I remember when I was a young engineer. I got promoted through the ranks quickly, and at some point faced the same quagmire as you. What I ended up doing was to take a program of marketing management. Two months, Friday all day and Sat mornings for a month and a half to get a taste of the discipline (I was exposed to economy and accounting at the University, 12 weeks each, and lots of reading on economy, administration, etc). After that brief and non compromising stint, I realized that there were more nuances to marketing than what could be anticipated, and that the whole "Business" field was VERY interesting to me. Therefore, I went and did a full time MBA.

If you are gonna learn on your own (which I do not recommend), try to read the classics, Kotler on marketing management, rice & trout for positioning, etc. No Wikipedia or "Business for dummies" for you.

If you are going to take (a) short course(s) on the subject, go to reputable schools (I did the Short stint at IESA, not high in the world rankings, but best in my country, and did my MBA at IE in Madrid), while there are no hard and fast guarantees, going to reputable institutions will raise the possibility of being exposed to great teachers. Try to go for classroom courses, is harder, but you will build your "networking thingie" much better.

There is no guarantee that doing an MBA will improve your situation. But it would be hell to sign up for an MBA and discovering that you HATE "Business", and ALSO it would also be a grave mistake to decide "What you want to do" without at least a glance of what this "Business" thing is all about.

only fittingly, the first content you should watch on netflix after setting this up is a marathon of rube goldberg cartoons.

So it seems I can send a telegram inside venezuela, and to belgium at least, but not to indi come next month. Ok, I'll keep that in mind....

From the post operator in Venezuela:
http://www.ipostel.gob.ve/servicios.html

Telegrama: Es un escrito destinado a ser transmitido por telegrafía para su entrega al destinatario, con cobertura nacional e internacional.

Modalidades del Telegrama:

Telegrama Ordinario: Son los telegramas cuya aceptación es obligatoria y no lleva ninguna indicación de servicio.

Telegrama Urgente: Son telegramas a los cuales se les da prioridad para su transmisión y entrega al destinatario.

PC (Acuse de Recibo): Confirmación de entrega (Opcional según la necesidad del cliente).

Giros Telegráficos: A través de nuestros Centros de Atención al Cliente autorizados, a escala nacional, usted puede ordenar un pago a favor de personas naturales y/o jurídicas, la cual será cancelada en su totalidad en la oficina de destino, poniendo a disposición de nuestros clientes, nuestra extensa red de oficinas a nivel nacional.

Telefonograma: Al comunicarse con nuestra línea gratuita de Atención al Cliente 0800 IPOSTEL o 405-3078, usted puede enviar un mensaje telegráfico o telegrama a través de una llamada telefónica. El cobro de este servicio será cargado a su factura CANTV.

In the Diamond Age, the "premier" teaches logic, programming and nanotechnology in a similar fashion.

While it is good to see the concept taken to practice.....

Nothing new to see here, move along. ;-)

They can not do the plastination.... A while ago chavez expeled the "Bodies revealed" expo from venezuela, and denounced it as inmoral.

Embalming him using that procedure would be an about face that his supporters could not aford...

They have been doing it for ages.

I has exposed to their style as a case stud durng my MBA. I do not have the files handy, but you can research them on the ionternet.

I leave you this link to get you all started:

http://www.co-intelligence.org/S-Semco.html

Anything that is 16:10 aspect ratio, but most important: PIVOT TYPE. that way, If you want to see large swats of code, you put it in portrait mode. If you want to see code side by side, landscape.

Since the monitor is pivoting, you will need IPS, TN will not do.

Resolution and diagonal up to your taste and budget.

From anecdotal experience, Korean screens are OK. Nonetheless, a recomendation (for koreans or brand names alike) is to buy second hand from your favourite (ebay, craiglist), that way, someone else did the quality control for you (dead pixels, infant mortality, etc), just be clear on the conditions before the transaction is done. Of course, caveat emptor.

Would have killed you to provide a link to the Wikipedia article where you Copy&Pasted that pearl of wisdom?

Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language#Significance

Or, if you wanted to pass that pearl of wisdom as your own creation, was it so difficult to remove the reference numbers in brackets? [22].

My god, talk about self absorption.

Nope, the Spanish say Octeto. We, the Latin Americans say Byte.

Since I did not live in any Western European countries other than Spain, Switzerland and France, I'll not go out on a limb about anything except this:

I am guessing that the quality of the education system in Germany (where you probably had GOOD classes of English as a foreign Language while in High School), couple with the proximity of the two languages (one of my dearest English teachers said that English is a highly simplified/primitive German), makes you guys comfortable with the language.

First my advice:
1.) Leave everything in the code ready for localization.
2.) If you have competent people to do the localization do as many as you can. DO NOT, i repeat DO NOT use Google translate or similar tools to do your localization.
3.) If you can not do a good localization, deffer the work to volunteers.

Now, the reality. I am a Spanish speaker, fluent in English as a second language (For What Is Worth, long time ago, my ToEFL score was 293/300, but I am quite rusty now). I was a manager in telecoms for a long time, now a Teacher (Comp Networks II, mainly Layer 3 Stuff) for Comp Scy and Telecom Engineers in a Jesuit University here.

But my level of English is an exception around here, not the rule. Our university demands an English sufficiency test in order to graduate. And yet, most of the students are incapable of reading in English. Something as simple as reading a paper (for example: "OSI Systems and Network Management" Lakshmi Raman, ADC Telecommunications IEEE Communications Magazine, March 1998) my students will not do in English. They will rather OCR it, then use Google Translate, and will not even refer to the original article when the machine translation gets "wonky".

The fact that the documentation is written in English is of little concern, anything that is remotely interesting will have translations, or books written by native speakers within weeks/months.

*** As some other poster wrote: Non native English speaking programmers will treat the foreign syntax like a black box (in some cases, having to program in English as opposed to Spanish actually helps, in Spanish "Yes" and "If" both map to "Si", and you have to infer which is which from context :-S ). So, an effort to localize is well worth it.

*** And as some other posters wrote: Localize ALSO to show respect to the culture of the other person(s). And remember that part of that respect is to localize correctly, not taking shortcuts like using Google Translate to translate your strings.