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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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]