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The badness of a movie is directly proportional to the number of helicopters in it. -- Dave Berry, "25 Things I Have Learned in 50 Years" You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe Daylight Saving Time. -- Dave Berry, "25 Things I Have Learned in 50 Years" People who feel the need to tell you that they have an excellent sense of humor are telling you that they have no sense of humor. -- Dave Berry, "25 Things I Have Learned in 50 Years" The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment. -- Dave Berry, "25 Things I Have Learned in 50 Years" You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment. -- Dave Berry, "25 Things I Have Learned in 50 Years" A penny saved is worthless. -- Dave Berry, "25 Things I Have Learned in 50 Years" They can hold all the peace talks they want, but there will never be peace in the Middle East. Billions of years from now, when Earth is hurtling toward the Sun and there is nothing left alive on the planet except a few microorganisms, the microorganisms living in the Middle East will be bitter enemies. -- Dave Berry, "25 Things I Have Learned in 50 Years" The most powerful force in the universe is: gossip. -- Dave Berry, "25 Things I Have Learned in 50 Years" The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status, or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we all believe that we are above-average drivers. -- Dave Berry, "25 Things I Have Learned in 50 Years" There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday. That time is: age 11. -- Dave Berry, "25 Things I Have Learned in 50 Years" There is a very fine line between 'hobby' and 'mental illness.' -- Dave Berry, "25 Things I Have Learned in 50 Years" People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them. -- Dave Berry, "25 Things I Have Learned in 50 Years" Nobody is normal. -- Dave Berry, "25 Things I Have Learned in 50 Years" If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be: meetings. -- Dave Berry, "25 Things I Have Learned in 50 Years" The main accomplishment of almost all organized protests is to annoy people who are not in them. -- Dave Berry, "25 Things I Have Learned in 50 Years" If there really is a God who created the entire universe with all of its glories, and He decides to deliver a message to humanity, He will not use, as His messenger, a person on cable TV with a bad hairstyle. -- Dave Berry, "25 Things I Have Learned in 50 Years" You should not confuse your career with your life. -- Dave Berry, "25 Things I Have Learned in 50 Years" A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person. -- Dave Berry, "25 Things I Have Learned in 50 Years" No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously. -- Dave Berry, "25 Things I Have Learned in 50 Years" When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy. -- Dave Berry, "25 Things I Have Learned in 50 Years" Your friends love you anyway. -- Dave Berry, "25 Things I Have Learned in 50 Years" Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. -- Dave Berry, "25 Things I Have Learned in 50 Years" http://www.enginesofmischief.com/makers/evan/sigs/barry.html
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Very insightful: This division of labour, from which so many advantages are derived, is not originally the effect of any human wisdom, which foresees and intends that general opulence to which it gives occasion. It is the necessary, though very slow and gradual, consequence of a certain propensity in human nature, which has in view no such extensive utility ; the propensity to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another. http://www.online-literature.com/adam_smith/wealth_nations/2/
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Fri Dec 30 19:39:56 AEDT 2011
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One of the most obvious fears people have when first trying a retrospective is that the ritual will become a negative gripe session, interspersed with blame and counter blame. Clearly such an event will not contribute to much learning. http://tech.groups.yahoo.com[..]/group/extremeprogramming/message/125639 meaningful
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Fri Dec 30 19:39:56 AEDT 2011
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Quotations on simplicity in software design - http://www.jbox.dk/quotations.htm "Every bug fix is also a bug risk." -- Graham Hamilton Computer Programming: Every problem can be solved by breaking it up into a series of smaller problems. The computer will always do exactly what you tell it to. Software Engineering: Writing the code is the easy part. Writing it so someone else can understand it later is the important part. Make it work, then make it elegant, then make it fast. http://fishbowl.pastiche.org[..]he_two_things_about_computer_programming A lot of quotation - http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000855.html Customers aren't disappointed when you don't meet your commitments; they're disappointed when it means they can't meet theirs. - http://jchyip.blogspot.com[..]stomers-arent-disappointed-when-you.html If something is painful to do but you know you will have to do it eventually, then practice doing it so that when you do have to do it, you can do it well. - http://jchyip.blogspot.com/2007/06/extreme-programming-made.html === The worst situation I've experienced was when sales promised a delivery date before I was even hired to work on it. (To be fair, there was one guy, who started on it then quit.) The project involved fairly extensive modifications to a nightmare legacy code base. That was a fun job: "Welcome aboard, here's the source code, nobody knows how it works, the customer's been waiting a year for these modifications *and* you've got another project that depends on this one, how long will it take?" Needless to say, nobody wanted to hear the right answer. === Voltaire said: Common sense is not so common. # Silver bullets are expensive, especially considering... # There are no vampires.Sometimes, in IT today, it appears that common sense is masked by common practice, making it seem counter-intuitive. http://www.think-box.co.uk/blog/2008/01/common.html http://jchyip.blogspot.com[..]/documentation-of-work-is-not-about.html # Silver bullets are expensive, especially considering... # There are no vampires. - http://www.developsense.com/2009/01/metaphor-silver-bullets.html In God we trust, everything else we test. - http://www.testinggeek.com/index.php http://daipratt.co.uk/programming-and-it-quotes/ http://www.coderfriendly.com[..]009/12/30/my-5-favorite-software-quotes/ http://www.junauza.com[..]p-50-programming-quotes-of-all-time.html
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PS: If this is a typical day on planet earth, humans will add fifteen million tons of carbon to the atmosphere, destroy 115 square miles of tropical rainforest, create seventy-two miles of desert, eliminate between forty to one hundred species, erode seventy-one million tons of topsoil, add 2,700 tons of CFCs to the stratosphere, and increase their population by 263,000 - Konstantin Ignatyev
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What is the difference of software architect from software designer? About 30k http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?design.4.491003 The law of conservation of energy - If there is no work, sleep. Money is not everything. There's Mastercard & Visa. One should love animals. They are so tasty. Save water. Shower with your girlfriend. Love the neighbor. But don?t get caught. Behind every successful man, there is a man. And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two. Every man should marry. After all, happiness is not the only thing in life. The wise never marry, And when they marry they become otherwise. Success is a relative term. It brings so many relatives. Never put off the work till tomorrow what you can put off today. Love is photogenic. It needs darkness to develop. Children in backseats cause accidents. Accidents in backseats cause children. Your future depends on your dreams.? So go to sleep. There should be a better way to start a day than waking up every morning. Hard work never killed anybody.? But why take the risk? Work fascinates me.? I can look at it for hours! God made relatives; Thank God we can choose our friends. When two?s company, three?s the result! A dress is like a barbed fence. It protects the premises without restricting the view. The more you learn, the more you know, The more you know, the more you forget. The more you forget, the less you know. So why bother to learn. Edward Abbey "Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second." Ashley Montagu "The idea is to die young as late as possible."
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愛斯基摩人成為全球暖化首批氣候難民 地球暖化日益嚴重，全球民眾受害，而住在北極圈附近的愛斯基摩人更是首當其衝，因為他們居住的極地小島日漸縮小，有可能遭海水淹沒，因此迫使他們遷移，這使得愛斯基摩人成為全球第一批氣候難民。根據紀錄，美國阿拉斯加地區的氣溫過去30年上升了攝氏4度，導致冰河溶化，海水上升，當地一座小島「沙里契夫」的面積已經減半，北極圈內許多愛斯基摩村莊都面臨不保威脅。當地一名愛斯基摩人說，全球暖化使得他們週遭的風浪一年比一年大，土地流失一年比一年嚴重，漁獲量也不如從前，不少村民已經陸續遷移，但仍有不少人因為經濟無力負擔，留在原地，前途未卜。 ref: http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/070305/1/b5eu.html
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複雜的事情要簡單做。 簡單的事情要認真做。 認真的事情要重複做。 重複的事情要創造性地做。 Franklin D. Roosevelt - "Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds." Given all that fear and panic, it's no surprise that otherwise rational people sometimes (often!) ignore rational arguments. "Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition." "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer." --Albert Einstein Friedrich Nietzsche - "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." Denzel Washington - "You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it." James Thurber - "Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more." Henry David Thoreau - "The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it." Francis Bacon - "A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." George Burns - "You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old." "You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive." - http://johnhaller.com/jh/ "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice - in practice there is." - http://tomicic.de/BlogQuotationOfTheWeek.aspx “At twenty we worry about what others think of us; at forty we don't care about what others think of us; at sixty we discover they haven't been thinking about us at all.” John Ruskin - "All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time." Winston Churchill - "this paper by its very length defends itself against the chance of being read". Niccolo Machiavelli - It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved. "True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen." "The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary." - Vince Lombardi "The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now." - Bill Cosby Victor Hugo - "There is nothing like a dream to create the future." Robert Benchley - "A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down." Plato - "There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain." Christopher Marlowe - "Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position." Satchel Paige - "Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines." Robert Half - "When one teaches, two learn." Abigail Van Buren - "The less you talk, the more you're listened to." Eric Butterworth - "Don't go through life, grow through life." Oswald Chambers - "The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone." If you keep talking… You miss the valuable things that other people have to say. Listen, reflect, and then comment. Not before. - http://www.thekua.com/atwork/2007/10/23/if-you-keep-talking/ Paul Tournier - "Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can." Managers manage resources... , People are not resources. http://digerati-illuminatus.blogspot.com[..]m/2006/12/managers-manage-resources.html "Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence." --Robert Frost Everyone at these conferences focus on tools like value stream mapping and 5S. But the tools are only 25% of the story. Lean is about people, not about waste. Focus on the employees -- all other benefits are just by-products. - http://jchyip.blogspot.com[..]ean-is-about-people-not-about-waste.html "Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars." - Les Brown “Your attitude has been affecting other departments”, he said. “And I want to thank you for it.” - http://blog.objectmentor.com[..]-attitude-is-affecting-other-departments Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. - George Edward Woodberry "Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned." - Harold S. Geneen "Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith." - Paul Tillich 所以我认为同学们不要妄自菲薄，见到自己不懂的，或似懂非懂的，就认为是高深学问，畏而敬之。更不要骗自己，不懂却认为是懂。同学要问︰皇帝何来新衣了？不久前一位同学问及他高举的诺斯的某术语何解。我说不懂。我怎会不懂诺斯呢？同事十三年，好几个学期他旁听我的课。诺斯对问题重要性的感受好，这是天赋，是他的本钱，创造术语只不过是他的成名玩意，而这种颇为流行的玩意他的本领只是一般。是的，经济学行内有走不同路线的人，本领各各不同，有些成名，有些被认为是笨蛋。同学不要管这些。要管的是分析，因为这是脑子的操练，对整生的任何一方面都有好处。论分析，其中一个要点是任何术语，甚至任何一个字，其意思或理解都不要放过。坚持要知道，要明白。这样，三几年后同学会体会到学问有真假之分。是的，做学问要执着。 - http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_47841af70100cw6c.html Tough times never last, but tough people do. - Robert H. Schuller Emile Zola - "The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work." Vivien Leigh - "Life is too short to work so hard." Plautus - "The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money." Benjamin Franklin - "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." Pierre Teilhard de Chardin - "The world is round so that friendship may encircle it." Paulo Coelho - "Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience." ‘To achieve great things, two things are needed, a plan and not quite enough time.’ — Leonard Bernstein Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton - "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." Vash Young - "Any experience can be transformed into something of value." Dwight L. Moody - "If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me." Eric Hoffer "It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor." Jose Ortega y Gasset "I am I plus my circumstances." Jean-Jacques Rousseau "The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless." “An expert is [someone] who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field” – Niels Bohr Robert Lynd - "Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with." Auguste Rodin "I invent nothing, I rediscover."
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Fri Dec 30 19:39:56 AEDT 2011
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"The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character." -- Peter De Vries "Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it." -- Josh Billings Lucretius - "We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another." Robert Louis Stevenson - "Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police." Nicolas de Chamfort - "There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love." Edward Abbey "Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing."
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* "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." - Thomas Edison. * "The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane." - Nikola Tesla * "Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus." - Alexander Graham Bell * "A problem well stated is a problem half-solved." - Charles Kettering * "The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil." - Thomas Edison * "There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly." - R. Buckminster Fuller * "A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving." - Ray Kurzweil * "It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again." - Charles Kettering * "What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are." - George Eastman * "God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper." - R. Buckminster Fuller * "Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits." - Thomas Edison * "When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." - Alexander Graham Bell * "We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work." - Charles Kettering http://traderfeed.blogspot.com[..]/life-insights-from-great-inventors.html
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Type >of followed by a space, then begin the name of the file you are looking for. - http://www.alteridem.net[..]uickly-findopen-a-file-in-visual-studio/
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On 9/27/07, Carfield Yim wrote:
How to get instance fo nsIDownloader using javaxpcom?
It's not too difficult. The JavaScript code you pointed to has this line:
var nsIDownloader = Components.classes["@ mozilla.org/network/downloader;1"].createInstance();
The "Components" object is a helper object in Mozilla JavaScript, so we need to do things differently in JavaXPCOM.
We need to use the nsIComponentManager interface ( http://mxr.mozilla.org[..]com/components/nsIComponentManager.idl), which has a createInstance() method. So something like this:
nsIComponentManager compMgr = Mozilla.getInstance().getComponentManager();
nsIDownloader createInstance = (nsIDownloader) compMgr
.createInstance( "@ mozilla.org/network/downloader;1", null,
nsIDownloader.NS_IDOWNLOADER_IID );
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