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Another attempt two-ply your puns in the lounge? Probably planning the posts at night and then sharing them bidet.
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Shouldn't that be,
OriginalGriff wrote: Regardless of your nationality, when urine the bathroom, European…
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shouldn't stand for that, unless Uruguay
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I'm creating a new ASP.NET Core 3.1 Razor Pages application with individual user authentication using an in-app store (so SQL Server, as opposed to (Azure) AD).
The cool part is that Microsoft gives you a complete out-of-the-box register, login and profile solution, complete with 2FA and external authentication (OAuth 2.0).
It's all hidden inside some package so it doesn't clutter your solution either, although you have the option to scaffold each page individually if you like.
Really great, kudos to Microsoft, except...
IT'S ALL IN ELEPHANTING ENGLISH!
I've searched for a way to localize the default pages, but I can't find a proper solution.
When I scaffold the pages they have hard-coded strings in the HTML as well as the C# code.
Also, you really can't beat logic like this (if some string that the user is going to read starts with "Error"):
var statusMessageClass = Model.StartsWith("Error") ? "danger" : "success"; I've scaffolded all pages and I'm replacing all hard-coded strings with resource file references
It's quite a lot, so it keeps me off the streets and working for my money.
Still better than doing it all myself, but if you're going to offer this as one of the biggest companies on the planet, at least think about such stuff
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Don't they teach you in the Netherlands that the planet begins at Maine and ends at California?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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¿Que?
(43 million Americans speak Spanish as a first language)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Muy pocos estadounidenses hablan inglés; La mayoría habla americano.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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OriginalGriff wrote: 43 million Americans Not anymore!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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I believe they call it "Mexican" over there, not "Spanish".
My plan is to live forever ... so far so good
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I thought it started at Maine and ended at Coon
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We had many similar issues at my last firm which was a US (but 'international') company. On a number of occasions I tried to get changes made so things worked everywhere, not just in the USA. The response was always the same, "We'll take that under advisement". Which is a phrase that I have never really understood; but I am pretty sure it means, "screw you buster!".
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There's a chicken-and-eggs concept in play, here.
They may look at their sales and decide that for the number of overseas sales that have in non-English speaking countries it's not worth the cost of creating/maintaining the application in alternate languages.
But,
It may be that their sales would increase dramatically if they did add the additional language(s).
Were I to guess, I'd say that the answer may well depend upon the size of the company and how much they can afford to gamble on such a venture.
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Well it applied to some very basic issues which they just refused to change, and which would have cost a couple of man days effort from the lowliest data entry clerk at the plant.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: "We'll take that under advisement". Which is a phrase that I have never really understood; but I am pretty sure it means, "screw you buster!" It's not as bad as that. It just means "when Hell freezes over."
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A developer will mention it to his manager, who'll answer "no" and then they've "taken it under advisement"
Perhaps they even have it documented somewhere so that if you sue them they'll be able to say "we considered it, but after much thought voted against it."
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Fortunately they made me redundant before I had the opportunity to go over there and do a "I don't Like Mondays".
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Having been to the USA umpteen times that does not surprise me at all.
Most of the population there is hardly aware that there is something like a world outside of the USA. What do you expect when even their own president hardly knows any other country than Mexico, Russia and China. One of them being more or less OK, the other two ones obvious enemies.
When Belgium is part of Brussels they obviously should be able to speak murrican, not the other three dumb official languages in this corner of the world.
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fd9750 wrote: Having been to the USA umpteen times that does not surprise me at all.
Most of the population there is hardly aware that there is something like a world outside of the USA. Examples?
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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My cousin was in a US family for 4 months last year. They explained her some things like she came of middle age or something similar.
"This is a wash machine... do you have this in germany?"
Luckily enough, they realized the "error" pretty fast and then it was better.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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Nelek wrote: "This is a wash machine... do you have this in germany?" I don't know Germany but I do know Mexico and that type of question is perfectly reasonable when dealing with Mexico.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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On the other hand...
When I was high school age, I spent a year in a US family. Part of the experience was giving presentations in various groups about how it was to be a seventeen year old back home in Norway. At that time, Norway had a single TV channel, a fact completely out of the mental reach of the kids.
So what did we do, evenings and nighs?
We went on trips, walking or biking. Maybe fishing.
Maybe to the movies, but that was only in the weekends.
So what did you do otherwise?
We visited each other and sat down discussing. Talking.
Talk??? Did you talk, every night???
That is what I remember in particular "Did you talk, every night?"
It made no sense to them, even for upper-teenage kids to spend time talking, disussing. The value of whetting your ideas and thoughts against an opposition, coming to terms with your own thougts, seemed to be a more or less completely unknown value to them. They didn't understand why I valued it highly.
There were physical elements quite different from what I was used to: I was familiar with washing machines, so they caused no problem, but I was shocked to learn that wintertime, the sofa and chairs was pulled back from the outer walls, away from the frost. If there were insulation in the walls at all, it certainly was only a fraction of what I was used to. We clinged to the huge central oil furnace, staying away from outer walls and windows. (This was in Minnesota; blizzards were certainly not uncommon!)
My shock over missing insulation (and several similar things) I did not proclaim loudly, but filed in my archive: That's how they do it here - rather than insulating, they keep a really huge oil furnace and pull all the furniture away from the outer walls at winter time. Crazy, in my eyes, but if that's how they want it... Actually, it is not too far away from the washing machine: Your Norwegian host family takes you on a two week mountain trip, with no washing machine in the tent. Up in the mountains, what to you prefer: Go on in your dirty clothes, or wash them in a bucket at the cabin?
That is what student exchange programs are for: Telling how large the cultural differences may be, even between supeficially quite similar societies. I was shocked how primitive building constructions were in the US Midwest; American kids coming to a higly developed country as Norway may be shocked by how primitive we are when we go out in nature. Dont' be shocked by anything, either way! Just observe that "OK, so that's the way it is done here". Or from the other side: "Oh, so you do not know how to handle this. I'll show you!"
I was also shocked by some of the opinions I heard, regarding racial minorities, members of other churches or beliefs, statements about politicians, or whatever. I had to ask myselv: Are these really cultivated people, the way I consider myself to be?
A generation ago, when I was in the US as an exchange student, you might easily get the impression that the main purpose of e.g. AFS (American Field Service) was to bring non-US students to the US of A for a year to teach them how great American culture is, for the exchange students to bring that message home. I didn't go with AFS, but with YfU, Youth for Understanding, which were early at sending students the other way as well: US kids spent a year in a non-US culture (maybe not even a Western one!). Today, two-way exchange is far more common in all the exchange organizations. Yet the fraction of US youth learning to know a non-US approach to the world is so small that it unfortunately has epsilon impact.
I strongly promote that today, the primary responsibility of the student exchange organizaions, like AFS and YfU, should be to bring US students out, rather than bringing foreign students in to the US of A
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Member 7989122 wrote: I strongly promote that today, the primary responsibility of the student exchange organizaions, like AFS and YfU, should be to bring US students out, rather than bringing foreign students in to the US of A Exchange should be from every place to every other place. It doesn't matter if US or not.
I used myself the "erasmus" program to go to germany. What started with 2 semesters out ended in 15 years and counting...
The first year we were a group of erasmus of aprox 110 students from over 40 countries around the world, from the USA, mexico, through Europe, to Middle east until Taiwan...
After that I have traveled a lot in many different continents due to work. My most visited country out of Europe was India.
I strongly promote to get out of the confort zone and see the world. It is beautiful, you learn a lot of different things, it opens your mind and it makes you to be thankful of what you have when you go back home.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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I went to Japan for a couple of years while in my early 20s. When people ask me what the most surprising thing was when I got there, I always answer, "I was most surprised to see that everything, except for the language on the signs, looked just like it did in the U.S." I later learned that the washing machine was different. No more or less advanced, just different, and more appropriate for the way the homes/apartments are layed out. It took me a while to figure it out, but I got it. I kind of miss it.
As far as the misconceptions, I blame the public schools here. Most of the textbooks are horribly out of date, and the newer ones are more politically driven rather than fact driven. There are a handful of good teachers, but most of them are incompetent, and each generation is a little less competent than the last (being a product of the previous). I even had a High School English teacher that could not understand when I, as a student, kept pointing out that there was a problem with that weeks vocabulary list.
Vocab: tort (noun) - to twist
Me: "Excuse me, Teacher, but isn't 'to twist' the definition of a verb?"
Teacher: "What?"
Me: You listed it as a noun, but your definition is for a verb.
Teacher: "What do you mean? If you have a problem with it, go look it up in the library."
Me: looks up 'tort'
Dictionary: "Tort (n): any harm done, whether intentional or accidental, causing injury or loss to another which can be tried in a court of law, including but not limited to negligence, intentional . . ." [it went on for about 3 long paragraphs]
Me: [thinking] "Hmm. I wonder if she is confusing this with the word root 'tort' that means to twist. That isn't a word by itself though. The noun is the only actual word 'tort'. I don't think teacher or the other students will understand this. Let me simplify it"
Me: "Ok Teacher. I'm back. Tort is a noun. It means 'Any harm done.'"
Teacher: "Fine. I'll change the vocab list."
Vocab: tort (noun) - to harm by twisting
Me: blows up into a tirade on how much of an incompetent boob teacher is ... with multiple examples ... in front of the full class ... until teacher bursts into tears and runs from the room.
No Teacher: Never came back. We had a "substitute" teacher for the rest of the semester. Amazingly enough, I never got in trouble for it. I was never even asked about it by school admins.
Money makes the world go round ... but documentation moves the money.
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