Poll: How would you rate your computing skills? Autor vlákna: ProZ.com Staff
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As I said two days ago (another Quick Poll) my computing skills are my weakness: they are probably between average and below average…
P.S. I thought my computing skills were rather poor, but thanks to Kay I discovered they are not… Thanks Kay for enlightening me!
[Edited at 2024-06-20 16:37 GMT]
| | | | | | Philip Lees 
Řecko
Local time: 08:48
řečtina -> angličtina
Somewhere between good and excellent. I've worked as a programmer, mainly database design and user interfaces, and I write my own code for fancy text parsing, web applications and the like. However, I'm not any kind of super hacker. So I put myself in the upper 30% band.
A regards the commercial software we translators use in our daily grind, well, it's a hell of a lot easier than it was forty years ago.
I'm assuming the person who asked this intended to refer to "compu... See more Somewhere between good and excellent. I've worked as a programmer, mainly database design and user interfaces, and I write my own code for fancy text parsing, web applications and the like. However, I'm not any kind of super hacker. So I put myself in the upper 30% band.
A regards the commercial software we translators use in our daily grind, well, it's a hell of a lot easier than it was forty years ago.
I'm assuming the person who asked this intended to refer to "computer skills", rather than the ability to compute, as the question states - although I am rather good at mental arithmetic, too. ▲ Collapse
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I haven't needed help with anything for over 20 years.
| | | | Daryo
Local time: 06:48
srbština -> angličtina
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| Fairly good? | Jun 20, 2024 |
Long time ago, in some prehistoric era of computing, when a text processor that would let you "insert text here" was the then state of the art and MS-DOS was yet to be created, even before ARPANET, I made my own Serbian Cyrillic and French screen and printer fonts. For a monochrome monitor and a dot matrix printer.
| | | | IrinaN (X)
Spojené státy americké
Local time: 00:48
angličtina -> ruština
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| Computing or computer skills? | Jun 20, 2024 |
Another great question.
Why ask translators if they can compute?
Please check the easily available descriptions and definitions of both and clarify the question.
| | | | Kay Denney
Francie
Local time: 07:48
francouzština -> angličtina
I actually googled what was meant by "computing skills and was told "The ability to use a computer, navigate the internet, and use common software applications such as Microsoft Office. Managing and organizing emails, using email etiquette, and using email to communicate effectively with colleagues, clients, and customers."
If it's limited to that, I would say I have excellent computing skills. I can even produce a table in Word. *
(*If you think that's not much ... See more I actually googled what was meant by "computing skills and was told "The ability to use a computer, navigate the internet, and use common software applications such as Microsoft Office. Managing and organizing emails, using email etiquette, and using email to communicate effectively with colleagues, clients, and customers."
If it's limited to that, I would say I have excellent computing skills. I can even produce a table in Word. *
(*If you think that's not much to write home about, tell that to all the clients who put text into Excel because they want their text segmented but don't know how to create a table in Word, which means I have to work with a text that's very shoddily written because Excel isn't designed to deal with words and has no spellcheck. I kind of feel they deserve a shoddy translation back. But, sigh, my reputation!)
writeaway wrote:
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Yet, here you are! ▲ Collapse
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