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Being a distinguished engineer at Mozilla doesn't necessarily make one far more qualified to understand the vast array of potential implications of Google gaining monopoly power in a variety of web sectors.
Agree. NoScript is fantastic and under-appreciated. Also agree on how FF updates tend to be infuriating.

I'd really love to see FF do something really smart with certificate management. E.g. like Certificate Patrol but more advanced. That would be a major security improvement over what's out there.
> They also provide several services such as editing, marketing, designing, making ebooks, etc

And you know what? They are incredibly bad at most of this. I have a friend who's recently been accepted by a publisher, and he gets virtually no support from them for promotion of his books. Their sole job seems to be putting the books on the shelves in a few places.

At the same time, if you were a marketing guy, you wouldn't want to waste your time working in such companies anchored in centuries of immobility.
This reminds me of Enigmo http://www.pangeasoft.net/enigmo/
> - please don't default to a "downloads" folder.

I switched my default download directory to /tmp and haven't looked back.
>>just because your parents had money.

They don't 'just' have money. Its not like some fairy shows up on one particular night drops a suitcase full of money outside their doorstep.

Life is full of choices and actions we take.

If a parent slogs all their life to ensure their kids have a good future and another parent doesn't. Then I'm very sorry that's exactly the future these people chose for themselves.

Ironically these are the same people who keep talking of work life balance, quitting jobs and taking care of kids and all that. While somebody else builds a financial empire. In the real life a parent who is always busy but can provide financially is vastly more preferable to kids than some who isn't but stays at home just to take care of them.

Learn to live with your choices and decisions.
"I look at what punishment Microsoft got for its anticompetitive behaviour and I wonder how long it can be before Google is dealt with."

That's a good point. The article says that Google is "writing contracts with Android OEMs forcing them to make Chrome the default browser". When Microsoft was doing that a while back with Internet Explorer, they were sued by the government and forced to unbundle IE from Windows.
> Auto-updates are always on

I really hope this isn't going to become a standard thing. There are still plenty of people like me who are stuck with something like satellite internet, which forces us to micromanage our data usage. I can't afford to just have things auto-updating whenever they want.
A friend recently published a Kindle Single, about 16,000 words. It's done quite well, largely because of three factors: Amazon marketing, the popularity of the subject matter, and timely external events tied to the subject matter. The piece is currently in the top 120 of the Kindle store.

I'm certain that Amazon marketing has played a significant role in the initial success of this piece. On the other hand, I proofread the final draft that the author had before approving the piece for publication. The Amazon/Kindle person he had been working with as a proofreader supposedly had 25 years experience proofreading at the NY Times. I probably found 100–200 errors, not the "I would do it like this: kind, but the "this is wrong" kind.

When I spoke to my friend/author later on, he said that the proofreader is simply overwhelmed with work. I can't remember how much she once described to him she'd have to do in short order, but it was a ridiculous amount of work.

So while there is a value add to a middle man like Amazon, I can see how there are shortcomings to what they offer since the grunt-work side of publishing isn’t their focus, even if they do a bit of it. That’s not to suggest the long-standing publishers are better, just that there are shortcomings to what each style of publisher offers, and it may be difficult for a new author to learn the shortcomings before it’s too late.
Mostly the ability to message anyone and view who is viewing me to know when to contact them. I am running a startup and anyway that I can network is great.. linkedin has been the biggest help in that aspect
Diffusion is important for light too; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiosity
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There is a lot of artificial scarcity out there so success is closer to zero sum than we like to think. How many new doctors or freshman seets at harvard are there each year? Such artificial bottlenecks mean people are ranked not on some absolute scale of a specific standard but relative to their peers so pushing someone up means pushing someone else down.
I also use Firefox as my primary browser (with NoScript), but when I need to use Chrome, I find that the NotScripts[1] extension provides much of the same functionality.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/notscripts/odjhifo...
>>There's no special morality or justice that his daughter will have a relatively easy life, it's just luck.

Actually thinking this way will leave the person where they are. There is absolutely no doubt that luck exists. But what sort of logic is this to justify your failure with some one else's luck.
And how will that be better for you if you switch to chrome? Will google listen more to your UI wishes?

I also don't understand why you claim that Chrome has faster updates, since both browsers have a 6 weeks update cycle.
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No matter how simple you want to the browser to be, if you want this to be the one browser for the personal use, you need some settings.

Words cannot express how much I agree with this, and the frustration of finding out that some new version has removed an option I had before. I'd like to point out that the Firefox page description is (emphasis mine):

"Firefox is created by a global non-profit dedicated to putting individuals in control online."

If they really want to go with the no settings idea, maybe Lightspeed's description should instead be "Lightspeed is created by a global non-profit dedicated to putting Mozilla in control online."
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Brilliant comment. Awareness and acknowledgement of the advantages one has been given can often make a difference between people who put in some effort to ensure that others can do the same and people who believe they are somehow superior and those who did not make it are worthless.
I think this is a pretty innovative marketing ploy. Seems to make a blog post very Heroku centric if you add this button but I see the benefits.
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I think the easiest way to change search engine is to expose some UI when you browse to that site. For example if you go to google.com there could be a little dingus in the address bar that you click to make that your search engine.

I'm stealing this idea from Chrome, which already does that, somehow. If you go to a webmail site, there's a thing on the right of the omnibox, just left of the star, and if you click it that place becomes your mailto: url handling site.

As for search engines, Chrome has IMHO the dead-easiest way to install these of all. You only have to have gone to the site once. After that you get tab shortcuts for searching on that engine. There is a UI, but I've never seen or used it because why would you need to?
I might as well take the opportunity to point out that there's a new Shadowrun title (from last year) that's being continually updated and features a complete map/campaign editor for anyone to use.
Some parents literally just won a lottery rendering that justification moot. But let's lot forget the children of thieves, pimps, and drug dealers etc. In the end money has no moral weight.
I find it ironic that the country harboring Edward Snowden is implementing this policy.

( To be fair, Snowden's complaint was not that America has a surveillance state, but that the NSA was implementing it covertly. )
There are plenty of authors that the publisher
will deny the opportunity to even put a book
on the shelf.

I strongly second this. Precisely this. In as many words.

It's dumbfounding how artists, authors and advocates who claim to support those lowly artists and authors make such self-serving cases against the likes of Amazon, when it does not suit their mores.

What about the democratization of publishing? What about the ability of anyone outside the inner circles of literary royalty, to actually see their work in print? These very same advocates, could not care less.

This is also the reason that newspapers, tabloids and general interest magazines everywhere and the writers who write for them despise what Google has done to their curating (read: gate-keeping) potential.

Their power to singularly table the issues and frame the conversations around those issues has dwindled. And they loathe that with a fervor.

Make no mistake. Artists and authors who demand things to be done on their terms are, first and foremost are unbearable egotists. They want to control the narrative, the medium and the delivery. They want to be power-brokers of their craft. Anyone familiar with the publishing houses will tell you this.

( On a slight tangent, read up on the Frank Gehry - Eli Broad
fiasco to learn how difficult even architects are to work with. ) [1]

The outrage in most of these cases is not that some behemoth has unfairly moved the goal posts. Its that the changing landscape is allowing for a larger pool of players
to release their works and thereby introducing competition.
Hence the playing field is no longer tilted in the favor of these storied publishers and their authors.

That's the gripe here. As in most such cases.

[1]
Why and how Eli Broad is giving billions away
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-and-how-eli-broad-is-giving-...
I think most people have an intuitive understanding of free market principals. If a person can pay more for an apartment, they not only have the legal right, but the moral right, to outbid someone else.

In order to deal with inequality, we have progressive income tax and welfare. These mechanisms are the fairest, because they don't favor people based on their individual preferences.

Now a poor person who lived their whole life in SF doesn't really have an inherent preference for living in SF. And they probably are made worse off by the tech industry. But it is still the government, if anyone, who should compensate such people for their changed circumstance, and it's also practically impossible to figure out if that person is really worse off than, say, a person with the same income who lived in Detroit their whole life.

So there is no valid principal by which people should hate people in tech, and I think most people actually understand this.

However, people dislike nerds, and they like to rationalize their beliefs. I remember people called me arrogant in school, not because I was, but because that way they could enjoy the moral indignation. I think something similar is happening here.
I wish they would have given the stat of how many were in the high income bracket and how many of them moved to the low income bracket. I'm sure not many, but I'd be interested to know it.
Paul's comment about ADHD seems like really good advice, but assuming there is no medical solution to your dilemma, maybe some words of encouragement may help:

When you first start off programming professionally it feels like there's an infinite list of things you should have already learned, and it can be really overwhelming.

I remember my first job out of college, it was really stressful at first. Good news is that after a year on the job you'll feel like you've done it your whole life. There will always be things to learn but it slows down drastically after the first few months.

One bit of advice I have (and not everyone will agree with this) is that if you really feel that you're falling behind your peers, you may want to work longer hours than they do. It'll give you more time to learn and people have a lot more patience with someone who shows they're trying.
I'm a full-time working non-fiction author. I've worked with major publishers on past projects with excellent results, have received multiple major offers from major publishers for my upcoming projects, and have firm plans to self-publish new projects in the near future.

Early in my career, I also spent time negotiating with retailers like Walmart at a large consumer goods manufacturer.

I've been following this situation closely. I'm not personally affected (yet), but it's an opportunity to collect information in the interest of making better decisions about how to publish future projects.

In most ways, this is a pretty standard supplier/retailer negotiation. Most of these disputes don't go public, and don't last this long, but they happen all the time. Both sides are trying to use whatever leverage they have to negotiate the best possible deal. That's normal.

What's atypical about this particular negotiation is that authors are the counterparty that have the most at stake, but have no seat at the negotiating table. They're directly affected by the dispute, but have zero leverage, zero input, and zero recourse for losses incurred in the dispute.

The affected authors are, quite simply, the only real leverage Hachette has in this dispute, and Hachette is using them for all they're worth.

Here's the part of the NYT story that stuck out to me. It's buried close to the bottom:

"About half [of Preston's] book sales used to come from Amazon. But since the retailer started discouraging orders, his paperback sales are down 61 percent and his e-book sales are down 62 percent."

Hachette failed to come to mutually agreeable terms with their largest retail partner by dollar and unit volume. That's their most important job as a publisher, and they blew it, to the tune of permanently costing their authors 50-60%+ of sales they'll never recover.

Shipping books into retail distribution in a timely manner to minimize out-of-stocks is a publisher's second most important job. Production and distribution of physical finished goods inventory into retail is a hard problem, and most publishers are reasonably well equipped to handle it at scale.

When Hachette's contract with Amazon expired, Amazon (rightfully) stopped ordering advance inventory for stocking, but continued taking orders for available titles and transmitted those orders to Hachette as they arrived. From there, it's Hachette's responsibility to deliver the orders to an Amazon distribution center. Once the books arrive, Amazon packs & ships them to purchasing customers as normal.

That's why, when Hachette's contract expired, all of their books were listed as "Out of stock: ships in 1 to 6 weeks" - that's how long it takes Hachette to deliver stock. That's slow as hell.

Amazon didn't "boycott" or "drop" or "betray" authors or "discourage" readers from buying their books - it ceased offering retail inventory management services to a supplier whose contract had expired, and made a rational and defensible business decision when it became clear that the supplier was not negotiating in good faith to establish a new agreement.

Preston has a right to be pissed off, but not at Amazon.
The CEA is useful for prognosis, staging and follow up.
It is useless for diagnosis.

"The CEA test has a specificity of between 30-80% and it is not recommended by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) for the diagnosis of early colorectal cancer" http://www.patient.co.uk/doctor/carcinoembryonic-antigen-cea

Causes of false postive CEA include but are not confined to:

"Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

Pancreatitis.

Liver disease.

Tobacco use can lead to elevated CEA levels. (CEA is elevated in 19% of smokers and only 3% of the non-smoking healthy population.)

Diverticulitis.

Hepatitis.

Peptic ulcers.

Hypothyroidism.

Cirrhosis of the liver.

COPD.

Lung infection.

Pleural effusions.

Biliary obstruction.

Treatment with oral 5-FU.

High serum glutamic-pyruvic transaminase (sGPT) levels.

Non-malignant liver disease, including cirrhosis, chronic active hepatitis.[6]

Chronic kidney disease.

Pancreatic disease.[7]

Inflammatory bowel disease, diverticulitis, irritable bowel syndrome.

Respiratory diseases, eg pleural inflammation, pneumonia.

Smoking.

Ageing.[8]

Atherosclerosis

"http://www.kantrowitz.com/cancerpoints/tumormarkerfalseposit...
No, but it might. I'm sure the author has spent vastly more time looking at web standards and trends than I have and as such, his opinion should carry more weight than your average person.

You've simply pulled out a variation on the old "correlation does not imply causation" retort.
The disruption that people experience due to sudden price changes certainly has a negative affect on them, but this is simply the reality of demand for these resources.

It would be nice if the government or private industry could insure people against this kind of disruption, but I don't see it happening soon.

In the meantime, people are constantly affected by all sorts of circumstances out of their control.

Unless you don't believe in the free market at all, I don't see how the case of renters is any different.
Considering that I currently live in Seattle, have lived in SF and Oakland recently, grew up around Boston and work with a group out of Miami, I probably have pretty good idea of how warped it is in the Bay Area. Nice charts tho.
I did not switch to Chrome a few years back because it was better, but for because Firefox was worse. If both would've worked fine I of course would've not changed.

I don't know about today, but a few years back starting up Firefox was painfully slow, and when an update arrived it would first nag you about it and then during restart started checking for extension compatibilies. Even using felt sluggish and was temporarily fixed by running the sqlite vacuum in it db.

Chrome for whatever reason had none these issues, and it felt even slightly nicer to use, with usability enhancements all around like more fluid animations in tab moving, and all settings on a nicely laid out web view instead of a tiny modeless window with 10 tabs.

I really hope Firefox can not just catch up, but go past Chrome. Unfortunately the last time I tried it not too long ago, it didn't start but instead wanted to show that it is checking for extension compatibilies. Didn't exactly fill me with excitement.
Do you have any numbers to back up your theory? I'll buy that it's true in certain demographics (say, immigrant Silicon Valley hackers vs immigrant seasonal farm workers), but there are/were an awful lot of Asian immigrants who come/came from poor backgrounds with not much more than the shirts on their backs.
> Wyvern is a new programming language designed to help developers be highly productive when writing high-assurance applications.

What is a "high-assurance application"? I accept that it's my own deficit for not knowing this, but I do think that the Wyvern authors should embrace my kind and tell us what this is (and why we should care). In 5 years, this may be obvious, and hopefully by that time I'll be embarrassed that I even asked.
It wasn't the bundling that was the problem, its the fact that the bundling was a mechanism for leveraging their desktop OS monopoly to displace competition in a different market. You can't leverage a monopoly when you don't have a monopoly to leverage.
>>To the extent that the lack of choice derives from circumstances that a person didn't choose as an adult, that is unfair. It might be inevitable, but its unfair.

Again, its not. Unless you are stuck in a war zone or in some remote corner of Africa.

Most people in developed and developing nations today have the freedom to make decisions that decide how they are going live their lives. For centuries we've fought and asked for these rights, Now we have them. The fact is most people have fewer reasons to blame for their failures these days. Sooner or later you have to face the fact, you are what you are because of your decisions.

Even the person who works 16 hours at a factory has a choice. It might be a difficult choice, but the person still has some remote chance. The question is do you want to the same work another 15 years from now, or can you do something in your spare time and change that.

There are always going to be some people in that factory who won't be doing the same job 15 years from now, and there are always going to be people who will the same job 15 years from now.
We decided one of us would stay at home or we would hire a nanny. After A LOT of research we found that daycare services does not replace focused attention. I'm a strong advocate against putting less than 2 years old in childcare unless you absolutely need to. They need focused attention and the cognitive difference between kids that used childcare and had focused attention (at 2 years old) is very visible. Does that causes long term IQ disparity? Probably not, but it's something to consider. Specially if you feel that your child is developing fast and in need of stimulus. (this is visible at 6 months old).

We hired a full time nanny. Yes, it's expensive and takes a substantial part of one of our incomes but by doing that we had both a focused attention of a human and could keep our both jobs as we wanted. My wife only went back to work 6 months after the baby was born. This is our daily schedule:

7:00) Nanny arrives starts working on baby things (food, etc), me and my wife play with our daughter until 9, she usually wakes up somewhere between 6 and 7.

9:00) We both leave to work, nanny takes the wheel, at this point baby is tired and takes a nap

12:00) I come home to play with her a little bit and unwind for 30 min, then head back to the office

17:00) We both arrive, nanny leaves (I usually get earlier) we spend time with her until 9

21:00) Baby sleeps, I get back to work until 00:00, my wife is either studying or working

When the nanny is taking care of the baby she is doing a list of activities we both discussed (since the nanny is a pro), the baby also is always in contact with other kids, we pay a child care to let our daughter stay there for a couple of hours with our own nanny.

This is how we are doing, there isn't a right or wrong way since children are usually so unique in the way they develop.
There are a lot of Fotopedia alternatives out there.

Check out this comparison:

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Oops, you're right, I was confusing that with Zhongnanhai for some reason.
I don't remember if setting search via click had ever been done, but certainly when I was a kid (10-12 years ago), I vaguely remember when I visited sites like Yahoo, there would be an underlined text that read "click here to set this to be your homepage!"

I don't remember if it was actually possible without user to confirm or not, but I supposed the security reason prevents that from happening today.

The closest thing I can see is bookmarklet which is also very dangerous.
Selling ebooks is just not that complicated; it's an open question what value amazon brings to the market (in that sense, it's the exact same problem as Spotify.) If the top publishers jumped ship and started selling ebooks directly, I'd follow. The vast majority of the self-published stuff on amazon is utter shit, demonstrating both the value of a publisher as a filter and the value of editors. Obviously there are gems, but the majority is awful. Also, to be blunt: if you think that, were amazon to put the publishers out of business and therefore gain direct publishing control over most ebooks, they wouldn't take a hatchet to writers' pay, you're incredibly stupid.

Thinking that (1) writers wanting people to have more access to literature, and (2) working in their self-interest to be paid are incompatible is silly. Unless you're voluntarily giving up your salary so that more people can have access to software (or whatever else it is you do).