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Spring Festival

Chinese New Year is approaching.

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According to http://imnerd.org/douban/ I only read 6 books in the year 2011.

2

I visited a lot of places in Shanghai.

3

I am not sure with whom I will end up with.
"She's smart, sexy, sophisticated, spontaneous, complicated.", quote from Mr. & Mrs. Smith.
In fact, I am only thinking that she should be really into me.

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work

Just visited one of my old and abandoned blogs by chance.

And in its description reads "自由，自制".

They are nice words.

How to translate them?

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已过年中3个月了。我忘了要在年中的时候写点什么了。

2

悬而未决的状态最后还算有一个好的结束。
离开了帝都来到魔都。
遇贵人相助。
Shanghai, I love you!

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work

It's past 00:00, so it's technically already Saturday. But let me call it Friday night.

And, what are we talking about when we talk about TGIF(Thank God It's Friday)?

An escape from work? A reunion with old acquaintances?

Whatever, I don't wanna disappoint those who trust and are nice to me.

I'm coughing.

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6月25日下午开始看《裸婚时代》，6月27日半夜看完。
看这部剧的动力和《蜗居》的一样，作为和当代密切相关的资料片看。

作为一部电视剧，这部剧：
节奏挺慢的，用二倍速看挺好；
有些桥段、引用蛮有意思的。

然后：
故事中的两个年轻人与《蜗居》里的相比，貌似更加无辜；
这部剧里的情节比《蜗居》里的更加容易让我联想到现实。

现实：
现实里没有孙晓娆；
联想到公司里的一个同事本来开车来上班，经常腐败的，有了孩子之后就开始带饭了；
公司里的另一个同事本来经常腐败的，刚买了车开来上班，老婆怀孕了，也开始带饭了；
一高中同学因为意外怀孕一毕业就结婚了。

裸婚时代OST

裸婚时代全集

最近，苦于需要在微软的框架内工作。
微软的东西的其中一个特点就是限定好的丰富，她为你提供了丰富的她认为好用的对的途径、方法、接口。
然而，就我的感觉，她的好多东西都不适合工作，不好用，效率低下。

相反，开源、自由、免费软件社区则是一个群策群力的地方。大体上，你可以贡献自己认为好用的东西，不过这个东西会经过所有社区成员的测试选择，与实现同样功能的东西竞争。最后的默认包里包含的往往是被广泛接受的组件们，而特立独行的使用者也可以选择把那些广泛接受的组件换成自己更喜欢的不那么流行的等价物。

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思绪飘浮，想到了这么一个比较。

****精神文明是封闭的。大家可以在*的领导下畅所欲言。比如，大家可以在征得*的同意之后发表批评*的言论。

道��（原则、信念）是开源、自由、免费的。道��的内容随时代、地域、人群而改变。反映着大家的需求。

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墙外，开源、自由、免费软件让生活更美好。

墙内，盗版微软。鲜有自由。

How to grow in an organization
Posted by Sanchit Jain April 7, 2009

I read a story in my high school English book written by a famous Indian author (I forgot the name) – There was an old blind man who used to work in a grocery store. He was very good at mathematics. He used to sit next to the shop owner. Whenever a customer bought goods from the shop, the owner would speak out the product list. The old man would quickly calculate the total amount payable with his impeccable strong hold on mathematics. He also had a good memory and knew the prices of all the products. One day when he came to the shop, he came to know that the owner had bought a new device called a calculator. The calculator could do all the maths and much faster! Slowly the old man became obsolete. The owner had not asked him to leave but he felt he was not doing much at the shop and became restless.
One day when he was sitting next to the owner as usual, with the owner doing all the maths on the calculator, the owner wanted to know the price of a product. The old man of course had this information handy through years of working in the shop. In fact he also knew how much quantity of that product was in the shop. From that day his role changed, he would advice the owner on inventory management, cost price and selling price of each product.
A few days later on being asked by someone what was he still doing in the shop, when the owner now had the calculator, the old man said that he had been promoted to be a manager!
The morale of the story is simple. To grow in an organization, make yourself replaceable. Grow your fellow employees to take your place. Growing your team should be the higher objective, and you’ll see that your own growth was a natural consequence.

Comments

how true… this happens always. As organizations grow they change, so the roles of everyone also change. If employees don’t change and grow as the organization grows, they become pretty soon dispensable. You can only be indispensable if you grow out of your job and move to more value added job. This is true of any organization. Growing your career by jumping ship is the most risky path, once you get stuck in this jumping game, there is no safety net, you fall very badly. Grow naturally by learning you will have a healthy growth and you will enjoy the growth.
Comment by Maqbool Patel on April 14, 2009 @ 9:00 am

True, job hopping may result in a short term apparent growth but it would probably not give one a career. A survey of the CXO’s revealed that 90% of them were not job hoppers, they would have switched only a few jobs in their long careers…and most of them did not do it for money but more to align their work with their expertise.
Which is quite natural. There are two ways – if you don’t like your work you can go look for another job, and the process may be endless. Or you change what is not good at your present job, improve the present organization wherever needed, and carve your way to leadership.
Comment by Sanchit Jain on April 14, 2009 @ 9:59 am

how can we identify the areas where we need to grow so that we can be replaceable? The knowledge about all the products, inventory etc that old man in the story had made him replaceable but all this knowledge came from his past experience. The best part is his expertise and interest in his work, things like how much quantity of that product was in the shop, etc… shows his interest in his work. The expertise which came through his interest and pride he has show towards his work made him replaceable.
If we can identify such key areas and expertise in such areas than we are ready to get replaced.
Comment by Nikhil on April 17, 2009 @ 12:54 pm

In true sense when one works on replacing oneself he/she is not replacing himself/herself, but the job. Once you work towards replacing yourself, all you are doing is replacing/enhancing the job you are currently doing. This can be done at every level. Let’s say you are a Java developer. Currently you are doing job of pure development, ie, someone defines the project for you and architecture and you go ahead code it as per the spec. As you try to replace that coding job, you think what else can you do? In the process of coding, you have learnt a lot about the domain itself, how the work flow happens, how the messages are handled, etc. Why not make a jump and start your own design and start comparing your design with the design your manager/lead gave you and start the dialog and keep growing. Now the job of a pure developer has become not just developer, but of a mini-architect. You can also look around and see where are the pain points of the project/organization are, like communications, HL7, DICOM, EDI, XML etc. This you will know if you participate in project status meeting (many people think this is a waste full thing to do) and start developing those skills as they pertain to your job and start growing….
Comment by Maqbool on April 20, 2009 @ 7:51 pm

via: How to grow in an organization | Technology Bits and Bytes

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p.s.
The General Manager told us interns: do whatever you can, to make your boss successful; do whatever you can, to make your subordinates successful.

最近看了一期非诚勿扰（安田失败退场）。
里面提到了写在哈佛某个校门内外的两句话：Enter to grow in wisdom; depart to serve better thy country and thy kind. (by Charles William Eliot)

想起竺可桢校长的两个问题：诸位在校，有两个问题应该自己问问，第一，到浙大来做什么？第二，将来毕业后要做什么样的人？
以及流传极广的一个回答：混；混混。

看了“两个问题”的演讲全文，在结尾，竺老自己回答了这两个问题：第一，诸位求学，应不仅在科目本身，而且要训练如何能正确地训练自己的思想；第二，我们人生的目的是在能服务，而不在享受。

竺老曾在哈佛求学，其后治校之风格深受哈校影响。

My laptop crashed yesterday, because of some hard drive failure.

The worst thing could follow is total loss of data on that 500GB hard drive.
And according to Thinkpad CS, I have to wait until after the Spring Festival holidays to find out the result.

Ironically, I had run a backup on my laptop just on the evening before yesterday.
But I didn't have a consideration on what data is significant.
So, by default configs, the backup includes only a small part of the data important to me.

"Until the loss of something, you won't know how much it values to you."

"If no one but you could ever remember something, isn't it just a void?"

Good luck to all my data.

Data loss - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

And, happy Chinese New Year to you all~