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Comment on Version 0.2 of mailer module released by Pablo

Pablo — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:42:23 +0000

I’ve used the version 0.5 with Python 2.6. For send messages to, by example, Gmail, you need a line like this “server.starttls()” before the login command.
The module is great!

p/d: sorry for my english ..

Comment on Five practices of agencies that “get it” by bugbread

bugbread — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:00:12 +0000

I’ve had an agency offer to pay me more as well. Each agency pays very different amounts, with the highest payers paying 1.5 times the lowest. One new agency asked me my going rate. I gave them my average (higher than the lowest, lower than the highest). I guess they generally paid more, because right off the bat, they said “Ok, we’ll pay you that for the first month or two, and then if you’re working out, we’ll raise it”. That in itself surprised me, but with the vague “month or two”, I thought “Well, we’ll see”. Sure enough, a month and a week later, I get an email saying “you’re doing good work, so we’re going to go ahead and raise the rate”.

I’ve worked in a free market economy before, and you know what? Every year or so, there would be an evaluation, and the employer would give people raises. They did this even if no-one asked for raises. This isn’t a 1950’s sitcom, where “asking the boss for a raise” is an opportunity for hilarity. In today’s free market, companies know that they need to pay competitive rates in order to avoid losing employees, so that’s what they do. The relationship between agency and translator doesn’t perfectly map to “employer – employee”, but in many many ways its very close.

Now, would I toss an agency aside because they didn’t volunteer me a raise? Of course not. But that’s not what Ryan’s saying. He’s just saying that, like any other company, an agency that gives performance based raises in order to avoid losing someone to better paying agencies is a company that “gets it”.

Comment on Great resource for translating software docs into English by bugbread

bugbread — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:47:10 +0000

Thank you! Excellent! (One of the things I’ve been pondering upgrading to Windows 7 about is precisely that: You can switch OS languages in Windows 7, so as long as what you’re translating relates to Windows 7 (which will become more and more common), you can switch OS languages and check what the English terminology is for a given Japanese OS selection. But that means nothing for all the Vista, XP, and Win2K stuff that appears in documents.

Comment on Is a smarter Google worse for translators? by bugbread

bugbread — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:43:53 +0000

Oh, god, yes. Google has been driving me crazy lately, for exactly that reason. Even the “put things in quotation marks” function has been acting quirky lately.

Comment on Talk on translation at Japanese high school by Alena Mcdonell

Alena Mcdonell — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:42:13 +0000

Huge stuff&great site.

Comment on Experts Needed by Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:12:38 +0000

If you did get your bliss from cars though, Ryan, it would be one hellavu ride that machine, no doubt.

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Comment on Experts Needed by tex

tex — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:09:15 +0000

Absolutely, nice post!

Comment on Experts Needed by Adam

Adam — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:00:38 +0000

Hear, hear!

Comment on Experts Needed by David

David — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:33:43 +0000

Here, here!!