I have a rule of thumb that software works progressively worse the further you are away from the Bay Area - both geographically and culturally. For example, we

I have a rule of thumb that software works progressively worse the further you are away from the Bay Area - both geographically and culturally. For example, we use roundabouts (traffic circles) everywhere here in Australia and google maps still gives pretty terrible directions when driving on them. I was shocked the first time I drove on the 101 just how good the spoken directions are - but it makes sense given the actual Google maps engineers drive that road. If the directions were bad there, they would get fixed. I shudder to think how many bugs must show up for people who use right-to-left languages or use non-ascii charsets - especially before Unicode & emoji were popular. I’m ashamed to admit I don’t even know how to test if my software works properly in languages like Arabic. Of course software made in the Bay Area assumes the whole planet uses pacific time. I’m sorry to throw shade, but that’s entirely in character for the area.