My daily readings 06/29/2008

By wind333
  • tags: design, simplicity

  • tags: success, book

    • OUTLIERS is a book about success. It starts with a very simple question: what is the difference between those who do something special with their lives and everyone else? In OUTLIERS, we’re going to visit a genius who lives on a horse farm in Northern Missouri. We’re going to examine the bizarre histories of professional hockey and soccer players, and look into the peculiar childhood of Bill Gates, and spend time in a Chinese rice paddy, and investigate the world’s greatest law firm, and wonder about what distinguishes pilots who crash planes from those who don’t. And in examining the lives of the remarkable among us–the brilliant, the exceptional and the unusual–I want to convince you that the way we think about success is all wrong.
  • tags: algorithms, GC

    • The idea is based on the Mark-Copy (MC) algorithm. The heap is divided up into a number of equally sized windows, say 40. One of these is the nursery, and the others act as tenured space. (I don’t know why, but the papers about this seem to use a two-generation rather than three-generation model. I think it could easily be updated to use three generations, but I’ll stick with this for now.) Each window has a logical number, with the nursery having the highest number.
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    • Now that you’ve got Firefox, find out all the ways to personalize it to fit exactly how you use the Web.
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    • Power tools to substantially enhance your experience
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  • tags: mozilla

    • ands of dedicated volunteers around the world with our small staff of employees to coordinate the creation of products like the Firefox web browser. This process is organized by the Mozilla C
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    • 电脑,过去上街跑单的业务员都改在电脑前洽商业务,办公模式、业务流程还有公司形

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