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With respect, Google Reader was used by a tiny fraction of the internet population, despite being operated by the biggest online brand for 8 years. The majority of people opted to get their news from sites and services which used some combination of human and computer powered filtering.

I agree the Google Reader model is fantastic for information junkies (in a good way :) with relatively advanced technical skills; but empirically, it didn't work for the mass market Twitter is going after.

So I don't see Edgerank as a band-aid fix, but a fundamental requirement for a large-scale system like this. Because (a) on the demand side, recommendations are what people actually want - let computers do what they're good at and reduce the human tedium of sifting through inane FourSquare checkins etc; (b) on the supply side, relevant native ads inside a recommendations stream are the business model.

For these reasons, I disagree with OP when he says "Twitter should not abandon its unfiltered feed". I know it will cause shock, shock, when they do it, but they will do it because it's so fundamental to their objectives as a mainstream consumer service.
Somewhere in San Francisco, Jake Rodkin is huddled, weeping under a bed.
If you're wondering why - I have this hunch that in the last year I've seen more beards in the tech world and I'd like to see if this is true.
"physical fabrication and programming" Robots?
Cool - Created a simple app and pushed the app to Firefox on Android
Just curious, what would have happened if you hadn't battled her to go to sleep?
you are dead wrong.

a chinese tablet nowadays works better than a samsung one. the trick to buy anything chinese is to avoid the copy cats. do not buy anything that looks like a traditional brand knock off. buy something that has its own brand and your good.

also, my work provided newly released tab3 runs slower then my years old hacked hp touchpad btw. way slower!
Nimrod seems rather unfortunately named. I'm not up on Abrahamic mythos so I didn't get the biblical reference -- to me Nimrod seems like a fighting words insult.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nimrod
That thought crossed my mind previously but I didn't know if it had occurred to anyone else.

I mean it's not horribly priced here in the US. For a couple it's around 9$ each ticket, but if you want 3D or anything special it's 12-13$. A lot of that seems overpriced to me, and the one complaint I have is: you purchase a 5$ drink and they don't allow fountain drink refills.
There is a widget called as randomcat... took some time to figure it out.
I think you need to add a button. Same thing in level 4 with fireworks.
Yes Firefox mobile. Tools -> Apps lists all apps
So you wrote this: "however then I thought I could make more money doing things like project management and spent the next ten years pushing paper."

What do you want, to make a lot of money or to write code?

Then you wrote: "I can't leverage the last 10 years of my career; it would basically become a lost decade for me."

What have you lost (other than time?) are you concerned again that its the money that you're not going to make?

The point I'm trying to get to here is that you are at a pretty critical point in your life. You've got a solid 20 years of 'job' ahead of you, and you're about to turn 40. You are looking back at your previous 10 years as a "lost decade" which suggests you've made some internal value judgement that those years were wasted? (or only wasted with respect to getting a programming job now?)

Here is the thing, you made that choice 10 years ago because you wanted more money. It does not seem like it worked out for you. Consider using a different algorithm for making the next choice. Maybe spend time figuring out what you want to do, leaving money out of the picture for now, and see what answer pops out?

Is it programming? You can test that while in your current 'day job' by doing it in the evenings and on weekends. There are projects from operating systems to data bases to web infrastructure out there, pretty much any programming 'task' can be done in the open source world.

Now after doing that for six months, are you racing home to work on your project? Or are you sad because its your "second job, the one without pay" that you do after you leave your main job? That is a good litmus test for what the next 10 years might feel like.

Of course if you have steady work, and you want to change, I suggest you try a number of things until you find the one that you want to do even if they don't pay you.

The "1%" are called that because they aren't most of us. Most of us spend our lives living and working and then eventually dying. We cannot escape death, but we can choose how we live. You're going to spend a lot of time doing what ever it is you choose to do for "work", and so when you look back at that if it was "good times" you will be happy, if it was "a treadmill" you will be sad. Choice is up to you.
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I stopped following the president because his feed would crowd everything else out. Same with CNN or the NYT. I just don't want them to crowd out the Bret Victors on my feed.
People would email Steve Jobs all the time. This isn't a new thing.

Before the Internet CEOs would get letters.
On the same page in terms of checking emails frequently, but not necessarily responding immediately so that I can formulate a more complete response / address it fully when I have the time. That being said, what are your thoughts when someone takes a little too long to respond? Do you actively notice when people take longer than anticipated?
Interesting. What I'd like is a chrome packaged app to Firefox app porting guide.

That'd seal the deal for me.
"From October 1 [2013], an adult caught smoking cannabis in Switzerland can escape formal legal proceedings by simply paying a fine."

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss_news/Mixed_feelings_over_n...
As a Norwegian, I.. agree, but still hope you'll do it.

For the greater good of humanity (and Norwegians), Switzerland will make a useful laboratory. It might even work. Sorry, but that's how it is.
Why not just try to get a higher income earning job?
Your rant is quite misguided. In this case, the CEO explicitly asked for people to email him:

"I discovered that Legere put an emphasis on customer service -- listening to calls and even sharing his email address."

From the other article: "had customer complaint emails forwarded to him. He also gave out his email address, ..., for anyone to contact him."
Exactly. Also, California is the highest-taxed state in the republic, so adjust that pre-tax salary of $100K downward a bit more in real terms.

Consumer goods like cars and laptops and TVs will cost the same, to a first approximation, anywhere in the continental U.S. But in some coastal areas, you have real estate costs that are 20x that of cheaper areas with salaries/compensation packages that are generally not 20x higher. In central Pennsylvania towns the median household income, for instance, tends to be around $26K and the median house cost is $64K, meaning houses are 2.5X median income.

In Palo Alto, on the other hand, the median house cost is around $2.25M, and the median family income is around $160K, meaning houses are 13.75X median income. Part of this are older PA families who bought when land was cheap many decades ago and are grandfathered in with lower tax rates, but part of this is also people who are stretching their finances dangerously to be able to afford there. (Even though those $2.25M median homes are often smaller than the national average, measured by square footage.)

It's possible to make $100K in the SF bay area and be, in real terms, poorer than someone making half that in central Pennsylvania.
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You can't just use the proposed Swiss basic income for your calculations for another country. Switzerland has a higher cost of living than most countries.
Since nobody can seem to figure it out -- As near as I can tell, this is a not-quite-fully working app-maker demo, that 'publishes' to static HTML and Javascript files hosted on Amazon S3.

The gamified GUI is a little bit confusing, and you end up with a resulting 'app' (that sometimes takes a few reloads to work, oddly) with an Install button that doesn't seem to do anything yet -- but which I suspect will be a link to save 'as an app' icon to your mobile phone's homescreens.

It's not fully baked, at the moment, and it appears that some of the widgets aren't loading, but it's definitely a neat proof of concept, that was either leaked early, or is for some reason swamped under load, or something.
One phenomenon which Facebook takes into account which Twitter does not is that of the loquacious acquaintance, possibly someone with a business constantly hyping things, possibly someone who just likes to hear themselves speak more often than I do. They apply slight pressure to me to follow them on Twitter or friend them on Facebook so I do so.

On Facebook I can easily set people to three settings which are private to me - read everything they write, read only significant things they write (things which get more than ordinary likes/replies, or whatever), or ignore them. This is great for me, otherwise my entire Facebook feed would be filled with my 4-5 chattiest friends or current/former coworkers, I'd have to scroll through their collective 10-12 posts a day to see anyone elses, etc.

Twitter does not have this option where I publicly follow someone, due to them pressuring me to follow them on Twitter, but where I can actually privately ignore them. Which just tends to mean I use Twitter less. Maybe there is an option buried somewhere where I can do this, but it's definitely not obvious like on Facebook. Which just means I use Twitter a lot less. Because all it is for me is a constant stream of 4-5 chatty acquaintances with the dozens of others I follow popping in once in a while.

There are ways to deal with this on Twitter, but none of them are that good. I can create another account, but then there are problems from that - accounts with private tweets I no longer have access to or have to ask for two adds from everyone etc. I can create a private list without these people on it, but then I have to go to the trouble of maintaining two lists - the main list and the private list. Facebook just makes this a lot easier.
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one should definitely do what they are told to at all times! Stepping outside the boundaries even a little bit is very very bad and will result in the destruction of civilization!

For what are we, but rule following machines?
That way the browser can download and cache 5 possible images rather than 100 and the user just has to think in terms of 0-100.
They typically spell it "ant".
The title seemed negative to me (I thought he complained and the CEO said "we're done with you!").

But really, the T-Mobile CEO was helping -- the author wanted out of his contract (well, out of the $200 fee).

(EDIT: The original title was "I emailed the CEO of T-Mobile and he killed my contract, no joke")
"I've always wondered how people who follow thousands of people are able to get much value from their timelines."

Simple: TweetDeck. I can see it now on my 2nd screen, with 32 columns allowing me to, yes, effectively follow thousands of accounts and topics using lists and filters.

Acquiring and growing TweetDeck is really the best thing Twitter's done, from a purely selfish experience, as it's become a fantastic research/communication tool.

It's obviously low priority for them, evidenced by shutting down the mobile clients, but it seems they are smart enough to keep it running to keep a percentage of power users active in the network.
Also of related interest is this article from 2009 that says:

A "small" at Regal has 670 calories and 34 grams of saturated fat. That’s about as many calories as a Pizza Hut Personal Pan Pepperoni Pizza—except the popcorn has three times the saturated fat. Even shared with another person, that size provides nearly an entire day’s worth of the kind of fat that clogs arteries and promotes heart disease. And every tablespoon of "buttery" oil topping adds another 130 calories. Asking for topping is like asking for oil on French fries or potato chips, according to CSPI.

http://www.cspinet.org/new/200911182.html
It's funny how people immediately mock someone's sense of entitlement. You know what? Sometimes you indeed are entitled to something and the only reason you don't is because everyone else just accepts the sewer everyone is in.

I once received an apology letter after helping my mom bringing her complaint to the governing board of deutsche Bank. Because god forbid she was right and that douchebag bank worker wasn't.

Indeed just wow. I wish people would complain more, when there is a need.

What do I mean with when there is a need? That's the thing. Were not supposed to be machine(even though a lot of people wish for the opposite). Were supposed to evaluate the choices given to us and act accordingly.

And for all of you running a small business and thinking of the douchebag client you don't want. I apologize, because I know exactly who you're talking about and you're right.
Some of its adventures:

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http://www.mailinatorguy.com/mailinatorguy/2-spam-attack-2/
When you realize the world consists of people, and you realize the customer is just a person, just like the CEO is a person, then this doesn't seem so strange. I don't like the world where a CEO is somehow better than the average person, completely insulated from customers, from real people.
It was just a fun toy app that I whipped up. Didn't mean to offend anyone with my "hot tech". :-)
I think the word "widgets" may be confusing to a lot of people. It could mean a lot of different things. I would actually spell it out and include "videos, audio, images, and more..."
A friend of mine touring through Norway decided to get a pizza and a 6 pack of beer. Ended up costing him ~$65.
Also can install it on Firefox Desktop
We are using feature detection for audio/mpeg playback. Soundcloud only streams as mpeg.

Firefox only supports audio/mpeg when a third-party decoder is available.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTML/Supported_medi...
You missed the part where the CEO announced that he wanted to focus on customer service and put his e-mail address for anyone with problems to personally contact him?
this is nonsense that is holding the industry.

there are already copies with better quality than netflix available to everyone to download. and netflix is still in business.

i still have to download those better copies in less than 2 hours when i want to watch something not on netflix or hulu. and i now hate it. i used to love when there were no convenient way to pay for it.

so, quit the nonsense as it even goes against factual evidence
Do something that you are passionate about or find fun to do and that you would probably do even if you don't get paid for. If its not fun, it will feel like work and you will come to resent it.

e.g If you are passionate about motor bikes, create a blog about motor bikes. As you grow your audience you can profit by either ads or affiliate sales.

If you list down your passions here, maybe the community can help you come up with an idea on what to do.
It's a good thing that John Legere places customer care/service as a high priority, but it seems like you didn't take the time to figure out the problem yourself.

Instead of "getting frustrated" and taking the issue to the CEO, you could have spent some time and effort to resolve it yourself.

Also, this post doesn't provide enough information about your issue and why you had a misunderstanding. If it did, then it would be more meaningful.
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someone had posted an article about this awhile back, but (let's just say it could be implemented easily, I know it's unrealistic), having an email protocol system with different levels of priority, so that emails that are time-sensitive have higher priorities than marketing emails? I'm not talking about filtering emails into labels like google does with it's inbox/social/promotions, but actual priority levels that you'd add similar to an email's subject line. And if filtering is a more realistic option, what about establishing some sort of standard for adding priority to the end of an email (ex. ::::Important:12hours::::) that a filter would then pick up. And abuse of the system would result in your future email's priority not being respected as seriously by whatever sorting algorithm.
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I've been following this whole business card raytracer story and wonder if people might be missing the forest for the trees.

It would be a little nutty to suggest that Golang 1.1 is going to give optimized C code a run for its money. Nobody could seriously be suggesting that.

What is surprising is that the naive expression of an "interesting" compute-bound program in both languages are as close as they are.

Most C/C++ code --- the overwhelming majority, in fact --- is not especially performance sensitive. It often happens to have performance and memory footprint demands that exceed the capabilities of naive Python, but that fit squarely into the capabilities of naive C.

The expectation of many C programmers, myself included, is that there'd still be marked difference between Go and C for this kind of code. But it appears that there may not be.

This doesn't suggest that I'd want to try to fit Golang into a kernel module and write a driver with it, but it does further suggest that maybe I'd be a little silly to write my next "must be faster than Python" program in C.
I made a bit of money selling old computers on Ebay, not exactly programming but being aware of things. I did it mostly to support my habit of collecting them, letting the extra stuff go. A lot of people make their living providing support for off-warranty gear. By ferreting out sources I was clearing 2 - 3K / month for a while during the great Y2K scare.

You could consider writing (fiction or non-fiction). It can be relaxing and fun and if you work at it you may find that selling the occasional ebook on Amazon makes you a buck or two. (Of course you might end up programming a CMS that generates books based on a simplified version of markdown and then start selling that and make a mint, but I digress :-)

Not sure what you're finances are like by if you can buy a rental property you will find tenants provide an endless supply of puzzles to solve (not all fun, ok most not fun) but it can be extra income.

A friend of mine makes funny bumper stickers and t-shirts (more of a design job I guess). The guy two streets over used to have an ice cream truck he drove around on weekends and at events.

Taking pictures of store fronts and selling them to the business owners to attach to their Yelp page? Taking pictures of couples at famous landmarks and selling them a copy of their picture? Juggling at famous landmarks for tips?

Making cold calls for candidates during an election year? Working at Macy's during the holiday rush?
Same thing here. Even tried other stuff like the image gallery.
Luckily, these days I don't have to work with Maven. :) - But that means I don't have any current Maven code I can distill out as examples. However, I think the blog post does a good job of laying out these problems, particularly the way that incremental compilation sucks in Maven. One example used to be some major issues we had with jasper reports. We had xml files that weren't really jars, that needed to be in a particular directory within the parent war, and had different XML files to use for different clients. So it wasn't as simple as one input, one output. Some files were shared for certain clients, some were client specific. Sometimes we depended on two different files -- one client might have one report1.xml, another client would have a different report1.xml.

This is actually pretty simple with Ant, but becomes a nightmare trying to fit into a Maven structure.
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Don't want to ruin the surprise for everyone else. 'Sides it's just data processing. It's not hard to figure it out - it's quite logical.

Oh... my edit was I forgot the language. I did it in Ruby.
Trying first reduces the burden on the person you eventually ask. If you made a good effort, you will go into the conversation knowing a lot more and having a contextual awareness (in detail) that you otherwise would not have.

The person you ask can focus on the parts that you didn't figure out for yourself. And, you may have gained a different perspective and/or insight into deficiencies or additional options that is actually of interest to the person you talk to (write, IM, etc.).

Viola. You just turned a lecture into a more interesting and engaging conversation.
I've been developing apps and have been using only TestFlight to distribute apps to testers. I don't think there's any other way other than TestFlight. :/
Sadly, as it seems to be the comment I leave most these days, it doesn't work on mobile browsers. At least mobile Safari.

I understand that there are some interfaces that aren't meant for mobile. There are some that aren't meant for desktop. But at a minimum, you have to make some small effort to give a message to those visiting from unsupported platforms. It shows that you care.

If it doesn't seem like you care about the experience I'm having with your product then I have no motivation to go back and try it again.
> Personally, I’m hoping for Rust.

That was my thought while reading article; Rust seems like the answer here. I'm coming from the opposite direction than the OP: I'm unwilling to give up the expressiveness of Ruby and friends in order to write micro-optimized C++ code, and I'm hoping Rust will give me the best of both worlds.
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My point was that the relative value of goods could change. Even if someone in Ireland cannot buy as much rice as someone in India maybe they could buy more potatoes, because potatoes are easier to grow in Ireland while rice is easier to grow in India. If we want to use food as a metric, we would probably want to use some abstract measure of nutrition (maybe $/calorie).
Sometimes you just need to deal with someone who is not only outside of the original situation but has the power to do something about it. The complete corporate directory isn't available for people to sift through to find someone to help us. We just know about customer service...and the CEO (more or less). For example, back when the white plastic MacBooks came out, my wife got one -- it was riddled with problems, including case cracking and loads of other problems (don't remember them anymore). Long story short, months of getting no where with regular Apple support (going through repairs, weeks w/o her laptop), she emailed Steve Jobs. She got a brand new laptop as a replacement. It's unfortunate to have to contact a CEO to deal with a seemingly low-level problem but as customers paying thousands of dollars (on a MacBook, or over the course of a cell phone contract), when we have a problem that we can't get rectified through low-level employees and their supervisors, what are we supposed to do?
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This could have been a serious comment, trolling or sarcasm. I prefer to view it as the latter.
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I'm not sure that civil-service headcount will give you a good indication of how much of the government is operational.

At NASA, IIRC only ~ 20% of the funds go to civil servant salaries. The rest goes out the door in contracts, grants, etc. I don't know the fractions for other agencies.
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Reporter: For $200, I will write a nice article about you.

CEO: Deal