Universities are open environments

One of the things that's led to the university Internet environmentchanging (per an earlier entry ) is thatuniversities are open environments in general and especially in termsof services. In this they are fundamentally different from companies,which can be much more closed and closeted environments.

I think that there's three reasons for this. First, there is a muchdifferent relationship between many people at the university and theuniversity. In a company, everyone 'at' or 'in' the company is workingfor


這一個月

一個月,到底值幾多錢?

之前一套我沒有看過的電視劇,出了一句流行的說話,問「人生有幾多個十年」,意思不外乎說,人生苦短,該做的事就應該馬上做,不該做的事就不要浪費青春。相信沒有人會答「人生大約有七至十個

下班時間


我們理論上是可以控制自己的生活節奏,妥善運用自己的時間。但事實上,所有上班族都有過生活時間受制於人,下班時間說不準的經驗。

究竟,我們應該在什麼時間下班,才不會惹人非議呢?

當然,如果因為工作未完成,或者

逃避現實讀書法


有時候我真的不知道,是我過了喜歡村上春樹小說的年齡,還是村上春樹的小說已經超過了我可以喜歡的境界。

我承認,我現在還會像虔誠信徒一樣,在他的新書《1Q84》出版時,第一時間去買書。

可是,讀了十幾頁就擱下

一板之隔


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Finally understanding the appeal of 'Interfaces'

I spent a long time not really getting the need for coded, explicitimplementations of 'Interfaces', by which I mean things like zope.interface . Itdidn't help that I generally encountered them as part of very large,complex systems like Zope and Twisted, and they tended to come with alot of extra magic features, which made the whole idea seem like thesort of thing you only needed if you had to deal with such a beast.

Then, recently, the penny dropped and I finally


實現和逃避

朋友和我都是打機長大的,一樣沉迷在角色扮演類的遊戲之中,但甚麼遊戲才是角色扮演呢?內裏有些故事。

角色扮演,對他來說,就是以某一個角色的身份活一次,不單是活,還是以那個角色獨特的身份、世界觀、優點和缺點

Zappos留人絕橋,送錢俾剛接受完training的新人走?

呢個世界上有無老闆會俾 training 新人, train 完會叫員工可以選擇留低或者大拿拿攞住 $1000 蚊美金無條件咁走人?

Zappos 呢一間網上賣鞋的公司就係用這個方法篩選新人,佢成唔成功?自己聽下哈佛大學教授點講。