Agony of an African programmer

Re:Agony of an African programmer by w1ntermute on Sunday April 06, 2014 @05:49PM (#7543192)

Yeah, it's not really accurate for the PIGS , and even in northern Europe, it's not as high as in the States.

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Re:Agony of an African programmer by bdcravens on Sunday April 06, 2014 @06:03PM (#7543262)

I had to look the term up, but my first guess was correct ("Portugal, Italy, Greece, Spain")

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIGS_(economics)

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Re:Agony of an African programmer by mbesto on Sunday April 06, 2014 @08:07PM (#7543863)

FYI - Another one I learned while being in Europe is FIGS, which sort of represents the "more economically developed" Euro languages - French, Italian, German, Spanish. This pretty much covers every nation you would need to speak to in order to do legitimate business in Europe. (Scandinavia generally will do business with English speakers)

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Re:Agony of an African programmer by w1ntermute on Sunday April 06, 2014 @08:35PM (#7543964)

The Germans are pretty solid English speakers too. More so than the French, Italians, or Spaniards, anyway.

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Re:Agony of an African programmer by pjmlp on Monday April 07, 2014 @05:03AM (#7545360)

I live in Germany, good luck trying to speak English outside the big cities or people with lower levels of education.

Thankfully it doesn't matter to me as I speak the language fluently.

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Re:Agony of an African programmer by V-2 on Monday April 07, 2014 @05:51AM (#7545542)

I was about to flag him for being offensive to Italians ;)

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Re:Agony of an African programmer by forrestthewoods on Sunday April 06, 2014 @05:59PM (#7543247)

Possibly a dumb question, what does PIGS mean?

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Re:Agony of an African programmer by sthatipamala on Sunday April 06, 2014 @06:03PM (#7543266)

Maybe "Portugal, Italy, Greece, Spain"?

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Re:Agony of an African programmer by atmosx on Sunday April 06, 2014 @06:56PM (#7543564)

Actually it's PIIGS you add Ireland to the mix and you're right.

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Re:Agony of an African programmer by aditiyaa1 on Sunday April 06, 2014 @08:28PM (#7543944)

Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain

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