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I saw this one a while ago but still check it when I’m doing something that seems trivial but probably has many edge-cases.

  • honeyontoast@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I have one to add:

    Programmers believe languages have a flag.

    I used to work on a system that supported multiple languages and had to fight very hard not to put a country’s flag next to each language on the front end. People’s responses to the “wrong” flag being used for their language ranged from slightly annoyed to extremely volatile…