How to Recognize When to Go Home

Most programmers are good programmers, and good programmers want to get a lot done. To do that, they have to manage their time effectively. There is a certain amount of mental inertia associated with getting warmed-up to a problem and deeply involved in it. Many programmers find they work best when they have long, uninterrupted blocks of time in which to get warmed-up and concentrate. However, people must sleep and perform other duties. Each person needs to find a way to satisfy both their human rhythm and their work rhythm. Each programmer needs to do whatever it takes to procure efficient work periods, such as reserving certain days in which you will attend only the most critical meetings.

Since I have children, I try to spend evenings with them sometimes. The rhythm that works best for me is to work a very long day, sleep in the office or near the office (I have a long commute from home to work) then go home early enough the next day to spend time with my children before they go to bed. I am not comfortable with this, but it is the best compromise I have been able to work out. Go home if you have a contagious disease. You should go home if you are thinking suicidal thoughts. You should take a break or go home if you think homicidal thoughts for more than a few seconds. You should send someone home if they show serious mental malfunctioning or signs of mental illness beyond mild depression. If you are tempted to be dishonest or deceptive in a way that you normally are not due to fatigue, you should take a break. Don’t use cocaine or amphetamines to combat fatigue. Don’t abuse caffeine.

中肯文 from http://samizdat.mines.edu/howto/HowToBeAProgrammer.html

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看了科學人 雲端上的開放源碼 才知道,pingyeh 葉平 是google 台灣雲端計劃的主持人 http://pingyeh.blogspot.com (汗)

計算未來(原文 The Machine that Would Predict the Furture 可以看得到可能是因為在中研院,另外一個免費的) 裡提到,隨著可取得的資訊量因為工具的發展大量激增,赫爾畢(Dirk Helbing)希望能夠利用巨量資料並透過複雜社會模型(活地球模型),來計算出未來,並已取得10億美元的計劃。溫伯格提出了幾個問題:1.社會科學並沒有現存精準的預測模型 2.短期資料只能做短期預測,長期資料只能做長期預測 3.人們並不一定理解算出來結果的意義。

其實我要講的是,我也希望可以用地震、氣象、海洋資料等,建一個活地球模型 @@

金融風暴背後的公式
即使有2008年經濟崩盤的教訓,華爾街還是把我們的未來賭在不周延的科學上。

以基督為一切來經歷基督

保羅那時候在大馬色,基督就像大光一樣照耀到他裡面。我們可以對祂說『神啊,你在我的人生中,遇到了我。』『主啊,為著前面的路程,我完全轉向你。』聯於祂最簡單的路就是一直把開關打開,向著他。

不只口裡呼求這個人位,心裡還要接觸這個人位。這個人位,有人活得很微弱,有的人很強烈。經歷中,我們不願意怎樣就不怎樣,照著我們的天然來生活。主耶穌是有感力的,但他的喜好好像跟你不同,這樣裡面就有兩個想法,兩個意志。主想要活出來,你卻不願意。就像打內戰一樣,主被打敗癟氣了,但你也軟弱了。祂活,我就不能活;我活,祂就活不了。作基督徒到這個地步,就感覺這條路很難走,又不能不走。在場的每個人一定都有這一段經歷。
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