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My daily readings 12/30/2009
December 30, 2009My daily readings 12/29/2009
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My daily readings 12/28/2009
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My daily readings 12/27/2009
December 27, 2009Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
My daily readings 12/25/2009
December 25, 2009-
Installing Etherpad | Pauleira!
I Love this APP. Supper!
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Okay, now I’m beyond curious and excited. Not only is Steve Jobs, who is notoriously nitpicky with unbelievably high standards, happy with the device, but users will also be surprised by the way they interact with the device? Up until now, everyone had assumed that using an Apple tablet would be very similar to how one uses an iPhone, but Apple may very well have an Ace in the hole that may completely catch everyone off guard. I’ll put it this way – January 26th can’t come fast enough.
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My daily readings 12/24/2009
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My daily readings 12/23/2009
December 23, 2009-
Yahoo! Will Kill MyBlogLog Next Month
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We called co-founder Eric Marcoulier for comment and he offered the following perspective:
“So much of your company’s long term sucess when it’s acquired is based on the amount of executive juice it has. The only way it survives and flourishes is if you have an executive champion who promotes it internally. Shortly after we were acquired we were transfered away from our champion and under someone who didn’t feel the same way about MyBlogLog. In those circumstances, things simply slow down.
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亚马逊CEO：纸质书终消亡 Kindle传承阅读热情_互联网_科技时代_新浪网
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贝佐斯：做好最基本的事情，那就是关注于精益求精，向顾客提供低价、可靠、方便和交运迅速的产品。这是我们从业14年以来不断累积的效果。我总是说，如果我们哪个季度业绩出色，那可能是因为我们在3-5年前所打下的良好基础，而不是因为我们在这个季度有多么努力。
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我们过去很多年一直在销售纸质书籍，而现在Kindle电子书销量已经达到了纸质书销量的48%，这一比例较5月份的35%有了明显增长。电子书业务正在非常迅速的增长，这个业务并不只属于我们。
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贝佐斯：我相信人们需要一个专门的阅读设备。对很多人来说，阅读是他们生活中很重要的一件事。但他们也不想盯着LCD显示屏看上个几个小时。我认为这个领域大有可为。人类总是与工具共同发展。我们发明创新工具，而工具反过来又改变我们的生活，这个过程会不断重复。
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因此，Kindle所做的就是将无线上网的便利性和长篇阅读整合起来。我们认为长篇阅读给我们带来的受益要超过短篇阅读。这两个方面都是很重要的。如果你看到一本好书，那你可能就会忍不住一直看下去，而且这会令你受益匪浅，改变你对人生的看法。而博客帖子是无法作到这点的。
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贝佐斯：我想是的，虽然我不知道这个过程需要多长时间。我们还是喜欢看小说，喜欢迷失在作者的世界中。对书籍的热爱是不会消亡的，而且还会再度盛行。但金属活字印刷术已经有500多年历史了，这可能是最为成功的技术。但没有什么技术会永远存在。
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My daily readings 12/21/2009
December 21, 2009-
BASIC-256 – Programming for Kids
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When anyone asks if their children should learn BASIC, there is always a vocal group that says “NO! It teaches all the wrong things! Learn a modern language like (insert favorite language here).” But this is nonsense.
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What is DRM doing in my garage?
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“If this Security+ garage door opener is operated with a non-rolling code transmitter, the technical measure in the receiver of the garage door opener, which provides security against code-theft devices, will be circumvented,” said the manual. “The owner of the copyright in the garage door opener does not authorize the purchaser or supplier of the non-rolling code transmitter to circumvent that technical measure.”
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My daily readings 12/20/2009
December 20, 2009-
Stealth Startups, Get Over Yourselves: Nobody Cares About Your Secrets
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I have my last final today. This comes as a perfect school-is-over-and-i-can-start-hacking-again gift! I’m hoping to be able to integrate LaTeX export into this so I can collaborate on LaTeX reports without having to download and build manually.
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My daily readings 12/18/2009
December 18, 2009-
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Introduction
The first step towards an understanding of why the study and knowledge of algorithms are so important is to define exactly what we mean by an algorithm. According to the popular algorithms textbook Introduction to Algorithms (Second Edition by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein), “an algorithm is any well-defined computational procedure that takes some value, or set of values, as input and produces some value, or set of values as output.” In other words, algorithms are like road maps for accomplishing a given, well-defined task. So, a chunk of code that calculates the terms of the Fibonacci sequence is an implementation of a particular algorithm. Even a simple function for adding two numbers is an algorithm in a sense, albeit a simple one.- – post by joel
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