Good reminder that professional translators aren't gone... on the contrary. There's so many things in languages that you can't handle with a machine.
Mistakes happen, but shrugging them off with blaming people or pushing them to be more careful is counter-productive. Instead, you want to find the organizational issues which made them possible in the first place.
A good piece so that the origin of the term doesn't get lost.
Nice piece. In an age where we're drowning in bad quality content, those who make something with care will shine. They need to be supported.
It's funny how old games can still have a cult following. It's unlikely to stop too... That's the good thing about limited lock in. Self hostable private servers, ability to play offline, tools to produce mods... They all contribute to such very long term successes.
This is a good rant, I liked it. Lots of very good points in there of course. Again: the area where it's useful is very narrow. I also nails down the consequences of a profession going full in with those tools.
You have to know which battles to pick. If you don't... This article shows well what will happen. And it'll indeed turn into a curse.
When hype meets group think, you can quickly create broken culture in your organization... We're seeing more examples lately.
Still a masterpiece if you ask me. I love that movie.
Ever realized raccoons had something to do with the history of computing? And children illustrations? Work of art if you ask me... we have to get back to the time of the computer magazines.
Very nice praise to an underrated and underpaid job. Can we have more librarians please?
Are we sure the Moomins are really a cute tale? I always felt them slightly off, but indeed it goes much darker than I suspected.
Hear, hear! It sucks up all the air in conversation and obliterate imagination. As if we couldn't do better.
Sure, a filter which turns pictures into something with the Ghibli style looks cute. But make no mistake, it has utter political motives. They need a distraction from their problems and it's yet another way to breach a boundary. Unfortunately I expect people will comply and use the feature with enthusiasm...
We should definitely put the 10x engineer myth to rest. Let's focus on setting up the right organisation and culture instead.
Once again the music labels can't understand the cultural value of building archives. Let's hope they loose the lawsuit.
Sure it makes generating content faster... but it's indeed so bland and uniform.
Interesting piece, we indeed need to move beyond from the "for hackers by hackers" mindset. I don't even think it was really the whole extent of the political goals when the Free Software movement started. Somehow we got stuck there though.
Looks like I'm a digital packrat of some sort! There are reasons behind it and it's well explained.
Of course I agree with this piece. You need enough culture in your field to know about a breadth of topics. It will definitely help pick up the next one you don't know about yet or help you build parallels for the tougher problems you encounter.