For someone without previous Lisp experience, the hardest part of learning Clojure programming seems to be the functional way of doing things. It is like math, one really needs to do some exercises in order to master it. At this point, 4clojure.com seems to be the best place for …
more ...I recently started to learn clojure programming. It is an interesting experience. Ever since I learned computer programming almost 20 years ago, in Pascal, on a VAX minicomputer terminal, I have not experienced this newbie sensation with a computer language. The sense of excitement and novelty is high, and the …
more ...Yunyao and I work in a research center of a major technology company. At this time of a year, we attend job talks every week. These talks are technical presentations given by candidates for our research or development positions, as part of their two day job interviews here. Not surprisingly …
more ...I have kept my Thinkpad X61 laptop up to date with Debian sid for a few years. The KDE4 in Debian sid is at version 4.4.5 at this moment, and I think it is mature enough for me to switch the laptop power management from my own hacked …
more ...I hate xml configuation files. They look awful. As a result, they can be very time-consuming to write, and are very error-prone. There's no type-safty checking whatsoever. I would rather keep configurations within my Java source code. After all, we programmers are the only people looking at these configurations, why …
more ...This is the first time we have even been to a cat show. We have enjoyed it a lot!
The show cats are all very tidy and cute. Too bad that spectaculors like me cannot touch or pet any of them. :(
But I still love my kitties adopted from shelter …
more ...I have been waiting to try the Tofurkey for a few weeks ever since I saw the ad from Trader Joe about it. So I finally tried out on Thanksgiving.
This is what Tofurkey looks like out of the box. Then I cooked it in the oven. It tastes better …
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Finally, after our trip to China this year, we got our wedding gifts from Huahai's parents --- a special Olympic umbrella. 😛
more ...Long long time ago, there's a prince named Thomas. He's a handsome boy, but often sad, because he's parents passed away when he's very young.
很久很久以前，有一个年轻英俊的王子叫作唐唐。他名如其人 …
more ...偶家的娇娇爱唱歌
more ...Dear CEO of XXX News:
I am writing in regard to an automatic news article writer (NAW) that can ** **save your company millions of dolloar per year (see appendix below for peudo code). The basic idea of NAW is to be able to automatically generate news articles with comparable quality …
more ...I am tracking Debian sid on my Thinkpad laptop, a few months ago it started to use pm-utils and broke suspending to RAM (sleep) functionality. Basically, the machine would go to sleep then immediately resume.
It turned out that this problem can be easily fixed by creating a file /etc …
BBC is broadcasting a documentary series titled "A year in Tibet". From the program description on BBC Web site, this documentary shows the real life today in Tibet. The first segment was shown on Mar. 6. Not surprisingly, there is a Youtube video of this first show. Surprisingly, if you …
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Huahai has received his birthday gift from Yunyao, a few days early.
What's inside?
Wow, a scenic flight certificate, what a lovely gift! Thank you, babe.
more ...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9z-Aatd0wA
Girls need role models like Hilary Clinton, not fancy dressed Hollywood teenagers stars (not all of them are that bad; but you know what I mean).
more ...Modularized software system design is often a good idea. Maven is the new software build system that is purported to be better than ant. For my new project, I want to create a maven build consisting of multiple modules. To do this, and let Eclipse treats these modules as parts …
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Day1:
12/16/2007
Lunch with Junwen
Boarding at San Diego Port
Drill
First Dinner
Debarkation Celebration
Raffle at many places (of course we did not win any of them)
12/17/2007
Men's golf tournament (27 vs. 25)
Table tennis
Hairy Chest Contest
First Formal …
more ...I am writing a Java program to run psychology experiments. Since this is a generic program that may be configured for running some reaction time (RT) experiments, I am worried about the time resolution of Java. It turns out that I don't need to worry too much, except on Windows …
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