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by davidw 6215 days ago
Well, maybe not in the way he means, but for whatever reason, if I get really deep into a program, I find it a little bit more difficult to speak Italian, which normally comes very naturally. I absolutely hate writing comments and commit messages and the like in Italian, even where I'm sure the code will never be touched by anyone who doesn't speak it. It's like it involves some sort of context switch that kicks some stuff out of cache and degrades performance...