Another problem of secrecy
Another problem of secrecy is that it robs people of the ability toobject.
When it's secret, you don't know that something is being done, and ifyou can see something happening you don't know why. Happenstance,coincidence, deliberate action? Who knows, and who can argue when youdon't know what to argue against or when. (In extreme cases, even whoto argue with.)
(I guess the problem of secrecy may nothave been entirely that, after
A sociopolitical advantage of distributed version control
One of the recent discussion topics on Planet Debian has been version controlsystems, especially distributed VCS versus centralized VCSes like CVSand Subversion. (I have some opinions on this myself, so I read the entries with some interest.)
One of the points brought up for DVCSes, expressed for example here or the comments here , is thatwith a DVCS you don't have to start your serious involvement with aproject by begging for commit access (that you are unlikely to get,since you have no track record
sentimental小劇場
必須一提：今次一起
回歸六周年之我終於放假
過去沒有的，不會一下子擁有，以前不必要紀念的，即使紀念了幾年，仍不一定要放在心上。
那不是愛國愛澳的問題，那是習慣問題。
過去五年，我每年都要參加傳統社團或政府主辦的回歸活動，升旗禮、奏國歌、下午的酒會、
激烈的矛盾點（兼答留言）
如果「公物」的定義是「給公眾使用的物品」，則圍欄、鐵馬其實都是由警方使用的物品，警方用它來 攔阻公眾，限制公眾的行動。 當人民以自己的方式去使用鐵馬或圍欄時，它才成為「公物」。
如
一個澳門人看香港的世貿示威
星期六晚，我像大多數人一樣在家中看電視，留心香港的世貿示威。
坦白說，我也是在近日才加深了對世貿的認識，在這次香港主辦會議之前，世貿是一個遙遠的話題。
星期六之前，香港的傳媒都集中報導會場外的示威，我以為
絕食聲援被捕示威人士聲明
立即釋放 撒銷控罪
絕食聲援被捕示威人士聲明
世貿會議本身就是一場強大暴力，而警方在連日遊行中使用過份暴力鎮壓和平示威者的行為，就是保衛這場暴力會議的進行。昨日下午在鴻興道示威區警方以水炮鎮
Initializing Python struct objects with optional defaults
Recently I was writing code to register names and theirattributes. There were enough attributes that I didn't want to specifyall of them all of the time, so I did the obvious Python thing: I madethe register() function take a bunch of keyword arguments that haddefault values. The attributes are stored with a struct object , because I wanted an attrs.attribute syntax for accessing them.
The straightforward way to initialize the struct object was to write' vi = ViewInfo(factory = factory, onDir