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From Google Translate:

> The basic questions - those that once plagued every programmer - have not yet been made. You can write a question or definitive answer that will help tens of thousands of programmers in the future. (Oh, and do not worry if your question is already on the site in English.'ll Build you a website just for developers who speak Portuguese no longer need to use English to learn new things!)

Why not just provide machine translated versions of the original English questions with option to improve the translation?

I think that creating a brand new site will just split the large SO community and won't achieve much. Especially since you drastically limit the audience willing/able to answer the question.

> the compiler should not complain that the expression is of type u8 and not u16 - it is safe to widen the type!

I'm actually glad it does because it often means there's an error. An explicit type cast is the way to go IMO.

The downside of this (unless I'm missing something) is that these variables need to be evaluated on the client side and inevitably slow down CSS processing (at least for the first time that is). I really like the fact that you can preprocess both LESS and Sass (and others) to just plain CSS and hide all of the dynamic behavior (far more then just variables).