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40 essential online apps for freelancers and startups

by Matthew Stibbe on March 22, 2010

Online applications give me a competitive edge. I want to be a ‘big little company’ with the same (or better) IT capabilities as the biggest of my clients. I try to make the maximum use of online applications because they let me deploy new capabilities quickly without adding to my IT or admin burdens. This [...]

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When writing, optimise the algorithm not the code

by Matthew Stibbe on February 15, 2010

Back when I used to be a programmer, I quickly learned that you could get a much bigger performance boost by changing the algorithm – the underlying structure of the code and data – than by optimising the code.
For example, you could rewrite an inner loop in assembler rather than C and get [...]

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Found in translation

by Matthew Stibbe on November 27, 2009

In this second guest post, Lingo24’s founder Christian Arno talks about the joy of words and the hidden linguistic pitfalls that translators must avoid.
Linguistic diversity
As all translators will know, it takes a considerable amount of time and effort to learn a second language. But with genetically-related languages such as Romance, there is often a [...]

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