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The hard bits
Charles Nevile
Chaals / Чаалз
Consultant, CTO office
Yandex
MLW Rome 2013
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Yandex:
~4000 Russian Speakers And me. (И тоже Джагз) Built on language tools Search leader in Russia + Maps, Money, Mail, Music,…
Yandex MLW Rome 2013 2 Yandex: ~4000 Russian Speakers And me. ( - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Yandex MLW Rome 2013 2 Yandex: ~4000 Russian Speakers And me. ( - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
1 The hard bits Charles Nevile Chaals / Consultant, CTO office Yandex MLW Rome 2013 2 Yandex: ~4000 Russian Speakers And me. ( ) Built on language tools Search leader in Russia + Maps, Money, Mail,
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Search
Originally monolingual Now multiple languages Localised results And personalised… A lot of learning to do
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Russian
3 genders "Singular", 2-4, lots Case: use кто:chaals not кого:katya Big culture => autarky
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*.Yandex.{com,ru,…}
Some localised APIs …localised services Moving between them? (Single Sign On…)
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BEM...
(Block-Element--Modifier) Page component library Open source Big in Russia Adapt for each page
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Using BEM
User settings lang: Flags + ISO codes Where is it in the UI? Is the service localised? Remember my preferences…
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Translation
Rules vs statistics Time to build Choices available "Internal biases" Feedback loops
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Choosing standards
Like toothbrushes Trend: XML -> JSON Build vs buying tools Joined W3C, ... Наши разработчики говорят…
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Спасибо
chaals@yandex-team.ru
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