Category Archives: amaths-wars

天使與傻瓜

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If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.

* Self-Sacrifice

— George Bernard Shaw

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天使, 犧牲自己的利益來追求自己的理想.

魔鬼, 犧牲別人的利益來追求自己的理想.

傻瓜, 犧牲自己的理想來追求別人的利益.

智者, 透過實現自己的理想來追求別人的利益.

— Me@2009.09.14, 2010.03.11

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2010.03.11 Thursday copyright ACHK

Publish! 2

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Anything you do not publish,

will disappear with with you.

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Anything you do not publish,

will disappear in this world after your life.

— Me@2010.03.08

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2010.03.10 Wednesday copyright ACHK

天空堤壩

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Talent at its best and character at its worst

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Lord Acton said we should judge talent at its best and character at its worst. For example, if you write one great book and ten bad ones, you still count as a great writer — or at least, a better writer than someone who wrote eleven that were merely good. Whereas if you’re a quiet, law-abiding citizen most of the time but occasionally cut someone up and bury them in your backyard, you’re a bad guy.

— Paul Graham

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才能方面，如果一個人的最高點是可以接受的話，你就可以錄用他，即使他有其他任何才能缺點；

品德方面，如果一個人的最低點是不可接受的話，你就千萬不要錄用他，即使他有其他任何品德優點。

— KinOn’s presentation, modified by Me@2010.03.06

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才能方面，一個太陽可以照亮整個天空；

品德方面，一條裂縫可以摧毀整個堤壩。

— Translation by Me@2010.03.06

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2010.03.07 Sunday copyright ACHK

Hacker ethic

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* Access to computers — and anything which might teach you something about the way the world works — should be unlimited and total. Always yield to the Hands-On Imperative!

* All information should be free.

* Mistrust authority — promote decentralization.

* Hackers should be judged by their hacking, not criteria such as degrees, age, race, sex, or position.

* You can create art and beauty on a computer.

* Computers can change your life for the better.

… free and open source software allows hackers to access the code used to create the software to improve or reuse it. In effect the free and open source software movements embody all of the hacker ethics.

— Wikipedia on Hacker ethic

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

The basic difference is this: hackers build things, crackers break them. — Eric S. Raymond

“In academia, a “hacker” is a person who follows a spirit of playful cleverness and enjoys programming.”

– Wikipedia on Hacker (academia)

2010.03.05 Friday  ACHK

Hacker 3

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The Jargon File has had a special role in acculturating hackers since its origins in the early 1970s. Many textbooks and some literary works shaped the academic hacker subculture; among the most influential are:

* Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, by Steven Levy
* Godel, Escher, Bach, by Douglas Hofstadter
* The Art of Computer Programming (TAOCP), by Donald Knuth
* The Mythical Man-Month, by Brooks
* Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (“the Dragon Book”), by Aho, Sethi, and Ullman
* Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP), by Abelson and Sussman
* The C Programming Language (K&R), by Kernighan and Ritchie
* The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
* The Tao of Programming, by Geoffrey James
* The Illuminatus! Trilogy, by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
* Principia Discordia, by Greg Hill and Kerry Thornley
* The Soul of a New Machine, by Tracy Kidder
* The Cuckoo’s Egg, by Cliff Stoll
* The Unix System, by Stephen R. Bourne
* Hackers & Painters, by Paul Graham
* The Cathedral and the Bazaar, by Eric S. Raymond
* The essays of Richard M. Stallman (many published in Free Software, Free Society: Select Essays of Richard M. Stallman)

— Wikipedia on Hacker (programmer subculture)

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[10] “Hacker” here means a highly skilled programmer, not a computer criminal. — Me

The basic difference is this: hackers build things, crackers break them. — Eric S. Raymond

In academia, a “hacker” is a person who follows a spirit of playful cleverness and enjoys programming.

— Wikipedia on Hacker (academia)

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2010.03.04 Thursday ACHK

Hacker 2

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* Creating software and sharing it with each other
* Placing a high value on freedom of inquiry; hostility to secrecy
* Information-sharing as both an ideal and a practical strategy
* Upholding the right to fork
* Emphasis on rationality
* Distaste for authority
* Playful cleverness, taking the serious humorously and their humor seriously

The difference between hackers and crackers, according to them, is that where hackers use their skills and knowledge to learn more about how systems and networks work, crackers will use the same skills to author harmful software (like viruses, trojans, etc.) and illegally infiltrate secure systems with the intention of doing harm to the system.

「hacker」們建設，而「cracker」們破壞。

真實的黑客所指主要指的是高級程式員，… 而不是為人所誤解專指對電腦系統及程式進行惡意攻擊及破壞的人。

— Wikipedia on Hacker (programmer subculture)

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2010.03.03 Wednesday ACHK

X-Files 2

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Creative people are often considered eccentric.
Everyone is creative and eccentric.
We are all unique.
But the vast majority are afraid to let it out.
It’s more accurate to describe so-called creative,
eccentric people as simply less inhibited.

— John T Reed

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2010.02.27 Saturday ACHK

Design and Research

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The difference between design and research seems to be a question of new versus good. Design doesn’t have to be new, but it has to be good. Research doesn’t have to be good, but it has to be new. I think these two paths converge at the top: the best design surpasses its predecessors by using new ideas, and the best research solves problems that are not only new, but actually worth solving. So ultimately we’re aiming for the same destination, just approaching it from different directions.

— Paul Graham

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2010.02.25 Thursday ACHK

Zero cost

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First, the Internet lets anyone find you at almost zero cost. Second, it dramatically speeds up the rate at which reputation spreads by word of mouth. Together these mean that in many fields the rule will be: Build it, and they will come. Make something great and put it online. That is a big change from the recipe for winning in the past century.

— Paul Graham

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2010.02.23 Tuesday ACHK