helly

I find the topic of self-esteem super interesting.

Somehow it seems to be one of the most fundamental factors of our well being and the course of our life. Yet we usually don't even try to measure it. Do I have below or above average self-esteem? I couldn't say.

Googling around brought up the "Rosenberg self-esteem scale" questionnaire. I tried it. Scored is 14. Which is considered low. Uh oh :)

Now what?

I am running a popular website. In 2008, Firefox made up for over 80% of my users. Then Chrome came along, using all cpus and cores of the computer it runs on. A huge performance advantage. Firefox usage started to decline. Year after year, they added features, branding, etc. Never addressed the performance issue. Now Firefox is used by less then 10% of my users. And even with E10s, Firefox uses only one core for all scripts in all tabs. It even gets completely clogged up if there is one slow script in some tab.

I would love to know how the roadmap is decided on over at Mozilla. Everybody I talk to says "Nah, it's slow. I use Chrome". Yet they did never address it. Why?

Can't they just use the code from Chromium?

So to explain the world we see, we combine quantum theory, theory of relativity, dark matter, gravitation, electromagnetism, two types of nuclear force and a zoo of now 62 elementary particles?

I often wish for some kind of "Physical Philosophy". That tries to make sense of the world independent from those theories. For example: what if the theories just keep growing indefinitely? If we keep "finding" more and more complex theories that explain some aspects of what we see better then the old ones and keep "finding" new particles? What would that tell us about reality? What if we found a very simple formula that explains everything with just one type of particle and one dimension? Would it matter?

To me, the UI of Google+ feels so bulky and slow. Everything seems to be out of place.

It's a mystery to me, whom they are targeting.

Does anybody like their UI? If so, what device are you using? What do you think of FB vs G+?

I mainly use Firefox on the Desktop. And Facebook is somewhat ok. G+ feels completely out of sync.

Crashed Firefox. Empty screen in Chrome.

Reading is hard for me. I would love to find something like this for audio books.