[Sigia-l] Today's Circuits in the NY Times

[Skot Nelson]

Today's Circuits column from the New York Times offers a nice lesson  
in software design, from David Pogue's interview with Blake Ross, the  
lead for the Firefox project.

> BR: So basically I go home
> and I say, "Hey, Mom, you know, what's still wrong with the
> internet? What's bothering you?" And she tells me.
>
> DP: You ask your mom?
>
> BR: Well, she'll yell at me. And I'll say, "Mom, calm down.
> What's wrong?" And then I'll fix that.
>
> DP: I wonder why Bill Gates's mom couldn't do the same thing?
>
> BR: Yeah (laughs).

What I find interesting about this, is that everybody I know thinks  
Firefox is only for geeks. Everytime I get a "normal" user using it  
though, they never go back to Internet Explorer. (The Mac community  
is more ambivalent, and pretty happy with Safari.)
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Scott Nelson
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