Sunday, March 20, 2011

The Windows Shell Common Dll is still dumb in Windows 7.

Two tidbits about garbage

  • The prevalent automatic garbage collection was invented as a solution in Lisp.
  • (Data) Garbage in, garbage out.

TIER (try, import, except, raise)

A lovely snippet of code pattern:

try:
    import service
    except Error:
        raise

In web apps, every step or user choice is a solution.

In excellent articles or texts, every sentence is an instance of mind stretching, informing, questioning, or problem solving.

針對新的需求特徵來進行公司內部的流程改造。

On the top of the heads of some well groomed men, grizzled hair shines elegance.

Maybe only the rich countries can breed excellent user experience designs, which can accommodate the changing usage needs of individual consumers, on a wide scale.

There are a lot of bimbos in this world. But the world needs them, definitely.

English proficiency is a definite competitive edge for people in the software and web development industry.

I tend to put a premium on accuracy.

A sib is not necessarily a very good friend. But a sib is a sib.

In reality, now who places much care on the hallowed grounds and spots of the indigenous peoples in Canada?

On the other hand, Jerusalem, the holy city of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, has always been in the spotlight on the world stage.

Think about that.

It seems that the Kobo ebook reader, made by a Canadian biz which is a local giant, is not up to par yet, in terms of sophistication.

How far will it be able to go, in the presence of the Amazon Kindle ebook reader, which is made by the, well, almighty Amazon.com ?

See the customer reviews of Kobo at http://goo.gl/6EbVM .

Now there's a term "APU", which means "Accelerated Processing Unit". An APU integrates a CPU and a GPU.