聲嘶力竭的唱著

 

 

 

 

最高權力講的是羅馬共和時期最偉大的演說家西塞羅的執政之路。羅馬共和時期由羅馬公民選出護民官、法務官、財政官、與最高權力的執政官。平常提案與重要議題則是由元老院討論過後，再投票表決。元老院類似今天的議會，元老也各成派系，貴族與平民階級互相對抗。西塞羅出身中產階級，卻憑他在希臘學得的好口才，一步步走上最高的執政官之位。本書透過西賽羅的貼身秘書來敘述這段過程，雖然有許多虛構的部分，但歷史上確有其人，這位秘書也確實寫過一部關於西塞羅的記錄，只是在羅馬帝國崩解時遺失。

看這本書的時候有點像看二月河的雍正王朝，其間政治心機角力，是智慧也是運氣。西塞羅獲得名師教導，成為當時數一數二的律師，並藉由起訴貪贓枉法的西西里總督而一戰成名。打擊權貴的印象使貴族對之深為厭惡，屢在西塞羅從政之路上阻撓。為了獲得最高權力，西塞羅也曾背棄理念、也曾以言詞煽動選民，但處在共合與帝制交界的他，維護共和體制卻是始終如一。

羅馬成為地中海強權後，戰功彪炳的將軍們無不希望能獲得更多權力。元老院的派系鬥爭，使得野心家有機可趁，意圖藉選舉操弄制度。龐培(龐貝城以他為名)、克拉蘇、以及算是西塞羅晚輩的凱撒都打著集權的主意。他們以愛國主義激化選民，跟今天的操弄族群的手段並無不同。把複雜的問題簡化成對自己有利的是非題，是政治最高藝術。

羅馬共和體制有其光榮的傳統，但隨著派系鬥爭，是非的重要性已遜於利益，因此惡棍有可能被判無罪、提案變成利益交換也司空見慣。大大小小的選舉不斷，讓政治版圖變換，也養活了買票、賣票的樁腳。這些事情跟今天的社會沒有不同，也讓這本書更有可看性。

本書花了很多篇幅描述西塞羅步步為營的計畫，從財政官一路過關斬將到執政官(因為羅馬執政官必須擔任過其他公職有所歷練才能參選執政官)。他以律師的身分服務委託者，其實就是深耕基層，培養死忠選民。但當時羅馬貴族勢力畢竟還是根深蒂固，西塞羅必須適度與不同派系合作尋求支持。因戰功、做生意、選舉而擠身上流社會的”新進者”，往往受到古老貴族的鄙視，西塞羅就常常因此而受到挫折與不公平的對待。但貴族跟西塞羅共同的理念就是反對專制獨裁，因此當凱撒等人意圖成為”唯一”最高權力時，水火不溶的兩派人也不得不合作對抗，果然是沒有永遠的敵人。

這本書被認為是哈里斯最傑出的作品，事實銷售量也佐證了這個看法。西元前的羅馬人就已經在玩弄的政治手段，在當今政壇還是屢見不鮮。選舉的弊端、流言也仍然存在，甚至更為粗糙直接。羅馬古城早已城段原廢墟，西塞羅、凱撒等人也歸於塵土，可人性對權力財富的慾望卻是兩千多年來唯一不變的。

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

詞:陳沒 曲:伍冠諺

 

時光是琥珀 淚一滴滴 被反鎖
情書再不朽 也磨成沙漏

 

青春的上游 白雲飛走 蒼狗與海鷗
閃過的念頭 潺潺的溜走
命運好幽默 讓愛的人都沉默
一整個宇宙 換一顆紅豆

 

回憶如困獸　寂寞太久 而漸漸溫柔
放開了拳頭 反而更自由

 

慢動作 繾綣膠卷 重播默片 定格一瞬間

 

我們在告別的演唱會 說好不再見
你寫給我 我的第一首歌
你和我十指緊扣 默寫前奏
可是那然後呢
還好我有 我這一首情歌
輕輕的輕輕哼著 哭著笑著
我的 天長地久

 

命運好幽默 讓愛的人都沉默
一整個宇宙 換一顆紅豆

 

回憶如困獸 寂寞太久 而漸漸溫柔
放開了拳頭 反而更自由

 

長鏡頭 越拉越遠 越來越遠 事隔好幾年
我們在懷念的演唱會 禮貌地吻別

 

你寫給我 我的第一首歌
你和我十指緊扣 默寫前奏
可是那然後呢
還好我有 我這一首情歌
輕輕的輕輕哼著 哭著笑著
我的 天長地久

 

陪我唱歌 清唱你的情歌
捨不得 短短副歌
心還熱著 也該告一段落
還好我有 我下一首情歌
生命宛如 靜靜的 相擁的河
永遠 天長地久

 

 

Interviewing Java Developers With Tears in My Eyes

Do you call yourself a Java developer?
Yakov Fain

During the last week I had to interview five developers for a position that required the following skills: Flex, Java, Spring, and Hibernate.  Most of these guys had demonstrated the 3 out of 10 level of Flex skills even though each of them claimed a practical experience on at least two projects. But this didn’t surprise me – Flex is still pretty new and there is only a small number of developers on the market who can really get Flex things done.

What surprised me the most is a low level of Java skills of most of these people. They have 5-8 years of Java EE project behind their belts, but they were not Java developers. They were species that I can call Robot-Configurator.  Each of them knew how to configure XML files for Spring, they knew how to hook up Spring and Hibernate and how to map a Java class to a database entity. Some of them even knew how to configure lazy loading in Hibernate even though not all understood why it’s needed.

Two out of five developers who claimed seniority in Java proved to have a mid-level understanding of this programming language. The other three really disappointed me.  They didn’t even know the basics of Java…One of them had no idea of what interfaces are for. The other one was still killing a thread by calling a deprecated ten years ago method  stop(), the third guy had issues explaining the data flow of a standard Web application built with Servlets and JDBC.

Next time you’ll be interviewing a Java guru, ask him/her the following question, “There is an HTML form with a button Submit, a servlet and a relational database with the table Customers.  The users enters a First and Last names of the customer, presses the button Submit, and you need to write the code that would return the detailed data about this customer. Explain IN DETAILS the entire data flow and the HTML/Java processing you’d need to perform.”

Do not forget to repeat that the candidate is not allowed to use neither Spring, nor Hibernate.  You might be surprised...

I like Java, and it’s sad to see these herds of creatures who truly believe that they are Java developers.  They aren’t

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

一張浪漫的照片

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

這是一首葡萄牙的民歌, 旋律很好聽, 印象中我在獅子王裡面好像有聽過

 

原本是在Google上打hippo, 結果我打錯了...打成hipoo~ 就看到了這首歌 0rz

 

 

歌詞

偶然聽到的一首歌~~  好聽的旋律!

 

 

 

 

There's too many things that i haven't done yet
Too many sunsets
I haven't seen
You can't waste the day wishing it'd slow down
You would've thought by now
I'd have learned something

I made up my mind when i was a young girl
I've been given this one world
I won't worry it away
But now and again i lose sight of the good life
I get stuck in a low light
But then Love comes in

How far do i have to go to get to you
Many the miles
Many the miles
How far do i have to go to get to you
Many the miles
But send me the miles and i'll be happy to follow you Love

I do what i can wherever i end up
To keep giving my good love
And spreading it around
Cause i've had my fiar share of take care and goodbyes
I've learned how to cry
And i'm better for that

Sing how far do i have to go to get to you
Many the miles
Many the miles
How far do i have to go to get to you
Many the miles
Send me the miles and i'll be happy to
Follow you Love

Red letter day and i'm in a blue mood
Wishing that blue would just carry me away
I've been talking to God don't know
If it's helping or not
But surely something has got to got to got to give
Cause i can't keep waiting to live

How far do i have to go to get to you
Many the miles
Many the miles
How far do i have to go to get to you
Many the miles
But send me the miles and i'll be happy to yeah
How far do i have to go to get to you
Many the miles
Many the miles
How far do i have to go to get to you
Many the miles
Many the miles
Been talking to God don't know if it's helping or not
Many the miles
Many the miles
How far do i have to go to get to you
Many the miles
Many the miles
Oh send me the miles and i'll be happy to
Follow you Love

There's too many things i haven't done yet
Too many sunsets i haven't seen