Quote of the day – "Before you criticise someone, walk a mile in his shoes. Then when you do criticise that person, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes."
– Jack Haydey
Quote of the day – "Before you criticise someone, walk a mile in his shoes….
June 23rd, 2012 by Terrence Miao No comments »Meet Sequoia, the most powerful computer in planet Earth
June 21st, 2012 by Terrence Miao No comments »The BBC reports that Sequoia is capable of calculating, in one hour, 'what otherwise would take 6.7 billion people using hand calculators 320 years.' It is used for nuclear studies
The Special K, No 2 computer made in Fujitsu Japan.
Quote of the day – Facebook is doing exactly the same thing as tobacco companies…
June 19th, 2012 by Terrence Miao 2 comments »Quote of the day – Facebook is doing exactly the same thing as tobacco companies did to our children – seeking to get kids hooked as early as possible, although there is no hard evidence link Facebook to the deadly cancer so far.
Git and IntelliJ for impatient and not-very-happy developers
June 19th, 2012 by Terrence Miao 2 comments »If you want to be a good developer, you should try IntelliJ and switch to Git.
Having played with Spring Tools Suite, an Eclipse based IDE for more than six weeks. How do I feel? I hate it. Buggy and inconsistent. Unexpected behaviour should easily waste a few hours to figure out and workaround. Eclipse is no better. A fat blow-ware, confliction between different plugins …
IntelliJ has a lot goodies, bit by bit, piece by piece. Saving a few keystroke are not big deal to carry one task, but to do it thousand times, even one keystroke less can save your life.
+Dean Budd Deano has barracked for IntelliJ long time ago. You have to really try it by yourself, feel it by yourself, understand it by yourself, then convince you how good it is. IntelliJ will become my major development platform for JEE and Grails project.
Git, how many time I have to remind you how quick and lighting fast it is?
Setting up a new Git repository on my MacBook Pro tonight, 15MB big source codes initialised, pulled, pushed out and into repository. Everything just bang, bang, bang. Even Perforce never impress me so much.
95% time you only need run git on command line. The other 5% time I switch to SmartGit on Mac is to have a look graphic branch history.
Don’t be a loser. Good tools help and accelerate your work, and leave a smile on your face after job done …
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Pointless research
June 17th, 2012 by Terrence Miao 4 comments »Sponsored by the hard earned thirst Victoria Bitter.
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Beer Makes Men Smarter
Beer makes men smarter. Researchers at University of Illinois found that men who had 2 pints were actually better at solving brain-teasers.
When Flinders Street in Melbourne had cable trams: http://tdu.to/a31227/Flinder…
June 17th, 2012 by Terrence Miao 1 comment »Reshared post from +Michael Poloni
When Flinders Street in Melbourne had cable trams: http://tdu.to/a31227/FlindersSt.jpg
What's happening when Windows 8 runs on a retina 2880×1800 resolution display…
June 17th, 2012 by Terrence Miao No comments »What's happening when Windows 8 runs on a retina 2880×1800 resolution display MacBook Pro? There are too much blank space in Windows!
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Windows 8 on the Retina Display MacBook Pro
This 24" Samsung monitor with 1920×1200 resolution, 3 USB 3.0 ports and 2 DVI…
June 17th, 2012 by Terrence Miao 1 comment »This 24" Samsung monitor with 1920×1200 resolution, 3 USB 3.0 ports and 2 DVI ports, Display port (connect to Mac), Pivot Swivel stand selling for only $259.00 in CPL right now. Next shop in the price comparison ladder is asking for $385.00.
+Dean Budd Deano what is your opinion? This is not a quick monitor (5ms Gray to Gray) for games, but for office and coding, is it OK?
End of financial year. This is one thing you can make tax deduction.
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24" Samsung S24A850DWK 1920*1200 5ms 3XUSB3.0 2DVI Pivot Sw
Innovative new Samsung screen technology results in more accurate color and better viewing angles. Samsung LED PLS technology delivers 100% sRGB critically accurate color, for beautifully rendered ima…
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