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I was once involved in building the UI for a video game. There was some kind of labels for baseic color selection ... "czerwony" instead of "red" broke everything :F

As a developer working in a German company the question of translating some domain language items into English comes up here and there. Mostly we fail because the German compound words are so f*** precise that we are unable to find short matching English translations...unfortunately our non-native devs have to learn complex words they can't barely pronounce :D

Most of the time we try to use English for technical identifiers and German for business langugage, leading to lets say "interesting" code, but it works for us.

Charset="WTF-8" 2 years ago

OMG, the second screenshot might be actually the application i am working on right now ...

When I read this I was like "Oh, that sounds like my family calendar / collaborative productivty app I am working on for months ". And in the last sentence he mentions

I wanted an app that combines Todos, Habits, Planner, Goals, Pomodoros, Meal tracking, Fasting, Hydration, Packing, Trips, and many many more features.

Surprised Pikachu face.

I was born in Poland and we moved to Germany when I was a kid. As a child I learned it quite easily (and fortunately I was on a school full of migrant children - today you would call it "Problemschule" here in Germany, I guess - so nobody laughed at me), but my parents still don't get used to it after more than 30 years and struggle with it on a daily basis.

This is just wrong if you despise the concept of paid work at all. I spend these 8 hours a day because I am forced to. I need to pay for food and shelter, for my kids education and all the other stuff. If this wasn't the case I would give a fuck and spent all the time with my family, play video games and just live from day to day.

Choosing an IT-career is just the least evil for me.

I just started RC cars with my kids and made first contact with LiPos and find it quite scary. A lipo counts already as damaged when the voltage drops below 3V so you have to use equipment permanently checking the voltage. In RC cars you mostly use some kind of buzzer that fires when a certain threshold value was reached. A "damaged" LiPo might catch fire randomly.

Also you have to store them in fire-proof LiPo bags and recharge them regularly to prevent voltage drops below 3V.

Am I the only one who is not maintaining some kind of private Github repo? I am doing this job for the money and not the "coding fun". If I had the urge to code more, I would just do more hours in my regular job and get paid for that.

Micrsoservices are not DRY

Tell that my team mates putting all stuff into libraries because "we made that already" and building a huge distributed monolith. We combined sucessfully the worst of both worlds!

'don't worry about English, they'll learn that here at school, focus on their native tongues'.

My parents got the same advice after moving from eastern Europe to Germany and they ignored it. They did it because they recognized pretty fast how important it is to "appear German" otherwise you might be disadvantaged. If I had the choice myself I would not repeat the decision my parents made thirty years ago. I am convinced I would have learned German and Englisch without loosing my native language. Scrapping one language for another makes no sense for me.

Hehe, the good old html meta redirect. As a kid in the early days of the web I loved to post redirects to porn websites in guestbooks to check if the website was sanitizing the user content properly. Worked way to often :D

Yes, moving was the reason I started a way more minimalistic lifestyle. I got rid of all the books, video games, action figures and all that other stuff I used to collect. Today it's like an addiction, owning less makes me so much happier and I cant even explain why. No 20 pairs of fancy shoes, no outfit for every occasion, no latest technical device for fun - just less stress.