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Mark_Wallace wrote: I can't really see a locally-installed app being able to deliver "pages that will be of interest to Markie" (or perhaps "Marcie", in your case), so maybe it would have to be down to some on-line giant to deliver pages-that-might-be-of-interest.
It can built without much difficulties (see my article on "query intelligence ..., etc.") for us if you want such a meta level filtering (+ keywords). It's just whether or not this is a justifiable effort (it does take a few days away at least and they do add up), given so much other "more important" things to handle now.
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No special software, but a list of sites that I browse over morning coffee and again in the middle of the day. For analysis, I read the Economist every week. (Not perfect, but useful).
/ravi
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If you would like to improve it, ban contentless sites. Or aggregators. My time isn't wasted reading sites or purusing search links. My time is wasted with click bait and blog posts that summarize, summaries of blog posts taking 5 clicks to get to the real author.
Sadly, even CP is guilty of this. Sometimes the news in the news isn't the link but a link to some aggregator that does the link. And, AFAIK, CP has a full-time employee doing this! (Admittedly, it doesn't happen often so don't think I am calling out CP)
Do you want great news filtered just for you ... pay someone. A web site would probably charge a few hundred a month for the privilege or you could just hire an intern at $10/hr to constantly give you good links : )
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Feedly is perpetually open on all my screens (about 200 feeds), and updated whenever I need a hit.
When I'm scanning for news items, I tend to open all the 'usual suspects' in their own tabs. They get updated a couple of times a day, depending on how much of a panic I'm in for news items. I don't use them in Feedly as they tend to be way to noisy.
By noon, I have Hacker News, Reddit/Programming and Reddit/Technology open and updating every 15 minutes (again, depending on what a panic I'm in).
Dark ages? Maybe. I prefer to think of it as more like the industrial revolution: there are some labour savers, but on the whole it's a dirty, smelly business.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: When I'm scanning for news items, I tend to open all the 'usual suspects' in their own tabs. They get updated a couple of times a day, depending on how much of a panic I'm in for news items. I don't use them in Feedly as they tend to be way to noisy.
Hmmm, you may be a good guinea pig for what I have in mind. Stay tuned. 
Marc
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I have a HTML file with list of my favorite links which is start page of my chrome. Occasionally I update that HTML file with new links.
In CP, I visit Insider, Soapbox & Lounge regularly. And GIT too where you could find Nish mostly.
Using this way, I save the typing time. And importantly searching & thinking time about sites as already I have those in my HTML file.
Please inform me if you find any software for this to save more time on this.
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I really like Pearltrees.com. It allows me to quickly save links in categories for later browsing. I made one category for interesting news sites. I have occasionally tried your method, but I have too many browsers on too many computers. I have in the past put the links on a public page on the Internet, but it is always a nuisance to update. I have since installed Pearltrees on most of my browsers on all of my computers, and can see all of the links immediately on any other browser. The links are public (I use an anonymous alias). They even have a collaboration feature, in which a person may invite another to collaborate on a category. I have collaborated with strangers from all over the world on some.
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Marc Clifton wrote: when it comes to using computers to filter out the crap
If that is your goal, I suggest printing it* out and using it** as toilet paper 
*: the internet, that is 
**: the printout
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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Multi-pronged, in order:
1. When I see a newsy website I like, I sign up for email notifications of new items. So, I use my email as the first source.
2. news.google.com is my home page.
3. Facebook for news from friends and relatives and sometimes other news that Facebook selects for me to look at.
4. Pearltrees - a browser add-on that I've installed on all of my browsers on all of my computers, allows me to quickly save links in categories and see them from any other browser or computer. I have one category for interesting news sites.
5. Click on the ads for news that I happen to notice in the margins.
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DAILY: codeproject, geekstuff, makeuseof, sitepoint WEEKLY: Stackoverflow, Superuser AS NEEDED: Several Journals, BLOGs and tech support discussion sites. Hmmm... I guess I need to get a life or learn to hate code and problem solving!
 Facebook noway!
"Courtesy is the product of a mature, disciplined mind ... ridicule is lack of the same - DPM"
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Marc Clifton wrote: What I'm getting at is, it seems like we're still in the stone ages when it comes to using computers to filter out the crap and alert us to when something that we have said we're actually interested in occurs
When AI reaches the level that it can correctly assess my mood to guess what I might want to read then I am going to be much more excited about the real robots running around (since they won't require that level of AI.)
Until then I will just have to continue to randomly and impulsively bumble throughout the day finding interesting stuff to read.
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jschell wrote: When AI reaches the level that it can correctly assess my mood to guess what I might want to read then I am going to be much more excited about the real robots running around (since they won't require that level of AI.)
Agreed, but that's not the goal.
jschell wrote: Until then I will just have to continue to randomly and impulsively bumble throughout the day finding interesting stuff to read.
The goal would be to provide you with more information than say, just the title of a post, to make your bumbling more efficient.
Marc
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CodeProject.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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I am thinking of looking for a new job. This is hideous
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The thinking is hideous?
Or are you looking for a hideous job?
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Please don't swear at me - this is the Lounge.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Yes, that's hideous!
(are there no end users that could do that when the product is shipped?  )
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The problem is...it's going to take a month or more to find a job, work out your notice and start your new job.
And all that time you will be doing the thing that drove you to leave (along with any other nasty jobs that come up, since you are leaving anyway).
So you will be starting the new job about the same time that you'd be getting into something more interesting in your current one, wouldn't you?
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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This is true. In the meantime the business could decide that UI test automation is a complete and utter waste of time and effort and money
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And the new company could decide that since you already know how to do it it's got to be worth a try... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I used to use Crystal Reports in the 90s and it was on my CV which I have not updated in a decade. I recently got a job offer in Sydney doing CR in VB.net, be careful what you wish for!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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If you've got the right tools, I've found it can be quite fun. But if you're doing it manually, yeah, that is hideous.
I had fun writing some custom code for testing WPF UI's recently. Took me down quite a few interesting rabbit holes which confirmed in my mind how poorly architected WPF actually is, but regardless, I got the UI test automation working in its own thread without any nasty "Sleep" calls. It's a solid testing framework and I'm quite proud of it actually.
Marc
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WPF I could probably cope with - this is HTML/ASP.net (which I have no experience in whatsoever)
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