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Dear Steam: Geographical embargoes are stupid
At a time when piracy is putting a dent in video-game sales, Steam appears to be quite successful. Their success is due to two main factors: It's easier to buy a game on Steam than to pirate one Steam...
View ArticleSome numbers
A freelance translator's income can be calculated by the following formula: r * p * h * d * w where: r = rate p = pages per hour h = hour worked per day d = days worked per week w = weeks worked per...
View ArticleSetting contentEditable in a wxPython IEHtmlWindow
wxPython's iewin.IEHtmlWindow lets you host the Internet Explorer browser control in a wxPython window. Doing so is quite simple: import wx from wx.lib import iewin class MyFrame(wx.Frame): def...
View ArticleLong-term outlook for translation industry
I recently read two books with rather gloomy outlooks for our future civilization: The Ecotechnic Future and The Long Descent. Both books predict that when the petroleum runs out, human civilization...
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The Dunning–Kruger effect and you
According to Wikipedia, The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which unskilled people make poor decisions and reach erroneous conclusions, but their incompetence denies them the metacognitive...
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Going to work for the (short, Italian) Man
Last week, I took a job as a technical translator at Nintendo of America. I'll be moving to Redmond, Washington at the end of February, and my family will move out there permanently in June. While...
View ArticleVersion 2.1 of Count Anything released
I just released version 2.1 of my free word-counting program, Count Anything. Click here to get the latest version. This is a minor release with two fixes: the "No" button of the check for updates...
View ArticleLife in America
Note: although I am now a Nintendo employee, my postings should not in any way be interpreted as being on behalf of or condoned by Nintendo. They are my personal views only. And now that that's out of...
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The importance of appearing confident
I've been neglecting this blog for some time, but thanks to a nice reminder from a reader, I'm back. As translators, we need to be humble about our work. Translation spans so many fields, from...
View ArticleContinuous integration in python using watchdog
watchdog is a cross-platform python module for watching directories for changes. I use watchdog to run continuous integration on my projects: every time a file changes (e.g. is saved, deleted, or...
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