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It's inspirational, congrats! Is the Apple/Braun comparison often made? I had no idea. And it's quite striking. I had certainly thought, begrudgingly, that Apple were the sole insp…

My £0.02: having worked in a few teams in the UK, France and Sweden over the course of the last decade, I'd say this is a cultural effect that can be won over locally by a certain …

More likely than that, for the average user, is the fact that every contribution to a free, search engine indexed content site is 'unpaid work' and your content becomes the product…

I get it, and dig it. Aggregating moods would be useful on a site such as Amazon, where, depending on the technical level of the product, reviews range from sharp and intelligent t…

Just coming back to this thread because I grabbed my Grit Scale score (4/5) and watched the TED talk, which turned out to be one of the first to hold my interest in a long while - …

I'm in a similar boat to toumhi and the OP: semi-technical (basic PHP + CMS + outsourcing) with slight feature-creep and sales-sweats issues. Besides that, I'm a WooThemes customer…

Congrats - it looks like a great app. I like your approach to repetition, the design looks engaging and the fixed scope of the app makes it seem more accessible (learn 230 words fo…

Heads up: a few days back I sent you a before/after doc which may have been filtered out by your inbox. I can resend elsewhere if you want - I used the address at the bottom of the…

Agreed. According to my secret source (wiki-p) UK has 8x more people per mile than the US. Germany has 7x more. Total population of these two countries combined: 143,799,308. Get t…

French/Swedish translator here. . I learned by living in the other countries. Semi-immersion in your home country is possible (movies, books, tutor, conversation exchange) but hard…

Agreed. While there is some good, open tech out there (OmegaT, MemoQ - for open formats, at least), there seems to be lots of room for improvement. Email should be in your mailbox …

Definitely not avoiding them in my freelance work - they help to keep me on schedule. The 'no deadlines' line at the end refers to the translation community/tools startup I launche…

Freelance translator here. 4 years working at home in a few countries for companies around Europe. . Perhaps it is largely personality based, but I've always enjoyed it. Deadlines …

Agreed. The copy does not excite a need to do anything, even stay on the site.