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Sounds a good idea for an app lol, you fill out a little section for each skill, feed it job listings and it spits back out your sentences that match the buzzwords of the day that HR drones are looking for. It could even sort to present the sentences in order matching their appearance in the job ad and maybe intermix some non buzzword specific sentences to make it seem more real.

I think Google realized this a long time ago and it's also part of why they failed with Google plus. They just weren't willing to go down into the gutter the way Facebook is and try to suck up people's time to a ridiculous extent. They have remained too concerned, if you will, with providing actual value and Facebook, from day one, has never had that as a concern as their only concern is getting you to use the app as much as humanly possible.

They're dying, it may be a very slow death but the process has begun. They will become like Yahoo, Myspace, Aol, etc. They are not a Google that can pivot and do a number of different things. Also I've come to realize that Google has a much different relationship with it's users, Google doesn't try to suck up all your time it just tries to give you what you want when you want it, Facebook tries to gamify everything so that you're constantly checking it's useless drivel.

[dead] 9 years ago

Broken English? I don't get what this is supposed to mean

That sounds absurd to me, go hybrid first then go native once it takes off, you can write your app in JavaScript and have an app that runs in all major mobile devices and a website, I'm not sure how can be beat unless money isn't a problem, such as massive initial funding.

The idea of interchangeable cogs is completely unattainable if a non technical manager is the one hiring, replacing, etc the cogs. If you think about it it makes sense that the only type of person who could ever theoretically pull this off would be a master programmer who understands the project at such a deep level that tasks can be broken down into pieces consistently. I'm not saying it's possible but it's definitely impossible for any non technical manager to do.

I feel like a lot of my managers throughout my career have been taking the fake it til you make it approach. I guess they've"made it" but they're still faking it in terms of having zero technical competency to manage projects