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They sure appear to need it. I've been following Mac-related Bugzilla-reports during the past year and it seems to be desperately understaffed.

But you don't have to frequent Bugzilla to see that. For example, Firefox on OS X still has the pre-10.7 scrollbars while Chrome got the new ones fixed shortly after the OS-release. That was now over a year ago.

Despite this, Firefox (or Nightly) is still my primary browser for many reasons, including add-ons and the fact that I truly believe that Mozilla want what is best for the web.

That last reason is also why I'm so sad to see them fall behind like this. Without their market-share, they won't have much say on web-matters and should the web be shaped completely by money-driven interests, the users would suffer.

Please Mozilla, get your act together and don't neglect your browser on any platform. Every user counts.
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The point here is that natural advantages make you more capable for some things than others. You can't be blamed for not being able to achieve something that you shouldn't have realistically expected to achieve.

That said, some things are your fault. I still bite my nails at 19. Forcing myself to quit is possible, and I have only myself to blame if I don't. It's the same for weight-loss, so that's a horrible example.
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The new Digg
Entry is also limited by multi-billion dollar spectrum auctions. Evenid. Google couldnt win with their $pi B bid.
Seems like you're painting with a broad brush. Design of HITs on Mechanical Turk is crucial. Implement gold standard questions per assigment to ensure that you're not receiving spam from a bot.
If you believe what you read, it takes ~10000 hours to master an activity.

Most people give up long before then.

So people almost never achieve their real potential which is really what Phelps and the blog are really about.

That Phelps used "some" hyperbole is not surprising - he didn't spend that 10000 hours honing his public speaking.
Thanks everyone for the upvotes and the positive comments! I'm the author of the blog post and the book.
"""Choosing "New Window" from Firefox's dock menu does not open the new window in the active Space""" (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=574229) has been driving me crazy every day since I started using a Mac for work.
There's actually alot of things they could fix to improve the user experience. Just signed up for an account and it wasn't overly pleasant.
List of a few gripes:

* No ajax on name availabilty

* very limited secret question options ( min of 5 chars for answers)

* Wasn't overly obvious which fields were required until you hit submit ( in the end I think they were all required)

* Initially there was a smug looking guy on the login page(pretty nitty picky) he seems to be gone now but if goto www.outlook.com you get a broken image
It's not really true, but I've always thought of it as a slogan to dispel irrational fear around trying something new. In that it has it's use.
Do you have a mailing list of anything else I can sign up to to be notified when this launches?
No POP/IMAP. No forwarding. No thsnks.
This will test my theory that the success of a product launch is directly tied to how many HN users hate it.
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This is a well known technique: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_writing
Don't forget he correctly predicted the Roomba!
As primitive as modern medicine still really is, I think it is important to remember that it is not like engineers with no medical training are actually going to do any better. Yes, you figured out that you had low blood sugar. Doctors would have as well. If that weren't the case, we'd sack all the doctors and hire engineers to fill the hospitals instead.

Put it this way: your average highschool geek can program a little. If they put their back into it, it is not unheard of for them to engineer solutions to whatever it is that they are trying to achieve (they are after all rather bright.) On particularly rare occasions, the untrained highschooler can teach himself enough to rival seasoned software developers in a very narrow segment of the field, but will quickly be out of his depth again if the situation changes.

I would say the gap between highschool geek and seasoned software developer is somewhat comparable to the gap between engineer and medical doctor (if anything, the comparison gives doctors too little credit.) The difference really is that you are playing with your own health, not some relatively speaking inconsequential software.

(This all said, the cost problem is of course very real.)
And this, kids, is one reason why affirmative action is necessary.
Seems like old user accounts wont work any-more - instead requesting to log in with a FB account - guys just forget it right away.

but then "De mortuis nil nisi bonum" (Speak no ill of the dead)
Completely anecdotal, but all of the people I know who used Firefox now use Chrome.

Well, it's only an ancedote. The data suggests something different.
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This is somewhat of a nitpick, but for one thing, writing code that is as obviously correct as possible is important in every language, not just in Haskell. Compositionality is one of the most valuable things we can exploit when programming.

For another thing , the assertion that enumerating all the cases for a given function instead of using a lookup makes the code more obviously correct is somewhat flawed - it violates DRY, which is, like exploitation of compositionality, important in programming in general. Suppose the showPiece function had twice the number of cases. Would enumerating the cases individually or making the assertion that the code is more obviously correct as a result be reasonable?

In my view, you are solving the same problem whether you use a lookup or enumerate the cases individually, and it's not even a very big problem - just put your tokens in the right order.
Sorry, but this is the dumbest blog post I've read in a while. I'm not even sure why he even bothered posting this. Is it really to say "Hard work is never enough if you want to be the top person in the world at something"? Did he just recently come to the conclusion that he has been "lied" to in that hard work isn't enough some times, and that luck and natural advantage could somehow trump everything else?

Of course not everyone can become an Olympic athlete just by trying. And of course not everyone will be the next Steve Jobs or Zuckerberg no matter how hard they try, either. That's not the point.

The point is that most people don't even bother trying, and if you try, if you even just show up on a regular basis, you can probably reach above the 50th percentile in anything.

I would bet that almost anyone who puts a concerted effort into any endeavor could get to the top 25th percentile in just about anything. Hard work and hustle can bridge a lot of gap that natural ability and luck may create.

But if he is somehow just now coming to some epiphany that hard work can't trump luck and/or natural advantage (either thru ability or status), then my answer is: "Welcome to the real world." You need to temper any goals you have with maturity and realism. I'm a terrible basketball player, but I'm sure if I spent 1hr/day every day playing pickup for 1 year, by the end of a year, I'll be better than at least half of the regulars. But if my expectations are that I'll be able to dunk and beat Michael Jordan, I'd be delusional.
Nice of you to open source it. I haven't looked over your code, but some thoughts come to mind.

Security - Make sure this doesn't lead to a back door into people's devices. Or make sure someone doesn't utilize this to make your product undesirable.

User opt in - Give users the ability to opt in or not. Tracking information might be useful, but some people do not like it.

Rollback is an important feature. User control of this feature with notification is a bonus. I.E. notify the user an error occurred with the option to rollback to a release that was stable for them. Currently we provide a link to all past versions which they can download and install over the current version if there is an issue. Not the best solution, but it has worked for us.

Internet access for applications that do not need it. This is tricky, so providing another service or plugin might be the way to go.

Automation - Manually keeping track of problems and resetting or rollback features can be time consuming. An automated approach with user opt in would be great as well. Automated analytic info on top of it would be even better.

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You can do the same in GNOME.
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I love the art at the top. Go Jon!
There is nothing in ruby that is geared towards web development, not any moreso than python anyway. It just happens to be mostly used for that.

Ruby does however lack a lot of the ecosystem of scientific libraries python has, there is no real equivalent to NumPy for example.
If you looked at either the Kick Starter page or the YouTube video you'd see several projects build with the UConTroll, as well as a picture of the prototype. Also, nothing in the copy indicates the board is available yet. To the contrary, there are several places where we refer you to the Kick Starter page.
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I tried going to outlook.com and it immediately kicked me out with a "cookies required" page. How is it sensible for any web site, anywhere, to make this the visitor's first impression? Even if a site does need cookies somewhere, I think it's ridiculous to design something that requires a cookie all the time.
More inane babbling by svbtle bloggers. How is this hacker news worthy?
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I think for a lot of people, being able to keep a pseudonymous identity is one of the few things that differentiates sites like reddit and digg from Facebook and twitter in the first place. Most people I know aren't crazy about letting others know what their reddit username is, let alone slapping everything they do on their Facebook feed.
If you or I had started swimming at age 4 and had top coaching, There would be little hope against a genetic freak like Phelps. Also, the existence of him and many other slightly less extreme genetic freaks means that it would be a very, very poor idea to invest time in trying to become a great swimmer. Unlike them, we'd have no career prospects.

The author was right. It's much better to invest time and effort into a pursuit where you have an advantage. And it follows logically that if you don't have any natural advantages, then you should stay the heck away from winner-take-all professions.
Great. So now they'll just raise their data prices. Woohoo!
HN is not a democracy. If you watch closely enough, you'll see plenty of posts (and comments, and users) disappear if the moderators do not agree with them.
They don't have to be skeezy. Even Apple has a sales letter:
http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/features/
Related to this, I'm trying to be less technical/picky when talking to people.

I gain nothing when I interrupt someone to correct their bad phrasing, if I already understood what they mean't. I'm just being annoying and pushing people away.
I love the new design, and I love the new content. There were at least three articles there that caught my attention right away, that I stopped to read before even returning to this thread.

Content-wise, it's not the same ol' garbage that keeps getting regurgitated on Reddit, or the same ol' subjects that keep getting rehashed to death on "Hacker"News. ("PHP is a terrible language!" "No it's not!" "Yes it is!" ... yuk.)

Visually, it's not a list of links which can only draw your attention by gaming the headlines. It's about time someone re-remembered that a picture is, indeed, worth a thousand words.

As far as comments go, it's been a long time since I've been consistently enriched by reading the comments on anything anywhere. (This thread is a good example, my blathering included.) I've got my fingers crossed for Web 3.5: "Here's a nice page, shut up and enjoy your stay."
Thanks for that, those guidelines look very helpful. Would you say I haven't generally followed it with this letter? I was careful to follow roughly this order.
Oh, wow. I definitely wasn't aware of that. Maybe it's because I didn't know what a sales letter was, and now that I'm aware of it, I'll start seeing it everywhere.
dumbest blog post I read in a while. sorry that you had a shitty day dude...but don't worry, there is better ones coming up :)
We work with Excel 2007 and 2010 ;)
For a bit of a laugh I wrote a Conway's Game of Life in Excel using cells as pixels. I could get quite smooth animation up to a screen size of around 200x200 cells. The main bottleneck was the need to check every cell in the grid, every generation, which quickly becomes hard for VBA to do smoothly. It was fun however to see Excel doing animation.
Good, solid response to the intrusion. I'm particularly happy about the two-factor opportunity. I have no problem re-authenticating every 60-90 days with an SMS sent to my phone, and _definitely_ want any new system to be two-factored before having access to my Dropbox.
There's something about them calling it "Digg v1" that really annoys me. Digg version 1 was... the original Digg, no? I dunno what particular version of Digg this thing is, except that as a reboot of an existing property/brand it's obviously not version 1.

It might be their version 1, but calling it "v1" in public makes it feel like the old Soviet pictures where the leaders who had fallen out of favor were airbrushed out (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_images_in_the_Sov...). "Nyet, Comrade! Commissar Rose was never in charge of this tractor plant!"

It just feels really disrespectful to the original Digg team, at least to me.
> Rule No. 5: Keep a dream diary.

I wasn't expecting that one.
> Chrome is faster

Sometimes, but it depends. For example, Firefox beats Chrome at JSGameBench here (a gaming benchmark including canvas hardware acceleration and JS),

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/windows-7-chrome-20-fire...

Also, while Chrome wins on most standard JS benchmarks, real-world JS is different. New code often runs faster in Firefox than Chrome. For example, the Linux emulator in JS ran 2x faster in Firefox when it came out, and I can link you to bugs I've filed on Chrome where it currently runs code 10x-15x slower than Firefox.

> more light weight

Many browser shootouts find Chrome to use more memory than Firefox, especially with large amounts of tabs. For example, Firefox beat Chrome at both memory benchmarks here

http://lifehacker.com/5917714/browser-speed-tests-chrome-19-...

> more standards compliant

Definitely not so. First, while Chrome has various standards implemented first, so does Firefox (a few examples off the top of my head: anisotropic filtering in WebGL, Mouselock, various JS ES6 features like WeakMaps, etc.).

Also, Chrome ships with a lot of non-standards-compliant technologies that are enabled by default. For example, WebSQL, NaCl, Flash.

> It's also open source

Chromium is, Chrome is not. Chrome contains a lot of additional closed source code, from a PDF reader to a software shader engine.

Bottom line, there are plenty of good reasons to use either Chrome or Firefox. What is important is both drive each other to do better.
Thank you. One the most inspirational comments on HN in a while.
I've always thought that at a local level, you can become the best with enough hard work. Want to be the fastest runner, swimmer, or the student with the highest grades at your high school? Just work harder.

It gets more difficult when you reach world-class. That's where genetics come into play, because at that point it's hard to argue that anyone is really outworking anyone else.
It turns out this is one of the core problems with Mechanical Turk that drives folks to MobileWorks instead.

In Turk, users spend so much time implementing protection against malicious workers and bots that they need to develop real expertise in crowdsourcing in order to be able to outsource their work effectively.

We've filtered workers more effectively up front and reduced the incentive to cheat substantially, so things largely just work.
Can I ask you this: what purpose are you inferring the author had in writing this article?
original digg was v0. this is not lua
Iirc when Andy Herzfeld demoed overlapping Windows with automagic clipping Xerox engineers were flabbergasted. Perhaps Xerox had overlapping windows but clipping was left to applications.

In an event, speaking as someone who actually used Xerox's systems years after the Mac shipped, it was hugely inferior in all important respects to the original Mac UI -- any superficial similarities notwithstanding. Again, see Alan Kay's comment.
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Oh no, not that "Magazine Layout" crap. I get why designers choose it, they want to make the page look lively and balance content all over the place but it's terrible for readability. It breaks natural eye flow from left to right then top to bottom. With magazine style layouts, your eyes have to go all over the place to skim through the content and that just gets annoying. If they wanted to avoid looking like a blog but still keep the lively look and feel they could have tried a grid like layout where at least the stories are aligned horizontally in a straight line.

The style itself is really nice, blocky and beautifully simple. This is how you redesign a content site, its elements are purposely made minimal, simple, and sterile so that the content stands out above everything else. The site disappears and the content takes the stage. Basically, it puts the spotlight on the performer rather than the stage. Also, the site's so lightweight that it just feels fast. Very few elements are begging for your eye's attention which is great, it allows the eyes to go straight for the image and title. Everything about the redesign is just so right, it's a shame they went for the magazine style layout.

Either way, great redesign. It's won me over, and I will actually start returning to digg to see how things go over the next few months. This was a very nice rebirth, back to simple, back to content.
> I'm in no way asserting that guerrilla warfare is a perfect method of fighting or that it somehow guarentees success. At best it's 60/40.

And to reiterate my point about selection bias, I think you are wildly optimistic about its success and that a proper sample of hundreds of conflicts - include the less known ones - will show a lower success rate.

> It's not like there are a lack of examples.

You've named like, 10. That's better than most people could and I applaud it, but it's still nowhere near an answer.
What distinction are you making here? They also choose to not give you infinite storage space for free and choose to not indemnify you for copyright infringement when you send ripped mp3s as attachments. Every company operating in the US has to decide if offering services to children is worth the extra regulatory oversight.

If you'd like, I can rephrase, but the meaning is the same:

Google doesn't offer anything like hotmail's family account (where the child's account is managed by a proven parent's account), so if they find out that you're under 13, they will be in violation of the law if they do not close your account, and they aren't allowed to warn you that they will do so (or let you go back and change your birthdate).
The right column is the one that is confusing, looks like its a place for top news or something, however it's just another column with the same relevance, this is a little weird, just content accumulated with no context. Also, why is there no bury button on the home page, having only [digg] = [like] is boring. Overall this looks like a wordpress theme for a magazine, very tired design. I would expect more from a digg redesign.
What a bunch of negative bullshit. What do you expect Michael Phelps to say? "Hey kids who look up to me, don't follow your dreams because you probably don't have the right set of genes. Just acknowledge it's difficult and move on."

People act like being "world class" is some big mystery, but not in the 21st century. Extensive research has come to the conclusion that deliberate practice, over a long period of time, with the appropriate guidance of coaches and mentors is necessary and mostly sufficient to produce expertise in a field.

No, I don't think anyone can be Michael Phelps. In fact, it is clear that physical advantages go a long way in sports and athletic events. In almost everything else though, the right approach can produce mastery. The Polgar family is a living example of that w.r.t. chess. And most people are not looking to become world champions - they simply want to be successful in their endeavors. For that to happen, you must apply the same principles. To lose weight, I agree that saying "just diet and work out" is difficult, but most effective programs are either a result of intrinsic motivation or someone implementing a gradual program where you first cut out some sugar, then all soda, then cake, then you start eating one good meal a day, and so on and so forth.

In my view, this post marginalizes human willpower, which I consider one of the strongest forces in the world. Sure you won't be Michael Phelps, but you could say "No matter how hard you try, you will never become a Redwood," and I think the result is the same. Most people don't aspire to be world champion swimmers or extremely tall trees. They want to be successful in their endeavors, and for reasonably well off people in the Western world (which I think describes a large part of this board), there really isn't anything holding you back.

Ericsson et al. published a review of this field (expertise) in The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance (http://www.amazon.com/Cambridge-Expertise-Performance-Handbo...). It's 900 pages but if you can't make it through a serious book then you sure as hell can't succeed in anything that requires real dedication.
It's a bit like the worlds best lottery. To enter you devise a method that can generate lots of numbers. And then whoever has the numbers that match reality the best, wins $3 million dollars, a big desk and a really comfy chair.