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raincoletoday at 1:42 PM2 repliesview on HN

The writing style has a name called ragebaiting. The gold:

> Localization files for every language on Earth

Yeah because English is the only one language that matters. Let's fuck up all the non-native speakers to save, I don't know, 50kb of text files? How could one frame this as a bad thing?

> Help documentation with 40+ screenshots in 10 languages

Seriously how Anglocentric could this author be? Even physical products have multi-language manuals nowadays.


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josephcsibletoday at 3:14 PM

Isn't the normal convention to ship all the language files in the installer, but for it to only install the ones that are actually used on the system?

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GandalfHNtoday at 5:13 PM

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