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Socrates’ Fundamental Principles from Plato’s Crito

dryice — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 02:13:00 +0000

P1: We must always act on the basis of good reasons and good
reasoning, not out of fear, mere self-interest, etc.
- P1(a): We value the opininons of those who know, not the
  many(hoipolloi).
- P1(b): The principles on which we rely must stand the tests of
  time and change of circumstances, and the conclusions we draw from
  them must be ones to which we can be constantly faithful.
P2: It is not enough to live; we must live well, i.e. nobly and
justly.
P3: We must never do wrong willingly, even in requital.
P4: We must always keep our aggreements, provided they are jsut.

Top 6 List of Programming Top 10 Lists

dryice — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 07:39:00 +0000

Many people do their own “Top 10 list”. This is one of the best I’ve ever see. The original post is at Coding Horror and there’s alot of links there. Plus, The comment is good to read too

Jerry Weinberg: The 10 Commandments of Egoless Programming

Understand and accept that you will make mistakes.
You are not your code.
No matter how much “karate” you know, someone else will always know more.
Don’t rewrite code without consultation.
Treat people who know less than you with respect, deference, and patience.
The only constant in the world is change.
The only true authority stems from knowledge, not from position.
Fight for what you believe, but gracefully accept defeat.
Don’t be “the guy in the room.” 10. Critique code instead of people— be kind to the coder, not to the code.

Dare Obasanjo: Top 10 Signs Your Software Project is Doomed

Trying to do too much in the first version.
Taking a major dependency on unproven technology.
Competing with an existing internal project that is either a cash cow or has powerful backers.
The team is understaffed.
“Complex problems require complex solutions”.
Schedule Chicken
Scope Creep
Second System Syndrome
No Entrance Strategy. 10. Tackling a problem you don’t know how to solve.

Omar Shahine: Top 10 Tips for Working at Microsoft (or Anywhere Else)

Process is no substitute for thinking.
Get out of your office.
Use your product (the one your customers will).
Fix things that are broken rather than complain about them being broken. Actions speak better than your complaining.
Make hard problem look easy. Don’t make easy problems look hard.
Use the right communication tool for the job.
Learn to make mistakes.
Keep things simple.
Add value all the time. 10. Use their product.

Michael McDonough: The Top 10 Things They Never Taught Me in Design School

Talent is one-third of the success equation.
95 percent of any creative profession is shit work.
If everything is equally important, then nothing is very important.
Don’t over-think a problem.
Start with what you know; then remove the unknowns.
Don’t forget your goal.
When you throw your weight around, you usually fall off balance.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions; or, no good deed goes unpunished.
It all comes down to output. 10. The rest of the world counts.

Andres Taylor: Top 10 Things Ten Years of Professional Software Development Has Taught Me

Object orientation is much harder than you think.
The difficult part of software development is communication.
Learn to say no.
If everything is equally important, then nothing is important.
Don’t over-think a problem.
Dive really deep into something, but don’t get hung up.
Learn about the other parts of the software development machine.
Your colleagues are your best teachers.
It all comes down to working software. 10. Some people are assholes.

Steve Yegge: 10 Great Books

The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
Design Patterns
Concurrent Programming in Java(TM): Design Principles and Pattern (2nd Edition)
Mastering Regular Expressions, 2nd Edition
The Algorithm Design Manual
The C Programming Language, Second Edition
The Little Schemer
Compilers 10. WikiWikiWeb

And here’s the original-original links, with lots of detail:

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Do it now

dryice — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 03:25:00 +0000

Today I read a good article about time management. I’ve read plentty time management books but this one remind me one thing I’ve forgot: The power of focus.

For Chinese readers, there is a translation here

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There are three kind of problems: direct, indirect, or no control

dryice — Wed, 18 May 2005 00:57:00 +0000

No matter which one we got, we have the first step to the solution: Changing our habits for direct problem, changing our methods of influence for indirect problem, and changing the way we see the problems that we have no control.

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P/PC balance

dryice — Wed, 11 May 2005 01:58:00 +0000

You can’t focus on Production or Production Capability only. I must balance between the two.

AM I focus too much on PC?

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Something from the Captitalism II game

dryice — Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:00:00 +0000

You can’t monopolize an industry unless you are fully ready. Someone can always find some way to break it.

Interdependent is important than independent.

If you want to monopolize an industry, you only need to monopolize the key point of the industry, not everything related to the industry.

Getting money from bank is better than from the stock market. Is this in game only?

Employee training is important.

When you have little money, you do easy things like buy in and sell out to make living. When you have more money, you focus on one industry to get more money. When you have lots of money, you investigate on several industries to make lots of money

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rich dad, poor dad

dryice — Wed, 22 Dec 2004 16:00:00 +0000

Wether you are rich or poor does not depend on who much you own. Have some thing doesn’t mean you are poor or you are rich. Wether that thing cost you money or can bring you money matters. The thing that can bring you money is assets, the thing cost your money is indebted.

The poor man may have a high-paying job, but they spend most their income on indebted, like buy own used cars, clothes. All their income get paied out.

The rich man doesn’t need a job, their assets can bring them money, and they use these money to get more assets.

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the successful mans are similar

dryice — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 16:00:00 +0000

says “never say ‘I can’t afford this’, say ‘how can I affort this?’” This is the same as Anthony Robbins “ask a better question”.

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positive thinking is not enough

dryice — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 16:00:00 +0000

And not the first thing. Think about the “glasses” example in the 7 habbits video. Befor you think positive, you need to make sure it suit your needs. And how to you know if it fits you? You must know what do you want first.

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The 7 Habits vs Time of Your life

dryice — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 16:00:00 +0000

7 Habits focus on what to do and why to do

Time of your life focus on what to do and how to do

So it’s reasonable that “Time of your life” caught my eyes first

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