stack Overflow, where I have to use Google Translate to read the discussion threads.

    It will always be more difficult to understand a language which is not your first, but if there’s a language on this planet that would be useful to learn aside from English, it’s Mandarin.

    I am personally not familiar with any differences in major frameworks between Chinese software ecosystems and American/European ones. But that is surely just my ignorance as a foreigner. Please let us know what you find.













  • Another way to be a class traitors or to betray and bully your fellow workers? Call them “technicians”, meaning that their work is boring and doesn’t require them to leave their comfort zone?

    I don’t know what is worse, making people learn how to do computer work in the first place (which is all just insanely ridiculous conventions other supposedly smart humans have invented but which then require ridiculous amounts of training to use effectively), or, pretending that the “ideal” is to build systems which are so self-sufficient that they eliminate any need for human operators or improvers and celebrating that as the ideal.