有些事情，在網上和電視上看見，與身歷其中，是兩個層次，例如戀愛，例如死亡，又例如災難。是的，我得承認，我們是未經歷過災難的一代人，我們見過，我們聽過，就是未曾置身過。
甚麼是災難？舉目觀看，四週躺著不認
快樂的韌度
早兩天寫 B和V兩位朋友 ，重點是眼界的闊窄和關懷的遠近，有讀者卻提到快樂的問題，認為B雖然活在小小的三人世界，但可能比V快樂，也可能比V更容易得到快樂；另有讀者指出即使B不比V快樂，B仍可以相當快樂，這
My theory on Unix's one chance to have a standard GUI
In an earlier entry I discussed my view on whyUnix vendors never got together and created a standard GUI, the way theycreated POSIX. It's my view that the Unix world had basically one chanceto create a standard GUI but fumbled it through (vendor) greed, althoughsadly understandable vendor greed.
Let's start with a question: why does Unix have a standard graphicalenvironment? Because it does; for at least two decades now, X Windowshas been the ubiquitous Unix way to do graphics (
The Social Network
剛看了 David Fincher 的《社交網絡》( The Social Network )，一部關於 facebook 創辦人Mark Zuckerberg的故事
還沒開始寫，只在facebook寫了一些零碎感受。
不如 add 咗我先啦 ! 我在fb的名字: Ellis Yip , profic pic 是一隻長江七號 ! 騎白馬的，和貓咪照片的，是另有其人。
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如此校長
星期一下午教完書回到家裏，還未坐穩，便接到兒子的校長打來的電話，告訴我兒子在學校跟同學爭執，弄傷了對方，校方決定罰他停課三天。
我做父親的覺得事態嚴重，但這校長說話時卻沒精打采的，像是做例行公事。據他說
我做父親的覺得事態嚴重，但這校長說話時卻沒精打采的，像是做例行公事。據他說
The problems with testing for round-trip capable codecs
In theory, testing a Python codec to see if it's round-tripcapable is pretty simple:
def willtrip(cname): c1 = [chr(x) for x in range(0, 256)] try: uc = [x.decode(cname) for x in c1] c2 = [x.encode(cname) for x in uc] except UnicodeError: return False return c1 == c2
(Since it's been a while,
長尾理論與利基文化
繼續讀舊書，這次是《長尾理論》。此書 2006 年出版，但理論至今仍然適用，只因網絡平等、分散、去中心化、沒有實體限制，必然會生出長尾。長尾理論說來簡單，就是指利基 (niche) 產品在網絡平台和推薦、過濾器下，會
挑戰者
在電視螢幕看到被困地底兩個多月的智利礦工終於重見天日，心裡感恩的同時，對何謂人生挑戰者有更深刻的體會。
跟他們面對的絕境相比，失戀、失業、成績欠佳、同人鬧交、做人無目標、無錢買樓、減唔到肥，全部都是小菜
跟他們面對的絕境相比，失戀、失業、成績欠佳、同人鬧交、做人無目標、無錢買樓、減唔到肥，全部都是小菜
Abortion II
Let's put the science aside, considering the current medical definition of abortion - would I advocate or not?
Well, a yes and a no.
Yes. In a social-function perspective, I support the law for legal abortion. We have entered a generation where pre-maritial sex is no longer a debate topic but a norm (I am not saying its morally right ), and in the short OG rotation I had seen at least 10 mother-to-bes who were still in their school
Well, a yes and a no.
Yes. In a social-function perspective, I support the law for legal abortion. We have entered a generation where pre-maritial sex is no longer a debate topic but a norm (I am not saying its morally right ), and in the short OG rotation I had seen at least 10 mother-to-bes who were still in their school