Speaking as a Swedish software developer, I don't know any local professional in the field who would even consider writing identifiers and comments in anything other than English. Documentation is a different issue where the choice depends upon the target audience: if it has a chance of being international, it's always in English.

I think the reason can be summed up in four points:
culture - IT is done in English, that's just how it is.
literature - Who would translate The Pragmatic Programmer to Swedish?
communication - It's the lingua franca of software engineering in international settings.
harmonization - All APIs are in English, so having Swedish identifiers would just look stupid and not read very well.

Talk about selective memory. Did you miss the global financial crisis? Everybody elses economy is in the crapper too. Including China.

Time Nazis would make an excellent Doctor Who episode..

There are non-underage children? I guess technically everyone is someones child, but..

Funny, I was watching the same speech, and I thought he went out of his way to stress that this goes beyond the campaign. I guess I'm just retarded.

Regarding his concrete plans, he's a *politician*. None of the candidates have provided much in the way of concrete plans, much to my frustration. There is no doubt that Obama can fail to live up expectations -- hell, I don't see how he *can* -- but that goes for any new president, and America wouldn't have a separate presidential election if it was all about the issues as opposed to the person.

This will certainly be interesting.

I think I'm actually proud of you, America. Not just for electing Obama over McCain; but for producing *two* sensible candidates and then choosing the one who makes history. I'm glad I stayed up to watch it live.

I agree (Swede here) - I don't think Obama is the bloody Messiah, and I agree more with McCain on some issues, but damn.. I was up until 7am just to see this unfold, and seeing both McCains gracious concession speech and Obamas acceptance speech was rather emotional.

Now I'm very tired.

And then the question becomes: what else was in that bill?