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[youtube &w=640&h=360] It’s interesting to see different kinds of ideas we are subconsciously picking up from movies we watch.

Sometimes you have a few series in your chart and you want to turn off some of them, maybe because they are too big thus skewing the rest of the data. See below for example, the green bar is just too long compared to the other two. We know that mouse-clicking on a legend item can turn series on and off. Here after clicking on the green legend item, we see: ...

Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden There was torture, starvation, betrayals and executions, but to Shin In Geun, Camp 14 – a prison for the political enemies of North Korea – was home. Then one day came the chance to flee… His first memory is an execution. He walked with his mother to a wheat field, where guards had rounded up several thousand prisoners. The boy crawled between legs to the front row, where he saw guards tying a man to a wooden pole. ...

Postgres’ sequence is similar to MySQL’s auto increment IDs. Once in a while, you may get this error: duplicate key value violates unique constraint “your_primary_key” Basically, that means postgres is trying to insert a new record to a table, but fails because there is already a row having the same new ID. But how can that be? You may ask. Chances are that your insert statement doesn’t even have the auto-increment ID! ...

可不是嗎？有時候您贏了面子，但其實您輸了感情；有時候您贏了口舌，但其實您輸了形象；有時候您贏了好處，但其實您輸了友誼，總之，有時候您看似贏了，實際上您卻輸了！ 待人處事固然應該「據理」，但卻不一定要臉紅脖子粗地在那兒「力爭」！ 理直氣「和」的態度絕對比理直氣「壯」更易為人所接受。 這世界上有四種人： 第一種人：沒有立場，不講道理，態度也不好。 第二種人：沒有立場，不講道理，態度卻很好。 第三種人：有自己的原則，也很會講理，但表達方式卻很「衝」。 第四種人：很有立場，很講道理，溝通方式也很溫和。 如果將這四種人各配上一個形容詞，我們可以說： 第一種人，是徹底的「可憐人」，因為他將一無所有。 第二種人，是鄉愿型的「濫好人」，因為他實在缺乏立場。 第三種人，是橫衝直撞的「機器人」，因為他雖然邏輯無礙，卻不懂與人相處的藝術。 第四種，是「最可愛的人」，因為他們就是像天使一般。 在這個世界上，唯有成為「第四種人」，您才會是一個真正的贏家！ 在人際互動間，您會顧此失彼嗎？ 您常「看似贏了，但卻輸了」嗎？ 實在值得您深思咀嚼之。 做人不講理，是一種缺點，做人硬講理，是一個盲點。

Read from http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3389-your-lifes-work > Working people to death to ship any one feature or product is a poor strategy, as it reduces the capacity to ship the next feature or product (burn out, build-up of bad rush practices). It’s far more important to have a system for shipping that improves over the long term than one that heroically manages one monster push. > > Second is Jeff Bezos’ idea: “What’s not going to change over the next 10 years?” If you’re going to stick around for decades, you’re better off making investments in things that’ll pay off for a very long time. It applies both to software and peopleware. ...

[youtube &w=640&h=360] 不知大家為何大驚小怪，陳豪的國語OK喎，蠻親切的哩！

靠腰是台语, 有种嫌人烦或是罗索的意思。 廣東話就是：長氣，長舌，chum，一卵嘴，口水多過茶

I don’t know what happened to Yobo anymore, I keep getting this 503 error from it. Let me introduce this online chinese music site: 酷狗 It got tons of singers and albums. Best of all, registration is optional! Try it out!

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