I want to see the snippet!!
While thats not good, you can almost definitely find a screen repair store in your local mall or something. It'd be like $70 to fix instead of the $800 to buy a new one.
GasBandit
Staff member
Since I still have it in my email (new message notification) can I share it with them as a private message @bhamv3 ? I won't unless you give said permission.
GasBandit
Staff member
Wow. Facebook is shit. Terrible UI, unintuitive as hell, black-box options with vague descriptions, redundant features, just all around annoying. And I've only got 19 of you lot as friends. I can't imagine how people with "hundreds" of friends sift through what must be deafening amounts of noise.
I mean, say I want to see things my friends POST on my newsfeed, but not what they LIKE. There's no way to accomplish that. I can only specify that I want to see "less" of a certain person, but that's not what I want. Also, can anyone explain the functional difference between a "like" and a "share," since they both have the same practical outcome of showing up on all your friends' newsfeed. Why even have both options? Supposedly there's some workaround using lists, but I created a custom list and it doesn't give me any control over what shows up in it - and not everything shows up in it by default, apparently.
It's garbage. It even makes Google+ look good by comparison, and that's frickin SAD.
I mean, say I want to see things my friends POST on my newsfeed, but not what they LIKE. There's no way to accomplish that. I can only specify that I want to see "less" of a certain person, but that's not what I want. Also, can anyone explain the functional difference between a "like" and a "share," since they both have the same practical outcome of showing up on all your friends' newsfeed. Why even have both options? Supposedly there's some workaround using lists, but I created a custom list and it doesn't give me any control over what shows up in it - and not everything shows up in it by default, apparently.
It's garbage. It even makes Google+ look good by comparison, and that's frickin SAD.
GasBandit
Staff member
Yeah, I'm an asshair's breadth from just nuking the thing from orbit and going back to blissful ignorance.
My husband being out of town also means I can't sit at the library for hours to make my son do his work without having to listen to my daughter bitch about being bored. So yay, my son is biting himself, slamming his head on the kitchen table, and doing math problems intentionally wrong all over again. FFS.
We did have an hour at the library, but my son got nothing done because he "got distracted" while hiding his iPad from view and looking busy.
*sigh*
We did have an hour at the library, but my son got nothing done because he "got distracted" while hiding his iPad from view and looking busy.
*sigh*
Just a reminder that Facebook's primary loyalty is to Facebook, and not its customers.
--Patrick
Our translator's glorious output, mildly encrypted with rot13:
Gur cerivbhf vaqhfgel vf na vaqhfgevrf bs bar cebqhpg, naq gur shgher vaqhfgel vf na vaqhfgel jvgu znal nccyvpngvbaf oybffbzrq yvxr zrephel fcvyyrq nyy bire gur sybbe, naq vf irel qvirefvsvrq, va juvpu gurer jvyy or n ybg bs vaabingvba.
wow....that's worse than my old boss and his double google translate.
... did she have a stroke writing that?
Dave
Staff member
You're not too far off. It's a Samsung Galaxy s3.They probably don't make replacement parts for his phone any more.
And your translator is DEFENDING this shit? Christ on a pogo stick... Brother, you have my deepest sympathies.
I'm guessing she has some family connections and thinks those are enough to get by.
The previous translation is a translations of one work order, and the future translation is a translation with many machine learnings blossomed like google spilled all over the floor, and is very stroke-like, in which there will be a lot of questions about your suitability as a translator.
As far as we know she doesn't have any family connections with us, she's just horribly bad at English and fantastically ignorant about her level of badness. We're supposed to have filtered out people like this during the selection process, but sometimes a few will slip through. Though this is the first time someone's defended their incomprehensible output with such vehemence. Usually they're smart enough to realize they're not good enough.
Also, I swear I am not making this up, this translator's Chinese name, when translated into English, literally means "translates with refinement".
This lady just doesn't know when to quit. She emailed us again, a very lengthy email in fact, basically saying "YOU DIDN'T SPECIFY YOUR REQUIREMENTS BEFORE GIVING ME THE CASE, THAT'S YOUR RESPONSIBILITY, YOU NEED TO SPECIFY WHAT STYLE OF TRANSLATION YOU WANT, IT'S COMPLETELY UNREASONABLE YOU'RE NOW BLAMING ME, THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!!!"
We're all like, "Grammatically correct English is a special requirement we need to specify in advance now?"
My supervisor is going to send her a before-and-after comparison of the translation, which shows the changes I made after I edited (or, rather, retranslated) her output. Hopefully this'll shut her up.
(And if anyone's wondering why we're being so patient with her right now, it's due to us preferring to keep a low profile due to some drama that's happened to our company recently)
We're all like, "Grammatically correct English is a special requirement we need to specify in advance now?"
My supervisor is going to send her a before-and-after comparison of the translation, which shows the changes I made after I edited (or, rather, retranslated) her output. Hopefully this'll shut her up.
(And if anyone's wondering why we're being so patient with her right now, it's due to us preferring to keep a low profile due to some drama that's happened to our company recently)