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Re:Uber Freezes Hiring of U.S. Tech Staff as It Seeks to Cut... by marcinzm on Saturday August 10, 2019 @08:34AM (#20661701)
>What would go wrong if Uber India only handled one timezone and didn't really support French?

People travel.

That aside, you'd have 100+ different deployments that need to be independently updated, debugged, managed, etc. That takes people and effort and is still going to cause issues. For example, each country speaking French might have a different deployment so updating language files needs to take into account every single version running live.

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Re:Uber Freezes Hiring of U.S. Tech Staff as It Seeks to Cut... by thaumasiotes on Saturday August 10, 2019 @06:13PM (#20664781)
> People travel.

So? People traveling to India are still going to be in India's timezone, and French covers virtually no one that English doesn't also cover.

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