What sort of user interfaces the web is good for

Here is a corollary to what standard interfaces are good for , in the form of a thesis:

The web excels at standardized interfaces, but requires increasinglyheroic amounts of work for excellent customized ones (once you wantto step out of what the browser gives you). This implies that webapplications are a natural fit for occasional usage things, where anyawkwardness of the web interface is overcome by the advantage of nothaving to learn yet another custom interface that you use for tenminutes once every month, or for things


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》》原諒等於縱容


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Bump

I found out recently that, among all those characters in the Mr. Men series by Roger Hargreaves, my wife loves Mr. Bump the most, ever since her childhood.

It didn't take me long to realize the reason.

For those of you who haven't read the children's literature of Mr. Men, Mr. Bump fell out of his bedroom window and bumped his head, leaving him wrapped up in bandage and loss of his memory. He keeps his looks after the injury and just

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How I split up my workstation's disk space

There's a lot of different ways to partition disks and split outfilesystems. Mine isn't necessarily the best one, it's just whatI use, partly because I am cautious and conservative.

My workstation has two disks, partitioned identically and generallymirrored. I split the filesystems up like so:

  • /boot is a separate and non-mirrored filesystem. I have a /boot2 on the second disk which I synchronize by hand every so often (usuallynot, to be honest, which is

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“一個民族需要的是精神的天空,特別是在一個物質主義的時代。沒有想像與激情,一個再富裕的民族也是貧窮的,一個再强大的民族也是衰弱的。在這個意義上,《今天》又回到它最初的起點:它反抗的絕不僅僅是專制,而是

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《信報》要我寫聖誕及新年願望。但我Daisy從來不許什麼願望,今次如果硬要我因為交稿而許個願,fine,我希望錢由樹生出來,從天掉下來。這就是我的願望。所謂「許願」,本身就是這麼不切實際的一回事。

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How to help programmers (part 1): the os.listdir() problem

How to help (Unix) programmers: silently omit data under certaincircumstances. From the Python 3000 release notes :

Note that when os.listdir() returns a list of strings, filenamesthat cannot be decoded properly are omitted rather than raising UnicodeError .

(Background: in Python 3k, os.listdir() is normally called with adirectory name that is a str Unicode object.)

Yes, os.listdir() had problems , butthis is not a solution; this is making