Archive for September, 2004

Agressive and Passive

Wednesday, September 29th, 2004

I am a subscriber of PC Magazine and Dr. Dobb’s Journal. Recently my DDJ is expired but I have no idea about that. They should put something special on the cover of the last issue so that the customer will know. That’s passive.
My PC Magazine subscription is going to expire this November. Ironically, they sent [...]

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Proof of “It’s hard to pursuade a PhD”

Monday, September 27th, 2004

Axiom 1) PhD degree is hard to getAxiom 2) If you can pursuade 5 PhD, you will have your PhD degreeAxiom 2a) In Axiom 2, the 5 PhD’s are supposed to be IID
Suppose it’s easy to pursuade a PhD, then it’s easy to pursuade 5 IID PhD, which is a contradiction to Axiom 1.
As a [...]

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Good free counters are hard to find

Thursday, September 23rd, 2004

In the good old days, I was using the free counters provided by NSYSU.edu.tw. They’ve limited the use of their counter to .edu.tw domains, thus I have to find another free counter for my blogs. By asking Google I got a bunch of links, but they are not helpful. Most links brought you to their [...]

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Brief review of the book “User Interface Design for Programmers”

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2004

Joel Spolsky’s book User Interface Design for Programmers is fun to read. Kinda expensive though I don’t know why he opted to go full color because most stuff inside can be printed in nice and affordable B&W.
Summary of this book: (well, IMHO)

Users don’t read manual, nor dialogs.
Users can’t use mouse.
Users ain’t stupid, it’s just [...]

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