Friday, June 15

[soid]

 I worked from home. Finally, finished my email receipts project, finally. Well, it’s still on Ryan for CR.

Localized all new interfaces in 6 languages. How did I do it? I typed in Google Translate something like:

In the application on the left tab click the “Send receipt” button

So to give it more context around the short phrase I was translating. And then looked at what it told me in the quotes in Italian, or Chinese, or whatever, and copy that, and crosscheck with deepl.com. 15 or 20 UI elements had to be translated this way. I showed B what I did in Chinese and surprisingly it was all good. I assumed it was alright for other languages as well.

Then Will asked me to research SMS pumping and figure out what to do. Sunny says we should just block everything except the US. He’s probably right, but I was still trying to find a way to keep international numbers. It makes tourist’s life so much easier. On the other hand, it’s just a suburban train – not that many tourists ride anyway. So I googled, ran some queries, computed some numbers, and made a proposal on what to do – I feel like an analyst at times. I like it. I have to think, have to write, have to use data in my thinking and come up with creative decisions. I sent the report and called it a day.

It got too hot, we realized with B in the evening, and we installed AC.

Comments

[juan_gandhi]

You were lucky with the Chinese. But how do you know you were lucky with other languages? Google is a shitty translator. (Ok, even their human contractors are at times shitty translators, by my experience. They hire cheap.)

[soid]

Chinese tends to be the worst quality translation, actually. Plus, they are some extra checks after I pass the task, so I hope they catch it, if any. Also, we have a bug report button in the app, which people do use.