Review

A recent British Medical Journal commentary argued about the fairest peer review system in biomedical publication.

Peer review system has been a time-honoured process of evaluating scientific manuscripts; qualified individuals within a relevant field are often invited to critique and comment upon a submitted manuscript (without monetary reward or academic recognition, in case you're interested to know) before the editors make a final decision to publish it or not.

Is it fair? Not even close. No, it's not fair; but it is a fact

Wesi

Wesi

這天一踏進家門,你便衝向我,小手拉着我,指向牆上破了一角的大紅蝴蝶結,說:「爛爛。」

噢!那是早幾天才掛出來的聖誕裝飾呢!

我蹲下來,平視着你,輕輕地問:「是誰弄爛的?」

你瞇起眼睛,笑笑指着自己的鼻子說
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Reeder App for Mac - Usage Tips for My New Favorite News Reader...

After about a week's use of Reeder for Mac (currently at 'Draft 4' status), I can finally ditch NetNewsWire, and confidently state that I would pay maybe something like $20 for this new Mac application.

NetNewsWire has always been a little slow, a little clunky, but at least it was reliable.

Reeder for Mac - Draft 4

Reeder brings a lot of the simplicity of the iOS Reeder apps (both of which I have - Reeder for iPad and Reeder for iPhone ) to desktop Macs. There are some odd


請做一次我的鏡子

最近有人批評我跟別人討論問題時的態度是「只有我懂,其他人都不懂」,我反躬自問,自己實在從來沒有這個想法。學然後知不足,我是個不斷學習、力求進步的人,而我的動力,就是源於我意識到自己的不足。我當然知道有

街旁Jiepang這隻蟹,能否在港橫行?

朋友都罵我約我出來難過登天, 有時連打電話也找不到,可每次打開Facebook或Twitter或微博,卻又見我無處不在,可能這是社交網絡過度活躍症所致吧。

最近朋友發覺,我又有一個在虛擬世界常到的新地步,是為 街旁Jiepang

「這不是Foursqaure 的老

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A small request for C programmers: no static locals

I have a small suggestion for C programmers: please don't use staticfunction local variables. Yes, I know, they've been part of C for avery long time, they are kind of nifty, and they're sometimes nice. Butstill, please use a file level static variable instead, which has justthe same effects.

Well, almost. There is one important difference; in practice, manymore tools can find and inspect file level static variables than canfind and inspect function static


Chrome Web Store 開張

Google 今年還是未能趕及推出 Chrome OS,但 Web Store 就已準備就緒了。看到頁面一眾 App 靚仔排列,這是一個新奇好玩的新世界嗎?不好意思,大部份 App 其實只是 Bookmark 而已,有些 App 其實也只是 Flash ,真正用 HTML5 寫的有幾個?認真的,Web Store 應該加個屬


少味精,聽真有感情—Sony旗艦級鑑聽耳筒MDR-Z1000

某次看小田和正的音樂節目,發覺他在錄音室內,與一眾樂手都是戴著同一款Sony的鑑聽耳筒,後來再留意其他的日本音樂節目,但凡入錄音室,也會見到大家也清一色地用這一款耳筒。

明查暗訪下,我才知道,原來這款鑑聽耳筒

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愛與吻

年輕的時候,我有一個關於男歡女愛的「理論」,朋友一聽到,每每哈哈大笑,卻又覺得不是完全沒有道理。

男女相悅,一拍即合的不是沒有,但更多的是男先追女或女先追男,被追的那個,有時立刻便知道一定不會愛對方,然

網上聽歌

最近試用 Grooveshark 聽歌,網站用了 HTML5 技術 (只有 player 部份仍是 flash),用 Chrome 或 Firefox4 都感覺暢順,就像用 native app 一樣,但比起家中的 iTunes 就有更龐大的 music library。

相比一下比較傳統網頁式的同類網站,如蝦米網,就會有較多其他功能,例如 Artist 頁、好