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Yes and no - but your point is great in general. I think that there are cases where we who are fluent in English just overestimate the English skills of some people and countries.

While internationalization is not always preferable, as you point out, there are times where it means making a service or tool accessible to people who otherwise would not have access to it. We already know how dreadful the GitHub interface can be to newbies, not to mention the English language itself.

GitHub is such an important tool to developers and entrepreneurs that we should think very carefully about barring other people from using it inadvertently.

Internationalization will have adverse effects, definitely, but I still think the discussion of whether making GitHub English-only is worth deterring people who may not otherwise find their way into software development, programming, and the like. Just think of the many other ways people are starting to use GitHub.

But I for one dread the day I receive unsolicited Pull Requests in Russian for an undiscovered 0day vulnerability. :)
Pedant here: de facto, two words, Latin for 'of fact'. That is all.
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Don't need to rationalize it. I have no idea what you're talking about. Speaking as someone who worked in multimedia in the 90s it was the only game in town for five years, and then the least worst option until mpeg4. There was a period when wrapping flash around a video stream got you better browser support, but that's pretty much it.

I can understand hating iTunes and Safari for windows (both of which were, at some point, foisted on people installing QuickTime) but the basic QuickTime libraries, container format, etc. were top notch and remain the best option for working with time-based media.
I'm not so sure. I mean, what's the point especially in the context of programming? I am aware that contrary to popular opinion, there are a lot of geeks who don't speak English very well, yet localizing opensource IMO doesn't make much sense (except some rare cases of very specific local projects).

I'm from a non-en too, but frankly speaking I sometimes got problems reading docs when they use local nomenclature. Programming == English, like it or not.

btw, are there any localized words for 'forking', 'pull request'?
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But would you pay $50/family-member? (Which is presumably a significantly bigger amount of money.)
Last year I worked as a freelancer for a company which sold physical stuff over the Internet (ecommerce). All the code I inherited was procedural PHP written with Swedish comments and variable names.

I speak three languages, Swedish is not one of them. That was an awful summer.
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Not at all. Some of us actually like driving, and the sensation of driving a car that's built for people like us. That's one of the reasons I shake my head when people in the hacker community deride those who spend their newfound wealth on cars: you'd think engineer types would appreciate beautiful machines more, but some people view a car as either a method of commuting or a status symbol, and they don't look too fondly on the latter.
I've thought about doing this. Last time I tried to set up a mail server on a cheap VPS I didn't have enough memory, ClamAV was the biggest culprit. But I think the new 512 RPis would work quite well.
This analogy only muddles the picture. We are talking about private property, but not a home, more like a shop or pub.

Its only raison d'etre is to serve certain guests. We are talking about a commercial server that is managed by a professional admin, and is explicitly open to only some of the public, and it already screens and filters guests, based on various criteria. For example, the server may disallow hotlinking of images, serve some content only upon receipt of a HTTP cookie confirming payment and serve different content for mobile devices, some movies blocked in certain countries, based on IP geolocation. The decision is based on HTTP request data and will of the owner, encoded as server's configuration. Ask yourself, how much different is Google News bot?

How about this analogy instead: ``if I hire a professional bouncer for my high-street shop, and the bouncer stops some people from entering and lets others in, that doesn't mean those let in can indeed walk in''?

Which would be crazy, and press would have a field day with such a shop.
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My point is that everyone used proprietary connectors, it's just some became perceived as non-proprietary because they got lucky. Even today you probably see PS2 (proprietary IBM) mouse and keyboard sockets on a PC backplane. Apple went to the ADB/S-video option with the Mac SE (oh and the serial keyboard cable was a phone cord now that I think about it).
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So apparently this is the new standard in job applications.
Github shouldn't be localized...

Some projects wouldn't be viewed if it ain't in english, no one here almost speaks Chinese do they? :-)

Facebook should be localized, not github.
I just watched a load of videos about it (didn't know it was out, the only one I was aware of was Samsung's S-Voice thing). I think you need to qualify "surpassed", but my take was that it was much, much, faster in a lot of instances but a lot of the time it was not determining context but doing a web search.

It creates the impression of doing the same thing but the context is, I think, being derived largely from Google's web search backend (which already knows what I mean when I type "NY Giants scores"). It may be that this is a sustainable path for Google. Apple has to work out what you mean before it ties you into a solution. Largely Google Now didn't seem to be doing that. (Not criticising one or the other for that.)
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Only one I know that hasn't been mentioned:

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$50 for only THREE 9's? NO THANKS. :p

It sucks that they've removed the free version; it's definitely a step up from managing multiple individual gmail accounts or creating a shared account of some sort. (I use one for one of the side jobs I do; it's a pain in the ass.)

However, $50/year for premium is really friggin good, considering that the cheapest alternative is $10/mo ($100/yr) for hosted Exchange 2010 alone.
I don't remember anyone in the West complaining when he was organising the killing of Soviet soldiers.
btw, are there any localized words for 'forking',
'pull request'?

As someone who lives in a country where English is not the native language, non-English languages will never be able to keep up with developing terminology and neologisms.

It is fine to translate "plain" language, but the terminology and jargon won't work very well when translated. It also has the additional downside of defeating look-ups and google-ability, which is one of the points of terminology. Not just considering the importance of Google, but Stack Overflow in particular.
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From my experience (I'm from non-en), a lot of non-en programmers can understand technical English decently well, but they cannot write it (or at least not enough to express complicated ideas). So they code with comments/issues in their local languages.

I've seen that at a number of local companies and since Github is used by companies too, it might make sense that the company can choose to have it localized.

I tend to agree for open source though : we need a lingua franca and it seems like English is the best pick for that.

In the end, maybe it should be up to the project to choose the interface language.
"Open this website in Chrome or Safari for the best performance."

And wants to work at a general readership newspaper.
I know this is a call for help, but I find it funny that their big screenshot in spanish makes no sense to this native speaker.
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I don't think you can trust any of the vocal Googlers who come out on these threads. Nor do I think they should be considered representative of Google. There are a lot of good people at Google-- probably most of them-- but they aren't especially active on Google-centric threads. What you get on these are people who see any acknowledgment of Google's imperfections as a personal attack on them.

There's a lot of good, and there's some bad, to Google. Whenever I post honestly about the place, there are 3 or 4 people who consistently come out for a fight. I don't mind that they exist and do what they do, because it's free entertainment for me, but regarding "people you can trust"... anyone who trusts them over me is too stupid to live. Trust me or trust none of us.

I am not claiming to be unbiased, and my experience at Google is rather limited. (I was there in what I've been told were the worst 6 months for the company's culture.) However, I learned an incredible amount in that time (more than most people learn in 10 years) about what happens to make good companies go bad.
One way to deal with the problem of people communicating in a language the project does not understand would be to let repo owners set one or two languages for the repo. When users on GitHub en Español see an input box on their repo, it would be labeled: "Este proyecto sólo acepta contribuciones en inglés o alemán." It won't solve the problem completely, but it would at least make expectations clear.
Mostly you're correct, but not entirely: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminent_domain
I want to say this was copied/ inspired by Automattic's
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We're working on moving our site from a straight-up ROR app to hypermedia API on the back-end (still running on Rails) and Javascript/HTML5 on the front.

I've used everything from raw Javascript to jQuery to Dojo to build client-side components against a REST API before, and I'm comfortable with going that direction, but I'm asking the community here if something has come along that supersedes these tools for this sort of application?

In particular we want to develop a modular set of controls that can operate in a stand-alone fashion, composed only of client-side code but can also be combined and hosted in existing Rails-served pages as well as static HTML.

Thoughts?
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Is this the primary motivation for press-release services, to cover your ass with the SEC by pushing publication off on a third party? Or do they offer some other value I'm not aware of?
"Ruby came from Japan. Lua came from Brazil. Python came from the Netherlands."

And all of them use English terms for language identifiers.

English is the lingua franca of IT & software development. As a Brazilian I can tell you that programmers that don't learn at least how to read technical English won't become good practicioners.

And GitHub is a social platform for collaborating on projects. In the vast majority of projects, English is the common language spoken by all participants.

Learn English and get over it.

(I didn't read further into the article. I hope the other suggestions make more sense.)
it was more of a retorical question. in Polish there are even problems with follow/follower - almost every quasi-direct translation is ridiculous or creepy, so in the end every website invents their own or stick with some 'subscribe'. every time I work on a local project for a client I get into the horror of reinventing call2action messages.
These are the retail standard AR Drones with their own Wifi APs and telnetd enabled. It's not the organizers job to secure them. Would you expect the Defcon organizers to do the same for the attendees?
Why not contact them?
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Non-native English speaker here, I volunteer at several companies to translate their interfaces.

Almost all people can read basic English (especially those who access Github), so translating the Github interface seems rather pointless to me. Of course, translating the support articles would really help accessibility for those who don't know English as well as native speakers.

Translating interfaces makes people think they can use their language to communicate on a site. Translating only the support articles helps people understand the site, but they will quickly realize that the site itself prefers English-only communication.
My concern with this obvious suggestion for the problem is that GitHub has done extremely little to improve the Issue system, Pull Requests aside where merging and continuous integration has been improved.

Imagine being the proprietor of Twitter Bootstrap and having to deal with this. What is an acceptable rate of admission of issue creators who are not proficient in English?

If 20% of "international" users are undeterred by the warnings and labels, the repo owners should still receive a free coupon for Prozac from GitHub. :)
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That's only half of the story:

> AllThingsD reports that Google has now re-indexed newspapers in the Copiepresse group. This is the right move and also a very self-interested one by Google. If it were to “punish” publishers that didn’t want to be included in Google verticals (e.g., News, Places, Shopping) antitrust investigators would use that as evidence against the company.

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Why can't we have both? I hope to see commoditized commuting in my lifetime. My commute from work won't be on public transport (at least, not in the traditional sense), but rather in a car that is cheap to buy, cheap to use, and fully autonomous. This leaves me to spend money that would otherwise be spent on my commuter/family/fun all-in-one car on a car that does the fun bits of driving quite a lot better.
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For some reason I just can't see corded keyboards as the future of small touch devices. There are lots of cool things that can be done with swipes and gestures, increasing the productivity of one or both thumbs, but unless you're just thinking about a keyboard with a bunch of thumb combinations for everyone to learn (which would look just as clunky as qwerty on a small screen) Then multi touch keyboards will only compound any problems qwerty has right now.
I've spent more time on G+ than FB for most of this year. I pretty much am once a week on FB and daily on G+.
> I see bitcoins as the storage of value, but not method of payment.

If they are a storage of value, you have to be able to buy and sell them. Therefore exchanging them has to be possible. I don't see big step from this to actually using them as a payment. Instead of exchanging traditional money with them, you just exchange the goods and services directly.
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Reminds me of the good old bad old days of web design, mis-using elements to make the browser do what you want. I don't think it's such a bad thing, although these days not needed so much.
The bar to entry to newcomers is probably more of a UX/usability problem than one of internationalization; that I agree with you on.

Translating the support docs is one suggestion I think is unequivocally good, and something that should be done.

I think internationalization is great in a read-only capacity, but when non-English speakers start posting Issues, comments and Pull Requests, that's where it starts to turn into a problem.

GitHub has very little to translate in the first place, as it's very sparse on prose, so aside from the question of support docs, we are probably making mountain out of mole hills, since the remaining English is jargon and not beholden to internationalization concerns.
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Because obviously you'd trust Google's numbers promoting their own service rather than your own experience rollseyes
Spending any money on 3D printers is a complete waste of resources when building a new facility like this. Spend the money on the building's infrastructure and networking which will still be in use long after its finished and not just for the PR launch.
I am failing to see what the big stink is about "giving up one's privacy" when using "the cloud." Yes, there are some shady providers that might put their hands in the cookie jar at their convenience. That sucks. Google isn't one of those providers, though. What advantage would they gain from reading people's mail at a whim?

Regardless, one's privacy is already compromised the moment they sign up for Internet service; that information can be made available to the right people after one subpoena.
Well, as many mentioned, 70k might not be so much for trucks... autonomous delivery of goods and services probably will save A LOT of money (and the driver doesn't need to sleep :) )
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It's likely possible to tweak various threshold distances based on country specifics, laws, user preferences, and further testing.

The car can track other cars now! I expect the trend to continue: with time it will accurately track bikers, cyclists, joggers, wild animals of all sizes, stationary obstacles, holes in road etc.

Joggers and cyclists might not be as affected as one might think. They sit higher than car drivers and avoid the beam so. On the other hand, high-powered LED bike lights, 2000 lumen and around, with no optics to form a beam, can easily blind a driver...
It always ends up sounding incredibly corny. There is basically no way around it. :)
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You don't need that much memory if you're setting up a simple IMAP server; you could probably do it on a super cheap instance on AWS, Rackspace or similar.
"The whole point of linux is being able to not needing to use other operating system or propiertary software".

This is clearly bollocks. Bitcoin is just a tool, like linux, and can be used for numerous different purposes in numerous different ways. There is no "point" in Bitcoin, it is open source software that everyone can use as they will.

Some people clearly seem to think that bitcoin is meant for something special, in bitcoin community and outside of it. The funny thing is that even they can't have any control over how bitcoin is used, except for their own usage of course.
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Split keyboards are patent encumbered. I remember some software project that allowed users to type one handed on a regular keyboard, with half the keyboard mapped to the other half when a key was held / toggled. They had to stop because of patents. (I can't find it in Google at the moment, I'll try again a bit later.)

People are hesitant to move from what they know to something that 'might' be better (qwerty is good enough for most people, and if you've never had RSI you probably don't care enough to move to dvorak) - couple that with innovation-stifling patents and new keyboards don't have much chance.
I have several non-english projects on Github and (although I am proficient enough to read/write basic english) I'd like to see the user interface in my language.
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"You can get a perfectly good used car for less than that"

In your country. Over here (Uruguay), cars are taxed to hell (the most expensive cars in the world I believe), so an extra U$ 5.000 won't be much of a difference to those who can afford a car.

Same in Singapore or Hong Kong, where cars themselves might be cheap, but license plates or parking spaces are incredibly expensive. An autonomous car should be HUGE in Singapore.

(Used car imports are banned here)
I like to imagine that career development is sitting back and watching it grow. Maybe adding a shrub here or there.

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Wow, that's a lot of changes! It sort of looks like you went from an OSX-esque appearance to Metro... that's quite interesting.
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Great plugin, I'll be replacing some datepickers in a project I am currently involved with these
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In Swedish you usually say "forka", "pulla" thus making the English verbs into Swedish forms, works quite well.
I wish we'd stop comparing Google+ to monolithic "social networks" as if it weren't exactly what the name implies, the next iteration on top of all of Google.
I think i18n makes sense - for docs. For getting people up and running. For explaining the benefits of github.
Slashdot used to have Futurama quotes in their (X-Bender and X-Fry iirc). Don't seem to any more however.
It's always interesting to read RMS' posts, though I don't agree with a lot of them.

In this case, he's got a very valid point (I disabled the adverts on my Ubuntu install), but he uses such over the top language that it makes much of his writing seem like a parody.

Ubuntu sending all desktop searches to Amazon by default (even if it's via a proxy) isn't cool, and isn't what most users would expect, but I don't believe screeds like this aren't going to make Canonical think again.