Why would developers might want to speak/understand English?
1) For communication with fellow developers regarding assistance and collaboration
2) Write better code
Good programming style, which includes good comments(in whatever language that code will be maintained), and code that is easy to read and modify is just that - good code. Someone writing in C# in Russia or Korea, if they write good code, anyone in Brazil or US would be able to read their program and understand what its doing.
I've seen code that is unreadable and unmodifiable written by English speaking contractors right here, on the American soil.
And their ability to grok English didn't impact the goodness of their code.
And whether you speak and understand English you can write either good or crappy code.
Why not develop an app that teaches English? There are many more resources available in English to learn from.
And when people know how to speak English they should be able to communicate, grow, develop and learn on their own.
You will give them the tools to learn.
Well... if you're in a situation like that, give them a helping hand, pull their antenna up, push them out from under the cover saying "Better reception!!!" and get your camera phone out and win a few bucks on America's cough Stupidest... ahem... I mean... Funniest videos.
Americans lose their freedoms in the name of fighting terrorism. Now the Chinese will lose their freedoms in the name of fighting SPAM. *sigh* Canada keeps looking warmer and warmer.
Where you have no freedoms and government censors everything, but you just don't care...
hmm... does this mean that anyone in WA who types "online gambling site x is mighty fine" anywhere online is going to have govt peeps knocking on his door and putting him/her away for a million and billion of years?
I wonder whats next. Porn sites?!?!
Did somebody say separation of state and church?!
Wow, I had no idea I was missing out on such a big part of the REAL world. [goes into the corner and cries, cause Tibetian monks and llamas run away from me]... [after some time]... [singing] Ooooonneeeeee is the looooonliiieessstttt nuuuuuummm...
By the way, good movie, "Girl in the Cafe". Liked it a lot, not sure if you will, but I think its worth checking out. Hope you like it. -Cheers and lets fight this together, cause together we can do more.
Sigh. I wasn't arguing that not trying to prevent global warming is a good idea, but that the world hunger is a more eminent problem at a present time.
If we do not help improve the living condition in third world countries NOW, those people would be the first ones to go when global warming gets worse.
As your articles point out.
And yes, I know that there is enough food being produced in the world today, by US alone, to stop world hunger and the reason why it still exists is political. I wish there was something that I could do about it directly, like I do things every day to help prevent global warming. I recycle and drive more fuel efficient car and eat less gassy foods, etc.;-)
It just makes me feel more helpless in the world-hunger-problem case.
I believe that if half of US population signed a petition or boycotted or did something to show their concern about the world hunger, US government won't do anything about it. Whereas if half of US population exchanged to a more fuel efficient car, for example, not to say that it will prevent global warming altogether, but there will be a difference.
Also, not to say that either is going to happen, but those of us who are concerned about both issues, can do more or feel like we can help more in one case rather than the other.
That's why I think that improving conditions and helping third world countries NOW is a more important problem.
Your point, is that we should try to prevent global warming, so that WE don't die. My point is that its more important now that to help improve OTHER people's living conditions, so that they don't die. Global warming or not.
Re: Yeah, that's the ticket. We may be blindly barreling towards extinction, but at least we're enjoying the ride.
Hear! Hear!... Another piece of steak-that-comes-from-a-cow-that-is-genetically-en gineered-and-raised-on-its-own-waste anyone?
Re: trying to give back to the environment is other ways that our natural waste.
uhmmm... [looks from side to side] did you miss the point where they say that cleaner air makes for uv rays reach Earth eaiser, or?!...
Re: we can think and make conscious decisions (as well as self sacrifices)
There goes another human that is willing to self sacrifice their reproduction for greater purpose!... Thank god for consciousness and free will!!!
Re: Who cares if species make themselves extinct "naturally?" We don't want it to happen to us.
We don't? Why not?
Hmmm... let me see, cause we die? Cause our grand-...-kids die? We destory a planet and there won't be a planet for our grand-grand-grand-...-kids to live on?!
So, you're caring about someone who may or may not even exist? How about caring about someone who actually exists right now and is starving and dying, RIGHT THIS MINUTE? Shall I give you examples or are you all up on the world's issues?
Re:
However, I would say that in some sense, we (humans) ceased to be "natural" when we acquired the ability to divorce ourselves (and other species) from the process of evolution. Other species, generally speaking, stand or fall on their strengths and their weaknesses. If unable to adapt to changing circumstances, they die. We have the ability to prevent that process from working on us. Instead of adapting ourselves, we create new technologies to mitigate changing circumstances. You could argue that this is not a "natural" process.
Thank you! One sensible thing I've read so far into this discussion.
Your argument If we're products of evolution, then we humans are supremely natural. is based on the claim/theory that evolution is natural. Who said that? Darwin? Hence the Darwin's theory of evolution? Keyword being "theory".
Maybe evolution isn't natural. Maybe it was some alien race's plan to slowly destroy Earth to make way for hyperspace, interstellar bypass or some tenth grader's lab experiment?! A tenth grader of a more advanced alien race, but still... a tenth grader. At the end of the experiment, he'll write a paper proving his thesis that creating X with certain characteristics always leads to X's self destruction. (X here being a human or human race.)
Cheers.
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Why would developers might want to speak/understand English?
1) For communication with fellow developers regarding assistance and collaboration
2) Write better code
Good programming style, which includes good comments(in whatever language that code will be maintained), and code that is easy to read and modify is just that - good code. Someone writing in C# in Russia or Korea, if they write good code, anyone in Brazil or US would be able to read their program and understand what its doing.
I've seen code that is unreadable and unmodifiable written by English speaking contractors right here, on the American soil. And their ability to grok English didn't impact the goodness of their code.
And whether you speak and understand English you can write either good or crappy code.
390,000 - living expenses ...
that doesn't leave much to pay the 415,000
So like could he sell a few more to come up with the fine duckets!?
Why not develop an app that teaches English? There are many more resources available in English to learn from. And when people know how to speak English they should be able to communicate, grow, develop and learn on their own. You will give them the tools to learn.
"Help me Obi Wan! You're my last hope ..."
Those who seek the destruction of the one, monolithic state church should think about what they're wishing for. uhmm... american democracy?!?! ...
damn it ... [withdraws automatic credit card payment to the church of scientology] ...
I wonder ... is paying the church tax helps you advance into heaven?!
Uhmm... I think its The Government, as in any government of any country. ...
Certainly gives another meaning to the ... 'land of the free' phraze.
OMG!!!! We're all going to die!!!!!!
Well... if you're in a situation like that, give them a helping hand, pull their antenna up, push them out from under the cover saying "Better reception!!!" and get your camera phone out and win a few bucks on America's cough Stupidest ... ahem ... I mean ... Funniest videos.
Americans lose their freedoms in the name of fighting terrorism. Now the Chinese will lose their freedoms in the name of fighting SPAM. *sigh* Canada keeps looking warmer and warmer. Where you have no freedoms and government censors everything, but you just don't care ...
RE:" ... it has been predicted by various studies that we would run out of IPv4 addresses around 2010 ... "
And then myspace happened ...
hmm... does this mean that anyone in WA who types "online gambling site x is mighty fine" anywhere online is going to have govt peeps knocking on his door and putting him/her away for a million and billion of years? I wonder whats next. Porn sites?!?! Did somebody say separation of state and church?!
Wow, I had no idea I was missing out on such a big part of the REAL world. ... ... [singing] Ooooonneeeeee is the looooonliiieessstttt nuuuuuummm...
[goes into the corner and cries, cause Tibetian monks and llamas run away from me]
[after some time]
Who cares?!
"What do white people have to be upset about? Banana Republic is out of khakis?!?!"
Ok. :-)
By the way, good movie, "Girl in the Cafe". Liked it a lot, not sure if you will, but I think its worth checking out. Hope you like it.
-Cheers and lets fight this together, cause together we can do more.
Whaaaaat? I think it is every species right to decide if they are natural or not!
... El Natural Vogon!!
;-)
Just think
Enjoy!
Sigh. I wasn't arguing that not trying to prevent global warming is a good idea, but that the world hunger is a more eminent problem at a present time. If we do not help improve the living condition in third world countries NOW, those people would be the first ones to go when global warming gets worse. As your articles point out.
;-)
It just makes me feel more helpless in the world-hunger-problem case.
And yes, I know that there is enough food being produced in the world today, by US alone, to stop world hunger and the reason why it still exists is political. I wish there was something that I could do about it directly, like I do things every day to help prevent global warming. I recycle and drive more fuel efficient car and eat less gassy foods, etc.
I believe that if half of US population signed a petition or boycotted or did something to show their concern about the world hunger, US government won't do anything about it. Whereas if half of US population exchanged to a more fuel efficient car, for example, not to say that it will prevent global warming altogether, but there will be a difference.
Also, not to say that either is going to happen, but those of us who are concerned about both issues, can do more or feel like we can help more in one case rather than the other.
That's why I think that improving conditions and helping third world countries NOW is a more important problem.
Your point, is that we should try to prevent global warming, so that WE don't die. My point is that its more important now that to help improve OTHER people's living conditions, so that they don't die. Global warming or not.
Thank you very much.
Only if they would like to be. ;-)
Re: Yeah, that's the ticket. We may be blindly barreling towards extinction, but at least we're enjoying the ride. Hear! Hear! ... Another piece of steak-that-comes-from-a-cow-that-is-genetically-en gineered-and-raised-on-its-own-waste anyone?
Re: trying to give back to the environment is other ways that our natural waste. uhmmm ... [looks from side to side] did you miss the point where they say that cleaner air makes for uv rays reach Earth eaiser, or?! ...
Re: we can think and make conscious decisions (as well as self sacrifices)
There goes another human that is willing to self sacrifice their reproduction for greater purpose! ... Thank god for consciousness and free will!!!
Re: Who cares if species make themselves extinct "naturally?" We don't want it to happen to us. We don't? Why not? Hmmm... let me see, cause we die? Cause our grand-...-kids die? We destory a planet and there won't be a planet for our grand-grand-grand-...-kids to live on?! So, you're caring about someone who may or may not even exist? How about caring about someone who actually exists right now and is starving and dying, RIGHT THIS MINUTE? Shall I give you examples or are you all up on the world's issues?
Re: However, I would say that in some sense, we (humans) ceased to be "natural" when we acquired the ability to divorce ourselves (and other species) from the process of evolution. Other species, generally speaking, stand or fall on their strengths and their weaknesses. If unable to adapt to changing circumstances, they die. We have the ability to prevent that process from working on us. Instead of adapting ourselves, we create new technologies to mitigate changing circumstances. You could argue that this is not a "natural" process. Thank you! One sensible thing I've read so far into this discussion.
Your argument If we're products of evolution, then we humans are supremely natural. is based on the claim/theory that evolution is natural. Who said that? Darwin? Hence the Darwin's theory of evolution? Keyword being "theory". Maybe evolution isn't natural. Maybe it was some alien race's plan to slowly destroy Earth to make way for hyperspace, interstellar bypass or some tenth grader's lab experiment?! A tenth grader of a more advanced alien race, but still ... a tenth grader. At the end of the experiment, he'll write a paper proving his thesis that creating X with certain characteristics always leads to X's self destruction. (X here being a human or human race.)
Cheers.