Those with well-developed social skills often have no idea the talents they possess, as they feel natural and self-evident to the possessor.

However, those with poor social skills have no doubt of their inability and ineptitude — those with good social skills won’t let them live down or escape their incompetence, and are punished for attempting to improve.

Having been on both sides of this, no one can tell me credibly this is untrue. I lived it.

It’s not the greatest issue of our time or anything, but I do find it darkly funny when those with high social skills condemn those with poor social skills while saying something like, “Of course a man shouldn’t talk to a woman in an elevator! I mean, DUH!”

But the thing is those with poorly-developed social skills would have no idea about this prohibition or why it exists. And even if they could reason it out later, it would not be obvious at the time.

Much of the “obvious” in the world of social relations isn’t as glaringly so as those who wish to punish the less socially developed make it out to be.

Again — been on both sides. It’s true whether you want it to be or not.

I decided to try Firefox 57 (nightly) to see how many of my current add-ons would still function after Mozilla decides to destroy itself.

And it is a grand total of 2 out of 39.

Yep, that is right. Two. Just two.

Firefox is so, so fucked.

I can’t easily screenshot all of my add-ons as I have too many (don’t feel like stitching images), but those marked “Legacy” in yellow? Yeah, those won’t work after 57 is released.

This is almost comedic in the fail train this will end up being. I would spew more invective and expletives, but it’s pointless. This kind of incompetence takes care of itself.

Firefox will be utterly useless to me after 57 is released. What a bunch of wankers who don’t know how hard they’re about to fail.

Even if the Google manifesto writer were correct about all of his suppositions, that implies that tech would still be 40-45% women, instead of less than 20%.

Though all of his points weren’t as prima facie absurd as made out to be (though some were indeed huge fails), I think tech would be better for the world and for humanity if it were about 70% women — not due to any biological differences but because women are socialized to be more well-rounded people than most men.

More well-rounded people == better outcomes.

Also, at the least women wouldn’t insist on making only huge phones no one smaller than 6’2″ can hold in their hand. That is a pet peeve of mine.