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Check out the number of questions on those sites: Pt: 140,876 Ru: 322,061 Es: 122,603 Jp: 22,743 Stackoverflow.com (EN): 19,580,539

by wenc 6y ago

rglullis 6y ago
Does it matter? If I spoke no English, I'd rather have 1% of the equivalent English content in Portuguese than 0%. And having the site such as pt.SO is at least a sign that there is a significant number of people that prefer non-English to keep the discussion. Also, there is a good amount of people that can read something from English SO, but would never contribute. Having a language-specific site is a chance for them to help more people in their situation. Again better than nothing.
- viklove 6y ago
  Seems like you'd just be better off learning English so your ability to find help online isn't hamstrung.
  - rglullis 6y ago
    So imagine a typical teenager from Brazil that is finishing his (very bad quality) public high-school and has some interest in technology. He likes to tinker with things, electronics which he can find books in Portuguese. He has access to a computer and manages to install Linux, wants to start about programming. Do you really think that the proper advice you'd give to him is "Learn proper English first"? More likely than not, you are just killing his interest in learning and shooting down the best chance he would have to lift himself out of poverty. Remind me to come back to this in 10 years when China surpasses the US in production of, say, AI Research. Let's see if HN will still be okay with the idea of "just go and learn Mandarin" to find stuff online.
mappu 6y ago
Stackoverflow doesn't have a Chinese version - what domestic site is popular there? (And how many questions does it have?) I looked at Segmentfault (CN) but I can't see any total number of questions - but if I refresh StackOverflow the 5 most recent questions were all asked within the last 1 minute, whereas on SegmentFault the 5 most recent questions were asked within the last 20 minutes. Although it might be biased by the current timezone.

Check out the number of questions on those sites: Pt: 140,876 Ru: 322,061 Es: 122,603 Jp: 22,743 Stackoverflow.com (EN): 19,580,539

by wenc 6y ago

Check out the number of questions on those sites: Pt: 140,876 Ru: 322,061 Es: 122,603 Jp: 22,743 Stackoverflow.com (EN): 19,580,539

rglullis 6y ago

Does it matter? If I spoke no English, I'd rather have 1% of the equivalent English content in Portuguese than 0%. And having the site such as pt.SO is at least a sign that there is a significant number of people that prefer non-English to keep the discussion. Also, there is a good amount of people that can read something from English SO, but would never contribute. Having a language-specific site is a chance for them to help more people in their situation. Again better than nothing.

viklove 6y ago
Seems like you'd just be better off learning English so your ability to find help online isn't hamstrung.
- rglullis 6y ago
  So imagine a typical teenager from Brazil that is finishing his (very bad quality) public high-school and has some interest in technology. He likes to tinker with things, electronics which he can find books in Portuguese. He has access to a computer and manages to install Linux, wants to start about programming. Do you really think that the proper advice you'd give to him is "Learn proper English first"? More likely than not, you are just killing his interest in learning and shooting down the best chance he would have to lift himself out of poverty. Remind me to come back to this in 10 years when China surpasses the US in production of, say, AI Research. Let's see if HN will still be okay with the idea of "just go and learn Mandarin" to find stuff online.

mappu 6y ago

Stackoverflow doesn't have a Chinese version - what domestic site is popular there? (And how many questions does it have?) I looked at Segmentfault (CN) but I can't see any total number of questions - but if I refresh StackOverflow the 5 most recent questions were all asked within the last 1 minute, whereas on SegmentFault the 5 most recent questions were asked within the last 20 minutes. Although it might be biased by the current timezone.