startup, have you considered it?

"So who should start a startup? Someone who is a good hacker, between
about 23 and 38, and who wants to solve the money problem in one
shot instead of getting paid gradually over a conventional working
life.

I can’t say precisely what a good hacker is. At a first rate
university this might include the top half of computer science
majors. Though of course you don’t have to be a CS major to be a
hacker; I was a philosophy major in college.

It’s hard to tell whether you’re a good hacker, especially when
you’re young. Fortunately the process of starting startups tends
to select them automatically. What drives people to start startups
is (or should be) looking at existing technology and thinking, don’t
these guys realize they should be doing x, y, and z? And that’s
also a sign that one is a good hacker."

I really like the text excerpted from the big (or god father ) Paul Graham’s How to Start a Startup? , though I haven’t read the whole article yet.

交警手势信号

教材上的有些诡异，还是看公安部官方网站公布的的图示靠谱。

merging m$.word docs sucks…

merging m$.word docs sucks… i’m gonna go crazy

formal docs should be latexized.

access deny when downloading virtualbox

update: since i can download all the following stuff at home, it seems that nwpu is blocked by some u.s. sites. interesting

i got the following page when i was trying to download virtualbox from its official site. also, i don’t know why i can download j2se from its official sites either. it’s quite frustrating.

oh man, shitty gov or oracle. i don’t know, i cannot know.

any hints would be appreciated

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Access Denied

You don’t have permission to access
"http://dlc.sun.com.edgesuite.net/virtualbox/3.2.6/virtualbox-3.2_3.2.6-63112%7eUbuntu%7elucid_i386.deb"
on this server.

Reference #18.7ca387d.1278637992.3c5662a

发送google wave邀请

突然发现google给了18个wave邀请，有google粉丝，gmail重度用户或者想尝鲜的都可以来报名。留下邮箱地址或者给我gmail发邮件。

ps: 我的gmail（or基本上任何网络产品）前缀是alexmajy

update:这个是wave的youtube介绍。

转一贴《美国的钉子户老太太》

昨天刚看了《up》，感觉很不错。今天有看到一则新闻关于美国的钉子户老太，一下让我想起了起昨天的动画片，以及前一阵子看到的上海一户人家被强拆的报道。

新闻乱炖

好消息，Google宣布将加速Gmail邮箱容量的增长速度。虽然我还没有用完2G，但是我还是很高兴听到这个消息。此外，Google的Finance已经支持中国股票信息的实时更新。另外，Sun加入了OSGi，这个比较让人意外，不知道以后Java的API会不会受到影响。flickr解禁了？

哀悼Fortran发明人John W. Backus

据Slashdot报道Fortran的发明人John W. Backus去世了，享年８２岁。十九世纪五十年代，他在ＩＢＭ组建了Ｆｏｒｔｒａｎ的开发团队。Ｆｏｒｔｒａｎ是一个被广泛使用的高级语言。Backus由于在程序语言设计与实现领域所做出的巨大贡献，获得了1977年ACM颁发的图灵奖。大师有一段话很经典：

“You need the willingness to fail all the time．　You have to generate many ideas and then you have to work very hard only to discover that they don’t work. And you keep doing that over and over until you find one that does work.＂

—– John W. Backus

PS:另外，这里有Backus的一些生平，很有意思：）