Ron Conway Explained

Post by Qz » Thu, Apr 08, 2010, 5:00 PM UTC

cookiecaper wrote: post #40

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Is chromium good? I just did ctrl+wheel up 10 times on that site in Firefox and had no problems.

Yeah, it's good. It's just the unbranded build of Google Chrome. I think it's just a bug with one of the features on that page; it seems to zoom to screen width and then crash when I try to go up more. Probably using a CSS shadow or something else uncommon and buggy.

I just went back, and zoomed in and out from max and min zoom levels back and forth several times, with a video streaming on my other monitor -- not a hitch. I really don't think there's anything wrong with the website.

Post by lanstein » Thu, Apr 08, 2010, 6:33 PM UTC

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You know, there's probably a whole class of professional athletes that have a hard time supporting themselves. I don't have the numbers, but I'd expect that most minor-league players don't make remarkable salaries, but they continue for a chance to make it to the major leagues.

Maybe they're not working hard enough. Larry Bird and Michael Jordan both said they were the first to the gym and the last to leave. My point here is simple: there are no shortcuts to success (other than rare exceptions).

Sort of. The minor-league baseball player example is sort of an anomaly - there are certainly baseball skills that one can improve with hard work, but there's not much you can do that will allow you to see the ball out of the pitcher's hand any better. One of the main benefits Barry Bonds saw from the HGH usage was that his vision was markedly improved, and if you can tell which pitch is coming by how the seams are spinning from further away than everyone else, it gives you a very distinct advantage.

A counterpoint to your Michael Jordan example: Michael Jordan, the minor-league baseball player.

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