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Lost in translation: Upleveling Sprout Social’s localization system

Sprout Social

For years, the Sprout engineering team got by with a custom localization solution, since open source solutions were still maturing. In this article, I will outline our new localization system, how it tackles the most complicated localization scenarios, and how we incrementally introduced those changes across the web engineering organization.

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Appalling: US Patent US8515941 B1: System for Generating Search Engine Spam

Bill Hartzer

US Patent US8515941 B1 granted Aug 20, 2013, is titled “System for unique automated website generation, hosting, and search engine optimization” And their websites still rank well in Google despite Google Panda 4.0. So blatant that they have been awarded a patent for creating web (search engine) spam.

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Building A Career in Electrical Engineering

The Realtime Report

Building A Career in Electrical Engineering. If you’re among the people looking for your dream career, you might consider becoming an electrical engineer. Knowing how to become an electrical engineer is the first step you need to take. Keep reading to learn more about the steps to becoming an electrical engineer.

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Women in engineering: How I found and started my career as a software engineer

Sprout Social

I made it through with top grades and decided that from then on, I wanted to make sure women in engineering would not have the same experience as me. I started to get more involved in outreach programs and activities that allowed me to connect with other women in engineering. Finding Sprout Social. Starting a Business Resource Group.

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Automated System Can Rewrite Outdated Sentences In Wikipedia

The Realtime Report

Automated System Can Rewrite Outdated Sentences In Wikipedia. A system created by MIT researchers could be used to automatically update factual inconsistencies in Wikipedia articles, reducing time and effort spent by human editors who now do the task manually. There are so many updates constantly needed to Wikipedia articles. “The

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How We’ve Changed Our Engineering Mindset to Become Builders Again

Buffer Social

I've been working at Buffer since 2014, and even before I joined, I was always impressed by the Buffer team's product and engineering culture: how quick they shipped improvements and how close everyone was to the users (not uncommon to see engineers responding to comments on Twitter!).

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Conductor Searchlight Search Engine Optimization System Launched

Bill Hartzer

Conductor, a SEO ( Search Engine Optimization ) technology company, has launched Conductor Searchlight , a full-featured search engine optimization (SEO) operating system. Related posts: Search Engine Optimization Horror Story Contest Launched Do we really need another Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Tweet This!