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Guess what : the rest of the world has had to learn English for decades to be able to access interesting knowledge. I'm French and these days I came to the poi
by jmnicolas 12y ago
Guess what : the rest of the world has had to learn English for decades to be able to access interesting knowledge.
I'm French and these days I came to the point that I don't even bother to Google anything related to programming in French. I just Google it in English and now I find useful answers (thank you Stackoverflow).
I guess the wheel is turning and soon we will have to learn a bit of Chinese to access fresh knowledge. The barrier of entry is higher though (it doesn't even involve the same parts of the brain than other languages).
- akiselev 12y agoChuck isn't complaining about the language, he's complaining about the hostility of big IC manufacturers to sharing their data. For all but the most popular/trivial chips, you have to sign an NDA with the manufacturer which means you have to first get them to give you the time of day, which isn't possible if you don't have large volumes and plans to purchase tons of chips from them. Except for companies like Alwinner (which isn't "western" by any means), most of the documentation is in English but getting it is so hard we usually have to fallback to Chinese versions, which are shared more easily due to legal and cultural norms.