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After the Nestle drivers and delivery workers ended a three-day-old strike, we heard a new story from another bank company in Hong Kong. To my amazement, they announced granting a day off for the employees on their very days of birthday. Like many "aha" ideas, it's so simple you wonder why nobody had thought of it before.
Why? You might ask. As Gordon Livingston has pointed out, life's two most important questions are "Why?" and "Why not
Why? You might ask. As Gordon Livingston has pointed out, life's two most important questions are "Why?" and "Why not
What is guaranteed in languages in practice
In theory, what is guaranteed in a language is the things that arein its (official) specification; if the specification is silent orsays that something is not guaranteed, it isn't, regardless of howimplementations behave.
More and more I have come to believe that this is mistaken, and that inpractice what is guaranteed in a language is what programmers code to,regardless of what the specification says. This is because of simplepragmatics: a new implementation that does not run most of the existingcode
粉絲的辛酸
古典翻新《太空奇兵‧威E》(Wall-E)
及吾無身
葉輝書展講座時,提到老子一句:「吾之大患,唯吾有身。及吾無身,吾有何患。」突然想起,這是中學時我極喜歡的句子,買來那種台灣水彩美女封面的筆記簿,內頁刷淡粉紅襯底憂鬱婉約俗氣,我在上面顛來倒去地寫吾之大