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  1. Feb 2023
  2. Dec 2022
    1. The translator will automatically receive an additional 60 minutes to the translation time, and we can then contact the client to see if they approve the extra time or not, and add the time accordingly.

      why not reversing the order

    1. “My theory was that [the readers] just thought they cared about... the action; that really, although they didn’t know it, they cared very little about the action. The things that they really cared about, and that I cared about, were the creation of emotion through dialogue and description; the things they remembered, that haunted them, were not for example that a man got killed, but that in the moment of death he was trying to pick a paper clip up off the polished surface of a desk, and it kept slipping away from him, so that there was a look of strain of his face and his mouth was half opened in a kind of tormented grin, and the last thing in the world he thought about was death. He didn’t even hear death knock at the door. That damn paper clip kept slipping away from his fingers and he just wouldn’t push it to the edge of the desk and catch it as it fell.”

      emotion replaces contents

    2. But it’s easy to think otherwise, because “life is still quite shitty in Zaatari refugee camp” or “refugees in Zaatari still missing their homes” aren't exactly news (the camp has been there since 2012), and journalists need to find new angles to talk about it. To avoid this kind of pitfalls you need to always remain critical, even with the sources you trust.

      pitfalls originate from the purpose of telling a story

    3. when you are documenting for a project, that is exactly what you want to avoid. You don’t want your own ideas thrown back at you, you want to learn new things, find new point of views. In order to avoid what's called the confirmation bias, try using a search engine which doesn't doesn't track you instead.

      dilemma!

  3. Nov 2022
    1. Over-exposition

      "What we mean by exposition is information that is necessary for the reader to understand what's going on in the story. There are two ways to deliver this information: through narrative or through dialogue.” How to Write Dazzling Dialogue: The Fastest Way to Improve Any Manuscript

  4. Aug 2022
    1. We implement changes into the game before burning the next ROM for the next weeks round of regression and testing.

      ROM then will be integrated into emulators like RetroArch?

  5. May 2022
    1. Our true competition is not the small trickle of non-Tesla electric cars being produced, but rather the enormous flood of gasoline cars pouring out of the world’s factories every day.

      horizontally instead of vertically

    2. receiving a patent really just meant that you bought a lottery ticket to a lawsuit, I avoided them whenever possible.

      whether there is more to it than a lottery ticket