关于工作态度的一点想法

在”The Apprentice”第三季中第一个被淘汰的人其实没有犯什么错误, 而且能力也不错. Trump 解雇他的理由是
“There is no contribution to the team”. 虽然那个人争辩说 team leader 管理无方,
没有给他分配任何工作, 这个时候 Trump 说了很经典的话 “do not wait for the tasks, talk with
your leader on what you can do and do it”. 这就是 leadership, 以及看一本管理书上说的
“象管理下属一样管理你的上司” (当然不是指态度).

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最近买卖频繁

最近在逐渐卖掉一些闲置的电子产品,卖掉的感觉不错。Apple 的 那个 iSight 放了2年没有用了,今天有人 $80 买了。还有路由器,一台旧机器 (sold on $120) 和一些网线,希望卖掉的好。同时从公司拍卖得到机器硬盘太小,为了它能够接我的80G外接硬盘,还要买一个USB2.0的PCI卡和硬盘盒 (bought at 50$ total),总之今天要搞定!

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Install RMatlab on Solaris using gcc

Well, things become complicated in this environment. Rmatlab enables inter-programming between Matlab and R, it uses mex (the matabl compiler) during installation to be installed within R as shared library, so that it can be used in matlab as well. Howerver, mex in Solaris hardcoded to use Solaris’s its own CC compiler, which we do not have. So I have to hack mex (the matlab compiler wrapper) to compile Rmatlab for R, using GCC on Solaris where there is no Solaris CC (Damn complicated).  

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