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Jailbreak

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iOS jailbreaking is the process of removing the limitations imposed by Apple on devices running the iOS operating system through the use of hardware/software exploits – such devices include the iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, and second generation Apple TV. Jailbreaking allows iOS users to gain root access to the operating system, allowing them to download additional applications, extensions, and themes that are unavailable through the official Apple App Store.

— Wikipedia on iOS jailbreaking

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Jailbreak your life.

— Me@2011.12.10

2012.10.20 Saturday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

The One

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The difficulty is that the probability is so low. The easiness is that the pool is so large, and you only have to find one.

— Me@2011.11.17

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2012.10.07 Sunday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

How Not to Die

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If you look at a list of US cities sorted by population, the number of successful startups per capita varies by orders of magnitude. Somehow it’s as if most places were sprayed with startupicide.

I wondered about this for years. I could see the average town was like a roach motel for startup ambitions: smart, ambitious people went in, but no startups came out. But I was never able to figure out exactly what happened inside the motel — exactly what was killing all the potential startups.

A couple weeks ago I finally figured it out. I was framing the question wrong. The problem is not that most towns kill startups. It’s that death is the default for startups, and most towns don’t save them. Instead of thinking of most places as being sprayed with startupicide, it’s more accurate to think of startups as all being poisoned, and a few places being sprayed with the antidote.

Startups in other places are just doing what startups naturally do: fail. The real question is, what’s saving startups in places like Silicon Valley?

— Why Startup Hubs Work

— October 2011

— Paul Graham

2012.08.22 Wednesday ACHK

地獄篇（前傳）

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失敗是正常，成功是例外。

人生，是一個尋找例外的過程。

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地獄是正常，天堂是例外。

人生，是一個創造例外的經歷。

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唯有經過地獄的磨難，才有創造天堂的力量。 — 尼采

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— Me@2012.03.01

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2012.03.01 Thursday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

種子論起點 11.0.2

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這段改編自 2010 年 3 月 20 日的對話。

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我們暫時叫它做「種子論」吧！

大概而言，你需要不斷散播種子，但又不知道哪些會發芽。你幾乎完全不能控制，哪些種子會長大成樹、開花結果。但你又不能不播種，因為沒有「種子」，就一定不會有「結果」。你所能做到的，就只是勤奮地，盡量提高「種子發芽、長大成樹 和 開花結果」的機會率。

時間上，你要不間斷地播種。空間上，你要在很多領域播種。策略上，因為人生的時間和空間，都十分有限，散播種子要有，先後緩急之分。相對於你自己來說，「種子結成果」機會越高的時空，就是越適合你的「田地」和「季節」。你就應該散播得越多「機遇種子」。

同時，你要從一開始就知道，絕大部分種子會，無疾而終。可能每一百萬粒種子之中，只有一粒有結果。然後每一百萬個果實之中，只有一個是美味的。

但是，即使你失敗了一千億次，只要有一次成功，你就永遠改變了歷史。

— Me@2010.03.21

— Me@2010.09.26

— Me@2012.02.20

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2012.02.22 Wednesday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

種子論起點 11.0.1

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這段改編自 2010 年 3 月 20 日的對話。

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剛才我講的那個理論，我們應該為它，起一個名字，以防日後討論問題時，需要用到它。

其實，根據剛才的討論內容，這個理論本來，可以叫作「種子靈感天線搞 gag 間書太極謀事在人成事在天可遇不可求有心栽花花不香無心插柳柳成蔭踏破鐵鞋無覓處得來全不費功夫原理」。

但是，這個名字實在太長，不適宜日常的運用。如果不是那麼長，又很難可以完全準確地，捕捉到它的神髓。這就是困難所在。

（安：根據你這個理論本身，如果你刻意地，硬要立刻想出，一個好的名字，你反而不能如願。）

— Me@2010.03.21

— Me@2010.09.26

— Me@2012.02.20

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2012.02.20 Monday (c) All rights reserved by ACHK

Life hacking 4

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The term life hack refers to productivity tricks that computer programmers devise and employ to cut through information overload and organize their data. In more recent times, the same phrase has expanded to any sort of trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to increase productivity and efficiency, in all walks of life; in other words, anything that solves an everyday problem in a clever or non-obvious way might be called a life hack.

The original definition of the term hack is an inelegant but effective solution to a specific computing problem.

— Wikipedia on Life hack

2012.02.16 Thursday ACHK

Not average

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Those in the print media who dismiss the writing online because of its low average quality are missing an important point: no one reads the average blog. In the old world of channels, it meant something to talk about average quality, because that’s what you were getting whether you liked it or not. But now you can read any writer you want. So the average quality of writing online isn’t what the print media are competing against. They’re competing against the best writing online. And, like Microsoft, they’re losing.

— What Business Can Learn from Open Source

— Paul Graham

2012.02.12 Sunday ACHK