Category Archives: amaths-wars

Simple 3

Posted on by

.

Although complex solutions are often admired, it is the simple solutions that get rewarded.

—

People admire complex solutions but reward simple ones.

—

.

— Me@2010.12.27

.

.

.

2010.12.27 Monday ACHK

Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

Posted on by

.

John Gray appeared on Season 2, Episode 3 of Penn & Teller’s Bullshit!, during which Penn quipped “I guess the title ‘We’re all people and should be treated with love and respect’ just wouldn’t fit on the book spine”.

In Futurama, “It is true what they say: Women are from Omicron Persei 7, men are from Omicron Persei 9.” In one episode Amy is also seen reading a book titled “Martians are from Mars, Venusians are from Venus.”

— Wikipedia

.

.

.

2010.12.26 Sunday ACHK

Personal finance advice

Posted on by

.

If I could only share one piece of personal finance advice to grads or to just about anyone, it would be this:

Only borrow money to pay for things that increase in value.

It’s a short list: your business, your house and your education, mostly.

— Seth Godin

.

.

.

2010.12.21 Tuesday ACHK

Hacker 5

Posted on by

.

The key to being a good hacker may be to work on what you like. When I think about the great hackers I know, one thing they have in common is the extreme difficulty of making them work on anything they don’t want to. I don’t know if this is cause or effect; it may be both.

To do something well you have to love it. So to the extent you can preserve hacking as something you love, you’re likely to do it well. Try to keep the sense of wonder you had about programming at age 14. If you’re worried that your current job is rotting your brain, it probably is.

— Paul Graham

.

.

Hacker here means a highly skilled programmer, not a computer criminal. — Me

.

.

.

2010.12.17 Friday ACHK

The Sims

Posted on by

The Sims:

In addition, the game includes a very advanced architecture system. The game was originally designed as an architecture simulation alone, with the Sims there only to evaluate the houses, but during development it was decided that the Sims were more interesting than originally anticipated and their initially limited role in the game was developed further.

Flickr:

Flickr was developed by Ludicorp, a Vancouver-based company that launched Flickr in February 2004. The service emerged out of tools originally created for Ludicorp’s Game Neverending, a web-based massively multiplayer online game. Flickr proved a more feasible project and ultimately Game Neverending was shelved.

Early versions of Flickr focused on a multiuser chat room called FlickrLive with real-time photo exchange capabilities. There was also an emphasis on collecting images found on the web rather than photographs taken by users. The successive evolutions focused more on the uploading and filing backend for individual users and the chat room was buried in the site map. It was eventually dropped as Flickr’s backend systems evolved away from the Game Neverending’s codebase.

— Wikipedia

— Me@2010.01.18

.

.

.

2010.12.16 Thursday ACHK

Library of Alexandria

Posted on by

.

The first known library of its kind to gather a serious collection of books from beyond its country’s borders, the Library at Alexandria was charged with collecting all the world’s knowledge. It did so through an aggressive and well-funded royal mandate involving trips to the book fairs of Rhodes and Athens and a (potentially apocryphal or exaggerated) policy of pulling the books off every ship that came into port. They kept the original texts and made copies to send back to their owners.

— Wikipedia on Library of Alexandria

.

.

.

2010.12.12 Sunday ACHK

Alternatives to Wikipedia

Posted on by

.

More open alternatives to Wikipedia.

Deletionists rule Wikipedia. Ironically, they’re constrained by print-era thinking. What harm does it do if an online reference has a long tail of articles that are only interesting to a few people, so long as everyone can still find whatever they’re looking for? There is room to do to Wikipedia what Wikipedia did to Britannica.

— Startup Ideas We’d Like to Fund

— Paul Graham, July 2008

.

.

.

2010.12.11 Saturday ACHK

蒙田

Posted on by

.

* 愛默生在日記中提到《嘗試集》：「剖開這些字，會有血流出來；那是有血管的活體。」 (Cut these words, and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive.)

* 尼采談到蒙田：「世人對生活的熱情，由於這樣一個人的寫作而大大提高了。」

— 維基百科

.

.

.

2010.12.05 Sunday ACHK