if-then-else

The ubiquitous if-then-else structure, now taken for granted as an essential element of any programming language, was invented by McCarthy for use in Lisp, where it saw its first appearance in a more general form (the cond structure). It was inherited by Algol, which popularized it.

— Wikipedia on Lisp (programming language)

2011.01.08 Saturday ACHK

When I Say No, I Feel Guilty

by Manuel J. Smith

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Habit 4: Think Win-Win or No-Deal

— The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

— Stephen R. Covey

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Being assertive is to be firm in protecting one’s own rights, but without violating those of others.

— Me@2011.01.08

— Me@2022-10-18

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Be water

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* Don’t get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

o Bruce Lee: A Warrior’s Journey (2000); here, Lee was reciting lines he wrote for his short lived role on the TV series Longstreet.

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2011.01.08 Saturday ACHK

驗算校對 1.3

這段改篇自 2010 年 4 月 23 日的對話。

要留意,「每題立刻驗算」並不如想像中那麼花時間。一題數要運算三分鐘,不代表要驗算三分鐘。例如,解一題方程用了三分鐘,才得到答案。驗算時,你只需把你計到的答案,代落原本方程的左手邊,看看數值是否和右手邊的相等。這個過程,一定會在三十秒以內。

另外,「每題立刻驗算」還會為你帶來心理上的優勢。每題立刻驗算的話,每題驗算之後,你就不需要再理會它。那樣,你的心理就少了一個負擔。你就可以全心去投入思考下一題。不每題立刻驗算的話,考試中途無論做了多少題目,你也不知道自己可以拿到多少分。那樣,你會很不安。而「不安」的心理會影響你的思考清晰程度,從而減低你想通往後題目的機會,構成實質的分數損失。

— Me@2011.01.08

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