To compute is human. Luis von Ahn is using people to perform computation. Using is a bit harsh, because they do it for free and they keep coming for more. It’s almost an hour long, and worth watching all the way to the end.But to err is to localize. Eric Sink, on the relative futility of locallization: “The world should be punishing me for my arrogant “American-English-is-the-only-language-that-matters” behavior, but it’s not. Our foreign revenues are solid. We’ve experimented with localization and received abysmal results.”
Read the comments for a bit more insight. My experience mirrors that as well: localized versions are harder to come by and often buggier; it’s easier to teach yourself English than to work with these tools.
Pixelated organized. Imagine having a wall like this in your office.
Timing is everything. Development time translated into chronological time.
Just in time for the holiday shopping season. How to win a parking spot.
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