There are other countries than the US of A.

SwiftKeys was a popular alternative , looks like it was purchased by MS and is still alive. Prediction based on learning+dictionaries and swipe-typing/gestures were the top features

Prepare your butthole for the Danish spoken number system, where they express integers in fractions

• Don’t code in a language/style that requires you to write code that makes prefixing necessary - divide and conquer instead
• Readable code and well written unit/BDD tests is much better than separate documentation that will go out of sync the minute another Dev does some surgical incision into the code
• Be verbose if you need to in order to convey the relevant semantics, the characters are virtually free
• Use the casing that is mainstream/recommended by its’ developers for the language at hand

In 1991 we paid around $60 for the best Nintendo NES video games (we had 22% VAT at the time in my country). That’s roughly $127 adjusted for inflation.