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Very much wishes for you for that. Although you might get luckier in doing so, if you continue to share your links (to that beta website) to your friends, colleagues and other buddies who love to use Stack Overflow and are looking forward for a German version of that website. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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The problem "Lost in translation" is a killer issue. English => German
German-speaking programming community => deutschsprachige Programmierergesellschaft
Do you really want that "Denglish" a la "Windoz Händie"? 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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The problem I see with a localized version is that you're limiting the amount of people (developers) who can possibly help you out when you've got a question. Questions in German can only be answered in German. Therefore, while not a bad idea, I don't really see the benefit in it. English is the universal language across developers from all over the world and personally I expect from everyone who can learn and master a programming language to have decent skills in the English language to be able to communicate with each other without too much trouble. Most of the technical documentation (SDKs, Whitepapers, Specifications, etc.) is only available in English anyways. You can reach many more developers in English than in German.
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I agree with you.
I strongly believe that you guys (German) are awesome people with good knowledge.
If you have a problem, why not ask it to the world?
If you are to share your knowledge, why not share it to the world, rather than only sharing it for German community?
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There's a Hindi version of Codeproject too, it's most frequented during Cricket season. 
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This Exchange[^] perfectly illustrates both why we need Stackoverflow in German, and why it's probably a very bad idea.
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Grammar Nazis are everywhere 
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Fibre To The Cabinet
Which means that the only copper between me and the Telephone exchange goes up a pole, across a road and into my house.
Which means...I can have high speed broadband. Estimated 32~48 Mbps instead of my 5.5Mbps over copper. And that's way, way better than my neighbours who are struggling with a teenage son and a <1Mbps connection 
That one was painful for emails!
So...Feb 9th an engineer should be here to fit it (because it needs a new face plate for the master socket, and they don't trust me to do that - which means I will have to remove the faceplate I fitted and put the BT original one back for him to replace, I guess...
Yes! Oh Yes! I'm a waiting... 
[edit]Typo: "Copy" for "Copper"[/edit]
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modified 25-Jan-15 7:43am.
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The only problem is that with that kind of speed, the Internet will soon run out of pictures of sheep.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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But not Cats!
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Ah, so it's a problem if you like sheep, but not if you like pussies.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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With 5.5 you took over CP, with 7 times that you can aim for the world...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Out of curiosity: How much such line costs in the UK?
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Varies depending on who you get it from, but my previous copper based package was £8.50 + £16.70 per month (the £16.70 is a line rental for the exchange services, and physical infrastructure such as cabling, engineers, etc - you can't avoid this) - that's "unlimited usage" rather than "XX Gb per month".
My new fibre based package adds £10 per month for the first 12 months, then that rises to £15 per month, for a speed "up to 78Mbps", But the actual result depends on the length and condition of the copper cabling from the box to your master socket (and whatever you have in the house)
I could have gone for the slower package which is an extra £5 per month for the first 12 months, then £10 per month after that, with a speed "up to 38Mbps" depending on cable length and condition.
That price includes all telephone services, including caller ID, anonymous call reject, free calls to landlines on the same provider, and free landline calls to anyone evening and weekends.
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I have TWC for phone, internet and cable TV (The DVR/Menus are crap compared to the Sky box). I pay around $108 per month but get 300Mbps cable (the max they presently offer).
We can't get fiber in the building but who cares with speeds like that! The best speeds I can find here for fiber are around 50Mbps (FIOS).
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If I could get cable, I would. 
But they don't like the idea of providing cable in Wales: it costs them too much compared to the money they can get in a more densely populated region.
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OriginalGriff wrote: If I could get cable, I would.
Great for internet but the TV is poor. Was thinking of ditching the TV part and getting Hulu/Netflix but I wouldn't really save any money.
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I was going to mention that. The price at that speed is unheard of in most of Norway. I pay around 28£/month for 230 KB/s, and that's pretty normal, and I cant get more.
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0.23 Mbps?
I didn't realize that Norway was a third world country... 
That's terrible! How can your businesses get anything done?
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Ehm, 0.23 Mega Bytes per second, not 0.23 Mega bit per second. Its still bad, but not a disaster.
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Phew! 
So around 2 ~ 2.5 Mbps? That's not bad - borderline for streaming movies, but it's not too bad for surfing at all.
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Yes, its multiplied by 8 isn't it? Surfing in general is fine, but for watching movies its a bit low. I have to turn down the quality a bit to make them watchable.
I think its the geography of Norway that's the problem, that and the fact that 20% of the population demands to live in places that are unassailable by fiber due to the price.
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8-ish...it's packet data, so there are overheads to add to the message data bit count, plus the ACK / NAK stuff - I generally work on bytes = bps / 10 as a rule of thumb.
It was easier in the old days with framing sent with each byte! 
(But a damn sight slower)
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Ah yes, I keep forgetting that data is transmitted in packages, and does not claim a line like the phone does. More flexible, but a little slower for each person. 
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BTW: that may change: the cost of materials for fibre is typically 1~5% of that of copper - so if the world copper price continues to rise, they may start laying fibre in order to reclaim the copper and sell it! It's currently around US$5000 per ton, and it doesn't take much cable to run up that much...and of course, they can charge you for the upgrade as well.
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