The term "native check" is used in the biz to refer to what is essentially having a native speaker of English (NSE) rewrite an English translation done by a native speaker of Japanese (NSJ).
I hate it.
It's not that it pays less than translating. I've found that it pays about the same, as long as you […]
Hearing a disturbance, The master programmer went into the novice's cubicle.
"Curse these personal computers!" cried the novice in anger, "To make them do anything I must use three or even four editing programs. Sometimes I get so confused that I erase entire files. This is truly intolerable!"
The master programmer stared at the novice. "And what […]
The Japanese-to-English (J-E) translation industry in Japan is in kind of an odd situation: I would estimate that at least 90% of the J-E translators in Japan are native speakers of Japanese (NSJs). This is odd because in most of the rest of the industrialized world — Europe and North America in particular — it's […]
These days, I use Python much more than C++ for development, but I've still got a lot of C++ code to maintain. Over the years, the code has gotten crufty in places — mainly GUI and COM automation code, because it's hard to unit test, and thus hard to refactor.
That is, until I read Working […]
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