Users are lazy

Here is something important to remember when designing systems andinterfaces: users are lazy . Worse, not only are users lazy butthey're very good at detecting pointless work.

What is pointless work? Simple: it's work that the user doesn't see anyvisible benefit from performing (or doesn't understand the benefit andso discounts it, or feels that the benefit is a lot smaller than you'remaking it out to be). Of course, the work is not pointless to you


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Dear Elaine,

不知道為甚麼,每一次遇上的男人,每一個都不會重視我。

他們總覺得用不著花心思去對我好,又不會送禮物給我。

即使我讓他們知道,有別的追求者出現,也不過是口說在意,實際上根本聳聳肩算

WishList: HP TouchSmart PC IQ838hk


好想有部擺鋪頭,HP可唔可以sponsor我....?

貪方便

那天朋友說起一宗真人真事。

事發地點: 氹仔某街道經常會有車輛隨意停泊,亂泊車的車主可能去了超級市場購物,可能為了買一杯飲品,也可能是去銀行提款。總之,車主們往往為了貪方便而把車子停在路上,阻塞交通。

事發

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人人變美容達人

港姐袁彌明自設網址,親身示範各樣化妝及護膚品,加埋短片真人示範,並聲稱可代為入貨,雖然不是主力引入日牌貨品,但勝在夠說服力,最近她推介日牌 Atorrege AD+,大家不妨看看。另一個可買到日本藥妝店貨的

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燃燒三十後搖滾夢《Rock On!!》



人到了而立之年, 是否不配再有夢想? 踏踏實實是穩定之道? 如果心中那團火從不熄滅, 怎樣才不枉青春一場?

不知道有沒有人很難接受Bollywood的一套? 相比鄰近各邦, Bollywood已是較西化的一派, 也較其他印度地區的「神怪」電影易入口
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今年港姐又有「 女 版 許 愿 」


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【第 37屆港姐 10強曝光】好一句「不再平凡、擁抱無限」。 10位角逐港姐后冠的佳麗,昨日首度

Another way that generators are not lists: modifying them

A long time ago, I wrote some stuff on how generators are not lists (okay, technically it was about iterators), andone of the things that I mentioned is that generators do not havelist methods. Well, there's a consequence of that that only struck merecently: you need completely different code to modify a returnedgenerator than to modify a returned list .

Suppose you have a function that returns something that is conceptuallya list of items. Further suppose that you have another function thatmodifies what


Monitoring systems should be always be usefully informative

There is a fashion in monitoring systems that, once you have one, youstart monitoring and alerting on everything that you possibly can thinkof, no matter what it is. If you can measure it, you do, and when itgets too big or too small your system lets people know about it.

This is, by and large, a mistake.

It is a mistake because you've created a system that isn't actually(usefully) informative, just noisy. What your monitoring system shouldbe


配額用盡不復來

過時過節,商業上的伙伴都會互送賀禮。朱古力、鹹肉糭、月餅、紅酒......講得好聽是「心意」,其實都是「做樣」。大家收到這些東西,時常會換一張賀卡隨即轉送出去。我曾做過一個實驗,在一盒別人贈送的月餅上