[H-GEN] Room Bookings Update

[Russell Stuart]

On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 10:17 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> What does HUMBUG have to do with running Firefox on Windows, though? It's
> already easy, so there's not much installation help needed; I don't
> think there's anyone in HUMBUG any good at hacking Firefox [0], and I
> suspect even if there are no one's good at hacking it under Windows;
> I don't think there's anyone in HUMBUG who does much plugin development
> for Firefox, either, though I could easily be wrong there. What's left?

What left is the gulf between people you and most other Humbug
members who swim in the open source sea and could kick just
about any software into submission, even some stuff they have
never seen before and some poor pleb who has downloaded Firefox 
can can't understand why it gives him an error when he tries 
to connect via HTTPS to port 563 - for example.

It's apparently always like this.  Experts almost universally
underestimate the difference between their abilities and
those of untrained people.

From: http://www.apa.org/journals/features/psp7761121.pdf

  "... highly competent individuals also show some 
  systematic bias in their self appraisals. Across the 
  four sets of studies, participants in the top quartile 
  tended to underestimate their ability ..."


>        http://linux.conf.au/programme/schedule/view_talk/164

Given by Akkana Peck no less.  She is always good.