Show HN: Time Cop – A simple, private, open-source time tracking app

Re:Show HN: Time Cop – A simple, private, open-source time t... by eftokay83 on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @10:20AM (#22748722)

Just wanted to let you know that Google Translate is really funny sometimes.

The /de/ page translates "fork away" with "weggabeln" which is really not what you meant (although it is really really funny).

A better translation would be "erstellen Sie Ihren eigenen Fork".

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Re:Show HN: Time Cop – A simple, private, open-source time t... by hamaluik on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @10:26AM (#22748836)

Thanks, I'll fix that right away!

Knowing some French I know that the translations can be a bit.. special sometimes. For this app all I can hope for is than in most cases the poor translations are better than no translations.

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Re:Show HN: Time Cop – A simple, private, open-source time t... by _1tan on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @10:38AM (#22749012)

Have you checked out https://www.deepl.com/en/translator already?

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Re:Show HN: Time Cop – A simple, private, open-source time t... by hamaluik on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @10:46AM (#22749101)

I haven't heard of it before, but I'll certainly check it out right now, thanks!

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Re:Show HN: Time Cop – A simple, private, open-source time t... by coffee_am on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @06:05PM (#22754001)

DeepL translation

"fork away" -> "Weggabelung" ... not much better :\

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Re:Show HN: Time Cop – A simple, private, open-source time t... by wingerlang on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @10:27AM (#22748850)

Yea I would not even bother with automatic translations.

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Re:Show HN: Time Cop – A simple, private, open-source time t... by hamaluik on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @03:35PM (#22752731)

Translating the app was more an exercise in figuring out the technical and marketing details for translating an app. Hopefully the translations are entirely unusable at least.

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Re:Show HN: Time Cop – A simple, private, open-source time t... by ValueNull on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @07:09PM (#22754506)

I’d hope they weren’t entirely unusable?

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Re:Show HN: Time Cop – A simple, private, open-source time t... by hamaluik on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @07:34PM (#22754677)

Yup, what you said. Don’t listen to me.

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