Ep. 2 - Maryam Aly on Building a Global User Base: Translation, Localization, and I18n
Feb 19, 2018•35 min
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Episode description
In my first interview, I speak to Google engineer Maryam Aly who worked on Foursquare's Internationalization Stack for several years. This includes making sure that the foursquare city guide and swarm apps work all around the world. Sometimes, a simple translation isn't enough - we had to deal with the quirks of each language, and puns and cultural references that don't carry through.
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