My daily readings 03/31/2010

• 关于个人KB的一些更新想法 – 我blog故我在

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  • 目前任何这些工具和方法所最缺乏的：

    1.  不能记录我的对知识或者主题的研究过程和研究结果。 比如我遇到一个问题要解决，借助google, stackoverflow, newsgroup等去解决，这是一个过程，过程中有很多有价值的中间结果，这些中间结果是关联的而且在研究的过程中，其实我对他们进行了评级（可能是隐性的），我找到答案或者得出结论后，有时有一些总结性的成果。 目前的书签工具是零碎收集了所有的link, tag, notes,  这些links在这个过程中的关系（可以归类为一组）全部都丢失了。  Blog和wiki一般相当于结论，当然这些结论中包含了部分链接，但是大部分情况下，这些blog, wiki内的描述因为时间关系只是总结性的，研究过程中有价值但不是最终结论的部分基本都丢失了。

    2. 不能方便地帮助我整理思维过程，比如我在del.icio.us中写了系列的notes, 这些notes是相关的，聚合在一起可能就成了blog/wiki的基本内容，但是这个本来可以自动聚合的相关内容必须要手工整理才能完成。

  • 从stackoverflow上很容易看到，同样的问题被无数人问了一遍又一遍， 同样的问题，不同的人，甚至相同的人研究了一遍又一遍，但是这个研究的过程、中间结果和结论却没有能有效地分享和贡献出来，这就是问题的所在。

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My daily readings 03/25/2010

• Auto Smiley – Computer vision smile generator | F.A.T.

  tags: AR

• Neptune may have eaten a planet and stolen its moon – space – 22 March 2010 – New Scientist

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  • Neptune’s own existence was a puzzle until recently. The dusty cloud that gave birth to the planets probably thinned out further from the sun. With building material so scarce, it is hard to understand how Uranus and Neptune, the two outermost planets, managed to get so big.

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  • By now, most of us have heard the story of how Google got its name. But Google isn’t the only company out there with an odd name. And it certainly isn’t the only name with an interesting story. Here is the list of stories behind the naming of popular tech companies.

• Meet Merton, Chatroulette’s Drive-By Piano Guy | Underwire | Wired.com

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  • “I’m not really comfortable performing onstage in front of a lot of people, and it’s also much harder to have an intimate experience with a lot of people” when playing live, said the on-the-fly ivory-tickler in an exclusive video interview with Mashable (embedded above). “If you’re in front of a crowd, you can’t so much pick one person and take their experience and make it part of the music.”
  • Check out the rest of Mashable’s 15-minute interview with Merton, or watch a scrubbed version of his viral video below. (The original video was pulled from YouTube Monday after being viewed millions of times.)

• When Success Follows the College Rejection Letter – WSJ.com

  tags: Rejections

  • Both Warren Buffett and “Today” show host Meredith Vieira say that while being rejected by the school of their dreams was devastating, it launched them on a path to meeting life-changing mentors. Harold Varmus, winner of the Nobel Prize in medicine, says getting rejected twice by Harvard Medical School, where a dean advised him to enlist in the military, was soon forgotten as he plunged into his studies at Columbia University’s med school. For other college rejects, from Sun Microsystems co-founder Scott McNealy and entrepreneur Ted Turner to broadcast journalist Tom Brokaw, the turndowns were minor footnotes, just ones they still remember and will talk about.
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My daily readings 03/24/2010

• 刘未鹏 | Mind Hacks – 康托尔、哥德尔、图灵——永恒的金色对角线(rev#2)

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  • 灵——永恒的金色对角线(rev#2)

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My daily readings 03/23/2010

• Clustering

  tags: Architecture

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My daily readings 03/22/2010

• Software for English Grammar, Writing, & Translation – Check Grammar & Spelling, Edit and Enhance Your Texts | World-Leading Language Solutions by WhiteSmoke

  tags: writing, software, english, language

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My daily readings 03/19/2010

• Mark’s Blog » Superficially Improving Google Reader

  tags: google, reader, iPad

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My daily readings 03/18/2010

• Dear Mozilla, Please Don’t Kill HTML5 Video! | Brian Crescimanno

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  • I’m a huge supporter of open formats; I always have been. One of the main reasons Microsoft was able to rise to its Monopoly-level dominance was the proliferation of the proprietary MS Office file formats. However, I have reason to believe that Mozilla’s decision not to support H.264 encoded video via the HTML5 video tag due to the “patent encumbrance” of the codec, is a wrong decision and one that, unless they change their mind, will kill any hope of ushering a new era of online video distribution that exists without plugins. Mozilla has always been an organization willing to take a stand for what they believe in; and they believe in the open web.

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My daily readings 03/17/2010

• The GC Team | We built Garmin Connect. We’re for hire.

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  • On February 8, 2010 Garmin decided to shut down operations at its San Francisco office and move all Garmin Connect product management/development back to headquarters in Olathe, Kansas.  For as much as the team in San Francisco loves working on Garmin Connect, most of us – if not all – are choosing not to relocate to Kansas.

• Ksplice » Hello from a libc-free world! (Part 1) – System administration and software

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  • This adventure assumes compilation and execution on a Linux machine. Some familiarity with reading assembly is helpful.

• “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”

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  • I liked to imitate being drunk, so although I was completely sober, I
    turned to the girl I’d been dancing with and asked her in a drunken voice,
    “YaWANanything?”
  • I was therefore quite surprised when, a few moments later, the waiter
    came back to the table with all his fancy stuff — a white towel over his
    arm, a tray full of glasses, an ice bucket full of ice, and a bottle of
    champagne. He thought I meant, “Never mind the price,” when I meant, “Never
    mind the champagne!”

• High Scalability – High Scalability – Justin.tv’s Live Video Broadcasting Architecture

  tags: scalability, Architecture

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My daily readings 03/16/2010

• Top 10 Things That Annoy Programmers | Kevin William Pang

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  • 10. Comments that explain the “how” but not the “why”

    Introductory-level programming courses teach students to comment early and comment often. The idea is that it’s better to have too many comments than to have too few. Unfortunately, many programmers seem to take this as a personal challenge to comment every single line of code. This is why you will often see something like this code snippit taken from Jeff Atwood’s post on Coding Without Comments:

• How to cure your asthma or hayfever using hookworm – a practical guide || kuro5hin.org

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  • I have had severe allergies all of my life. As a child I had hay fever so bad that my eyes would swell shut and mucus would stream from my nose. I would lie in a darkened room with a cold damp flannel over my face to quell the itching, almost inebriate from antihistamines. Spring was pure misery.

    Later I smoked cigarettes for seven years when I w

• TidBITS Opinion: Why Google Wave Needs a Major Overhaul

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  • I really wanted to like Google Wave. But after several months of attempting to use it in a variety of ways, I’ve come to the conclusion that the current incarnation of Google Wave is too fundamentally flawed to be useful. That said, Google has made it very clear that Google Wave is still in preview release, so I hold out hope that Google will radically revamp the service. I think Google is aware of these issues, since a Feedback survey link just appeared in Google Wave itself, and many of the questions seem to acknowledge that users are wildly unhappy.

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My daily readings 03/15/2010

• Intel’s Tick-Tock Model to Continue Rapid Technology Innovation

  1. Control the variable,   reduce risk.
  2. Tick = Big version, Tock: Continue improvement. 

  tags: innovation, management, PM

  • Tick-tock in action

    Year 1: First the “Tick”

    Intel delivers new silicon process technology, dramatically increasing transistor density while enhancing performance and energy efficiency within a smaller, more refined version of our existing microarchitecture.

    Year 2: Then the “Tock”

    Intel delivers entirely new processor microarchitecture to optimize the value of the increased number of transistors and technology updates now available.

• Hacker News | Ask HN: How do you fight procrastination?

  tags: productivity

• InfoQ: How to Design a Good API & Why it Matters

  tags: api, design, architecture

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