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fredrikholmtoday at 7:14 AM1 replyview on HN

This is a recent degradation; they've been writing blog entries for years.

As a non native English speaker I can also attest to this trade being extremely demanding of English fluency:

> public static void DoTheThing(Configuration config)

Isn't something you can not understand and still function as a software engineer. Yes, some schools and universities teach in other languages, but the entire ecosystem from code to documentation to articles is nearly almost always in English.


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deanctoday at 7:17 AM

It doesn't matter. I work with people who aren't native speakers (in a country where English-education is a very high standard) but are mostly fluent in day to day conversation and meetings and they are not comfortable writing long-form texts - and it shows. Your expectations are unrealistic.

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