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It's horrible. I've had to work with French exceptions for a Dutch client once (I'm Dutch too) because for some reason their network admin didn't know how to change the language 
And in the Netherlands a lot of people install their OS in English too, but a lot have the Dutch install too (I've had both, switched to English when I started programming). So now I had Exception, for the same customer, in Dutch, English and French 
Even worse for Crystal Reports (as if CR isn't bad enough they also localize error messages)... There's even websites that translate error messages for you.
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Couldn't agree more. In my opinion (and I did express that every time I could to Microsoft) they should reduce localizing efforts anyway. Of course it makes sense to localize the help. But it does not make sense to localize certain expressions. Renaming stuff where the terminology is basically English does not make sense. People learning the localized (e.g. German) versions will be confused once they want to master the subject, people who have already mastered the subject will feel lost by using a localized system.
The worst thing I've ever experienced is Microsoft Excel. Who (really, who?!) had the brilliant (sarcasm!) idea to localize the function names?
Microsoft - we are not in the 80s any more. People know words like "Settings" or even applications like "Firefox".
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Yes, Excel is another favorite! I remember that we had an issue with a French customer when we tried to select the appropriate Excel-sheet. The sheet names are also translated 
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Cornell University researchers presented “You Can Run, You Can Hide: The Epidemiology and Statistical Mechanics of Zombies” and created a zombie susceptibility map, Zombie-town USA, which simulates a zombie infestation based on how diseases spread in real life. "Survival rule #1: Cardio."
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Reading a job description can send even the most talented technologist off the proverbial deep end. 'Must have 20 years experience with Go in a production environment'
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20 years experience in one job and no promotion - what a fool like me are the searching 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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I'm coming up on 10 years at my current employer. Still working for the same project I was hired for (~2/3rds of my total time here); and haven't been threatened with prodemotion to management yet. 10 more years of the same sounds quite appealing actually.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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America is suffering from a lack of tech-savvy workers, and that's one of the reasons that wages are stagnant. It's enough of an issue that President Obama is launching TechHire, a program designed to get citizens into well-paid jobs in the technology sector. "Get a haircut and get a real job"
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Apple's high-end 18-karat gold Apple Watch Edition will be a luxury priced item and the most expensive it has ever offered, starting at $10,000 and available in extremely limited quantities, the company revealed on Monday. Also: demand
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Also: demand
Good thing... or the price might get really high.  
Contrary to popular belief, nobody owes you anything.
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Medical research is plagued by small sample sizes and inconsistent data collection. So Apple is stepping up to help health innovation with Research Kit, a new iOS app that lets people volunteer to join medical research studies. iColonoscopy
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It's open source; so it is good news.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Medical research is plagued by small sample sizes
That is absolutely false... marketing at it best/worst I suppose.
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Cisco estimates a million unfilled security jobs worldwide. They all seem to be working on the side of the business with profits
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In Germany the companies all are crying for specialists aka "Fachkräfte". Interesting is what our "Fachkräfte" are discussing in chats on such messages like in the most admired heise news.
Too make it a short business case: "Who pays peanut, will get monkeys"
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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I estimate that 50% of that guess is nonsense.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Mine, or theirs?
Mine came complete with a 15s research cycle 
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Mine, or theirs?
Theirs. It's like a bank claiming that there'll be more demand for financial literate people. As long as a company does not have to waste (!) money on something that does not increase sales, it won't. Yes, it'll be an important topic in the meetings, but it will not materialize during your scrum.
Kent Sharkey wrote: Mine came complete with a 15s research cycle
..often gives a nice impression of what kind of article to expect 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Shortage of security pros worsens
This simply isn't true.
I mean, I am short, but I haven't gotten any shorter.
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Randy Newman - Short People[^] 
#SupportHeForShe If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Heed the wisdom of your programming elders, or suffer the consequences of fundamentally flawed code. Just use two bytes for that year field. This isn't going to be in production that long.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Just use two bytes for that year field. This isn't going to be in production that long.
Nyuk! Nyuk! That's funny stuff, right there.
I guess because it's true. Who would use software for 100 years?
Most software I don't want to use for 100 seconds.
Where's the update!?!
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That implies the customer needs a new release. It will be expensive 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Just use two bytes for that year field. This isn't going to be in production that long.
If your software's still running after 65,536 years...
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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