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IMDB评分前250名地图

najja — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 08:46:14 +0000

法国人做的, 太好玩了, 一定要推荐下. IMDB真是太美国化了啊, 特别是还有个Western & Co的分类, 这个分类最顶端还是Wo Hu Cang Long (2000).

另外这个前250名在不同年代的分布也很有意思, 好多近期的电影的确是被高估了. 因为imdb把投票人数算成进排名的条件之一, 所以很多>8.3分的老片因为票不够多不够格排进来.

BTW Vertigo最高!

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转贴：远望方知风浪小

najja — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 23:55:00 +0000

评论：写得真好。回首向来萧瑟处，也无风雨也无晴

这一轮熊市的下跌，创造了中国股市的纪录，宏观经济形势和股市供求关系好像从来没有这样严峻过。坚持长期投资的定投基金投资者，必须把眼光放远，才能把握真相。

例如，1998年亚洲金融危机时，中国正遇到百年不遇的洪灾，当时的暴跌，现在成为难以记起的一个遥远的下午。更早一些，1973年中东战争和石油禁运，石油价格两个月狂涨四倍，天都快塌下来了，现在回望都是笑谈。回头来看，从那时候走过来的投资者，当然不会陷在其中拔不出来。

今天就是平平常常的一天，有开心的事情，也有忧愁的时刻，这都是人生。为什么要为一些短期的困难烦恼呢？无论被格雷厄姆称为“疯子”的市场如何肆虐，事后看都不过是一场恐吓，别把它当真。自古以来没听说过鬼害死人，都是人自己吓死的。

定投基金为什么要在下跌时依然坚持买入，要逆流呢？因为他知道总要流向大海，归宿已经确定，没什么可担忧的。

其实股市与自然都是一个道理。你不能说春天好，就只过阳春三月，炎热的盛夏、萧瑟的深秋和残酷的冬季都避开不过。春夏秋冬是有机的统一体，你厌烦的季节，恰恰是迎来春天不可缺少的环节，否则便不会有春天。顺其自然，按照天道来运行，我们自然会健康饱满，不断成熟。不要企图用自己的力量和机智来跳过这些过程，违背了规律的事情很难成功。也许失去的很多，但我们没有智慧在一开始就知道究竟会失去什么。

比尔·盖茨曾说过：我们发现，越是在自己困难的时候，越是成长和进步最快的时期。股市的暴跌，引起我们深刻的思考，这是积蓄力量、修炼悟道的难得机缘。市场的下跌，我们不要奢求自己没有受到损失，因为我们是普通人，没有挣脱潮流的本事。借助潮流而非盲动，源于对潮流长久本性的认识。

市场暴跌的时候，我们没有能力使自己的资产不缩水，但我们有本事把缩水的幅度保持在与大盘的同步而不是更多。也就是说，我们只接受市场的自然的震荡幅度，不允许出现人为选择的错误和额外的交易成本。不动如山也许比试图把握时机的人多了20%的浮亏，但长久岁月会不落痕迹的抹平这点差距。

动植物的生长经历告诉我们，如果想选择跳开冬天，最后的结局，比挨过冬天所受的伤害更大。欲速则不达，企图超越的结果是更落后，绝大部分人都逃不出市场长期表现的铁律。还是让我们敬畏市场这个不可捉摸的朋友吧。顺从而不是斗争，我们就比多数人更有优势。特别是精心选择优秀企业的股票，更能享受市场长期的馈赠。

也许这次我因为较高的操作水平，空仓观赏着大盘的自由落体，但如果作为一个未来几十年都要进行投资的人来说，未来的几千次大大小小的暴跌，我都能空仓躲过吗？如果我未来几十年都要在水中游泳，见到一个浪头就跑到岸边重要还是了解水的特性、提高水性更重要？

投资是一项长期的工作，越是长期的东西，对技巧要求的越少，对道理要求的越多。越是形势严峻的时候，越是要真正体悟价值投资的真谛的时刻。做一个价值投资者，要彻底、要恒久。长征才上路几里地，就动摇、就慌张，这不是悟道，更不是觉醒。历史是个很复杂的镜子，即使是错的东西，如果坚持下来，都能征服人的心灵。更何况如果是正确的事物，坚持下来的力量是很伟大的。但左右摇摆的结局可能是比坚持错误的结局还要糟。

gender and education

najja — Fri, 30 May 2008 05:22:37 +0000

http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?source=hptextfeature&story_id=11449804 Classical nature VS nurture debate. But I strongly disagree that girls have a absolute edge over boys if treated equal. Equality is a complicated matter. Traditionally people thinks girls SHOULD be inferior in math this discrimination against girls causes them to do worse accordingly. The same occurs to boys: they are taught to ignore literature etc and shun it as girly stuff. So girls are not born with comparative advantage. It's all nurture, really.

越来越懒鸟

najja — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 05:14:06 +0000

看到这个：

人和人之间，当然能建立亲密的关系和感情交流，让人觉得知彼如知己。但是客观现实跟主观的感受是不同的，对他人的内心尤其是语言以外的微妙变化和动机，终究不可能绝对清楚，尤其难以设身处地站在对方立场假想一种对他有利而对自己有害的冲突。人的第一本能，多数时候是自保，虽然未必高尚或道德，却是常见和难以抗拒的现象。我喜欢引用Miller’s Crossin里的台词： “Nobody knows anybody. Not that well.”

这是俺一直想写的论题，人家写的已经很透彻了。

filler link

najja — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 05:13:20 +0000

To fulfill my promise of posting everyday, I am going to share what I am running after.

爱上一个有缺陷的人，怎么办呢？

an interesting geeky blog

najja — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 05:08:22 +0000

Yesterday I stumbled upon a incredibly interesting blog written by a google employer called Steve Yegge, who is a former programmer for amazon. What sets him apart with the popular geeky blogs such as Joel's and Paul Graham's is the unabashed vitriol against some of the most popular programming languages in the world, most conspicuously C++, perl and java. He wrote a lot of articles on java, in which I can sense his love-hate relationship with it. He knows that Java is bound to be popular and he has been forced working with it more than any other language, but he still has a deep disgust against it. However, he said, java is less evil than perl. I feel that people growing up with lisp such as him naturally hates C-like syntax of java and dirty nature of perl compared with the pure mathematical beauty of lisp. Having read a few things about lisp in a famous cs intro book, I'd say that I disagree with it. All the talkings about the superiority of mathamatics doesn't make sense in my opinion. For (* insert ur favourite deity here)'s sake, mathematics is just a tool! You are supposed to make use of it, instead of worshipping it. There are many jobs than can be easily done with perl or java, while lisp applies only in the niche field of AI.

Best part:

Man Dies Waiting for Eclipse to Launch

A software engineer in San Jose, CA was found dead at his desk yesterday, apparently having died while waiting for his Java editing program, Eclipse, to finish its boot process. Coworkers say the engineer came in that morning vowing to "get Eclipse working on his box or die trying." The last thing anyone heard him say aloud was the cryptic comment: "I see the splash screen is appropriately blue." Nobody knows what he meant. The man was then thought to have fallen asleep, but hours later it was discovered that the engineer had died suddenly of apparent natural causes. The forensics team's investigation that evening was reportedly interrupted unexpectedly when the dead man's Eclipse program suddenly finished launching. The team tried to interact with it to see if they could find clues about the man's death, but the program was unresponsive and the machine ultimately had to be rebooted. At this time, the police commissioner says there is no evidence of foul play, and they currently believe the man simply died of either boredom or frustration.

HAHAHAHHA, OMG I can't breath

his old blog
his new blog (you've got to pass great firewall of china to read it)

To delete

najja — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 05:00:49 +0000

XKCD

Facebook

najja — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 04:57:25 +0000

Facebook. It annoys me no end. Worst of all, now I face a dilemma: I changed my relationship status from single to in a relationship two months ago. In response lots of people sent their best wishes. In spite of this we broke up in a month and a half. Should I change it back again? But...it's so embarassing. They'll say:"See? I said she is too haughty to hold a relationship for three months." Suppose I don't, what if there is some potential admirers of mine hanging about in facebook? (tho I have less than a handful of male friends there) Sign...I hate facebook!

Xkcd always gets it right:

"Facebook defines relationships. 'Yeah, we would have broken up last night, but the net connection was down."

(ZT) Why Alice?

najja — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 04:54:13 +0000

ilx!

Thinking about the enduring appeal of the Alice world:1. It is about ideas - intellectual issues - philosophy turned into brain-teasers. So it has had a long afterlife in the intellectual / academic world, as model / something to quote to lighten the tone. I imagine that the Wittgensteinians and logical positivists, et al, made some hay with it; but so have post-structuralists. It has a pliable sort of quality in this respect, perhaps - it can illustrate whatever paradoxical concept you want it to.

2. It also has an indeterminacy, a mystery about it that has never quite been cleared up - an excess of imagination (over the required, I suppose I mean), a lot of odd juxtapositions and abrupt shifts. It has obviously fed into a general C20 interest (artistic and otherwise) in dreams: Surrealism, Joyce (refs in FW), the 60s / hallucinatory / mind-expansion (hence Jefferson Airplane), etc.

3. Can't underestimate sexuality here - though this is a difficult issue because it skirts the edges of paedophilia, with support from the author's biography. But I think that the appeal of Alice as a figure is mildly analogous to that of later icon Lara Croft. I know nowt about LC's video game, but it seems clear to me that (whatever the game's qualities) a lot of identification / fantasizing is going on to boost its appeal. Would Alice be so popular (or popular in the same way) if (s)he was a boy, or if there were no cute blonde drawings pictures of her in her wee dress and stockings?

4. Then again, this kind of thing also feeds into the cultural imaginary broadly identifiable as 'twee' - ie, roughly, a (neo- Romantic?) cult of childhood, a playing at innocence (nb. possible vital importance of Alice as icon for indie-pop girl look? Never mentioned by Reynolds et al). This needn't have an 'indie' inflection - it can just be a matter of people who are comforted by the thought of buttered scones, Oxford colleges, summers by the river, talking rabbits...

stila同学还是那么地能说

najja — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 04:50:25 +0000

我越来越觉得, 男女的感情问题是个case-by-case problem, 每一对都不一样, 像stila那种act by design是行不通的. 但是stila同学是多么的雄辩啊, 每次我都读得快被convert了,

(男生同学读了stila的文对女生的向往破灭不要怪我, 这世上比这写文的人还实用主义的人多着呢)

单身女生手册
 玩弄男人于股掌
 作者的blog