記得在 RSS 閱讀器，看過有人打趣地提出，水立方是不是有甚麼不尋常？為甚麼差不多天天都可以破世界紀錄？這讓我即時想起了奧運的評述員說，除了運動員的努力之外，科技也的確幫上一把。今期的《Newton》中就有介紹被稱為「
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To go into solitude and wilderness, one needs to retire as much from the ticking of the time watch as from the society. To speak truly, few of us can stay away from the society without taking off the watch. The idea as to how I can learn to appreciate the tranquillity of nature was suggested to me during my "solo" session at the Outward Bound course ten years ago. I kept remembering everything, putting a tent up, seeing the most exquisite sunset of my life alone at a deserted island
What you select for when you make something harder
There is a general belief that when you make it harder for people to dosomething, you will get better results; better bug reports, better blogcomments, and so on. This is simplistic and, I am convinced, false inpractice.
The basic principle is simple: when you make things harder, you do notselect for quality; you select for people who care enough .
(Well, not entirely; you also select for people with lots of spare timeand for people who don't realize how
北京之旅
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day one
lunch@Lan Club in 朝陽區，環境一流，食物偏貴，水準一般，最好的是它那壺鐵觀音。
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推介：去飲野，不要去吃飯
afternoon activity@王府井大街，王府井書店。
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■袁彌明(左)玩撲克賭注大，吳文忻也感驚奇。
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吳文忻指袁彌明玩樸克的賭注很大，袁彌明笑言：「對方賭得細，這類玩意要有大籌碼先可以翻身，通常我和朋友一起玩，輸贏 （*最多
CLICK: What makes Olympic medals?
Simple Econometrics model by a few former University student.
Estimated medals Hong Kong and China will get are 3.56 and 91.23. What do you think?
Estimated medals Hong Kong and China will get are 3.56 and 91.23. What do you think?
《關於星級》@ 粉墨登場 by Kenneth Wong
關於 粉墨登場
再國色天香 , 傾國傾城的美女都要依靠胭脂水粉去點綴 ◦ 與其對影自憐 , 倒不如學會兩手耍家技倆 , 說不定有日美得沉魚落雁 , 閉月羞花 , 無論在任何時刻也擺好功架 , 粉墨登場 ◦
再國色天香 , 傾國傾城的美女都要依靠胭脂水粉去點綴 ◦ 與其對影自憐 , 倒不如學會兩手耍家技倆 , 說不定有日美得沉魚落雁 , 閉月羞花 , 無論在任何時刻也擺好功架 , 粉墨登場 ◦
An illustration of why syntactic sugar matters
Consider a couple of imaginary languages with different approaches tohandling simple structured data :
- in the first language, anonymous structured objects are created with
obj = {'field1': value1, 'field2': value2}and then accessed withobj['field1']. - in the second language, anonymous structured objects are created with
obj = {:field1 = value1, :field2 = value2}and then accessed withobj.field1.
(Both languages also support the