Sviluppatori del software italici che sognano di andare a San Francisco, ecco a voi il racconto di chi lo ha fatto per un anno (ma non è italico)

Money quote: "On my first trip to SF, it was already quite telling. Flying from Toronto airport I noticed a higher than usual technology themed tees, stickers on laptops and black terminals. Pretty exciting! By chance My Uber driver to downtown told me he was applying to a free machine learning course ran by Google. On the way I noticed that the billboards next to the highways were directly targetting developers."

https://evertpot.com/a-look-back-at-sf/

Sarebbe arrivato il momento di capire finalmente il genio di Kurt Gödel. Seriously.

Money quote: "The logician and philosopher Kurt Gödel passes the Einstein/Russell test, in doing work whose importance is beyond argument, but can also seem beyond comprehension as well. If you wanted to make the case that he should join them as a celebrated public figure, you could point out that among his work is an important contribution to the interpretation of Einstein’s relativity theory, and that he pulled the rug out from under the project on which Russell spilled most sweat. And Gödel’s advocate would start out with more name-recognition to build on than you might imagine. In 1999, when Time magazine conducted a survey of its readers to determine the 20 most influential thinkers of the 20th century (a poll topped by Einstein), Gödel, who has often been described as “the most important logician since Aristotle,” came ninth—ahead of Keynes, Watson and Crick of DNA fame and world wide web pioneer Tim Berners-Lee."

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/kurt-godel-and-the-romance-of-logic

La prima puntata di Tilde ~ è su YouTube. Solo questa, non le altre. È un modo per far conoscere il podcast anche agli altri ragazzi, via, non facciamo gli snob.

https://youtu.be/mQAxkyYxAvw

Giovani padri stressati dal senso del dovere e del provvedere alla prole? Ecco pronto per voi un nuovo senso di colpa, fresco fresco. Adesso lo stress lo trasmettete anche ai figli. Untori!

Money quote: "Carrying proteins, lipids and nucleic acids, these particles ejected from a cell act like a postal system that extends to all parts of the body, releasing little packages known as extracellular vesicles. Their contents seem carefully chosen. “The cargo inside the vesicle determines not just where it came from but where it’s going and what it’s doing when it gets there,” says Tracy Bale, a neurobiologist at the University of Maryland School of Medicine."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-dads-stresses-get-passed-along-to-offspring/

Fenomenologia (ma bisognerebbe dire psicopatologia, secondo me) degli influencer

Money quote: "Social media influencers ply their trade in realms far beyond fake lashes. Marketers of literature, wellness, fashion, entertainment, and other wares are all hooked on influencers. As brands have warmed to social-media advertising, influencer marketing has grown into a multibillion-dollar industry. Unlike traditional television or print ads, influencers have dedicated niche followings who take their word as gospel."

https://www.wired.com/story/pricey-war-influence-your-instagram-feed/

I migliori libri sul SEO, l’ottimizzazione dei contenuti web per il motori di ricerca - il mio articolo per Macity

https://www.macitynet.it/i-migliori-libri-sul-seo-ottimizzazione-contenuti/

Lg Ultrawide35, recensione del superschermo curvo per super smart working - il mio articolo per Macity

https://www.macitynet.it/lg-ultrawide35-recensione-del-superschermo-curvo-per-super-smart-working/

Diplomacy è IL gioco da tavolo, quello che è arrivato prima di tutti e che ha gettato le basi per quello che è venuto dopo. In questo long (long) form, la storia da sapere.

Money quote: "The year was 1966. A 17-year-old boy named Edi Birsan was sitting in his room in Brooklyn staring at a letter he received in the mail. He scanned the same sentence over and over: I am not against a three-way draw and I will not take any more supply centers … On the table in front of him was a Diplomacy game board, showing a game at about the midway point."

http://grantland.com/features/diplomacy-the-board-game-of-the-alpha-nerds/

Se vi annoiate a studiare o lavorare da casa e avete bisogno di un po' di colonna sonora, qui trovate tutto

http://imissmybar.com

ZZT e la nascita di Epic: il successo sta in un piccolo particolare

Money quote: "The genius of ZZT in the early 1990s was that it wasn’t just a cute ASCII-based adventure. With every copy of ZZT downloaded, players also got an in-game world editor for free. That’s because ZZT’s text editor roots meant that Sweeney created the game engine and editor first and then built his game worlds within it."

https://www.howtogeek.com/713532/before-fortnite-there-was-zzt-meet-epics-first-game/

Microsoft vuole reinventare lo smart working - il mio articolo per Wired

https://www.wired.it/economia/lavoro/2021/03/02/microsoft-smart-working-lavoro-viva/

Abb vuole mettere un cobot in tutte le pmi - il mio articolo per Wired

https://www.wired.it/economia/business/2021/03/03/abb-cobot-pmi/

Trenta anni dopo, il videogioco creato da Douglas Adams dalla sua "Guida galattica per autostoppisti" è online sul sito della Bbc. Ed è uno spettacolo, in tutti i sensi

Money quote: "Safari will now only keep settings in local storage for seven days, so if you save a game and come back a week later, it'll be gone. We're working on a long term fix for this, but in the meantime we can only advise using another browser to play the game or it'll be even more frustrating than usual.

Of course, you've chosen to play this game so that sense of permanent frustrating bafflement may be something you enjoy, in which case, please carry on as you were."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1g84m0sXpnNCv84GpN2PLZG/the-game-30th-anniversary-edition

50 anni fa nasceva Creeper, il primo worm della storia dell'informatica - il mio articolo di qualche giorni fa per Wired

https://www.wired.it/internet/web/2021/02/20/creeper-primo-worm-informatica-cybersecurity/

L'idea alla base di questo saggio è molto semplice: vanno eliminati anche dirigenti della pubblica amministrazione, perché spesso la colpa di molte cose è loro ma non c'è una valutazione e una responsabilità simmetrica

Money quote: "I’ve talked a lot recently about bad management as a root cause of poor infrastructure, especially on Twitter. The idea, channeled through Richard Mlynarik, is that the main barrier to good US infrastructure construction, or at least one of the main barriers, is personal incompetence on behalf of decisionmakers. Those decisionmakers can be elected officials, with levels of authority ranging from governors down to individual city council members; political appointees of said officials; quasi-elected power brokers who sit on boards and are seen as representative of some local interest group; public-sector planners; or consultants, usually ones who are viewed as an extension of the public sector and may be run by retired civil servants who get a private-sector salary and a public-sector pension. In this post I’d like to zoom in on the managers more than on the politicians, not because the politicians are not culpable, but because in some cases the managers are too. Moreover, I believe removal of managers with a track record of failure is a must for progress."

https://pedestrianobservations.com/2021/02/06/the-need-to-remove-bad-management

Il BBC Micro, lo home computer creato dalla Bbc (!) compie 40 anni. Qui la sua storia

Money quote: "The project helped inspire a generation of coders."

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-56098808

Letture consigliate durante pandemia e lockdown

Money quote: "Jane Kenyon was my student. She was smart, she wrote poems, she was funny and frank in class. I knew she lived in a dormitory near my house, so one night I asked her to housesit while I attended an hour-long meeting. (In Ann Arbor, it was the year of breaking and entering.) When I came home, we went to bed. We enjoyed each other, libertine liberty as much as pleasures of the flesh. Later I asked her to dinner, which in 1970 always included breakfast. We saw each other once a week, still dating others, then twice a week, then three or four times a week, and saw no one else. One night, we spoke of marriage. Quickly we changed the subject, because I was nineteen years older and, if we married, she would be a widow so long. We married in April, 1972. We lived in Ann Arbor three years, and in 1975 left Michigan for New Hampshire. She adored this old family house."

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/double-solitude

Lo strano caso del successo di Alan Ford e del Gruppo TNT in Serbia e nel resto della ex Yugoslavia

Money quote: "The fact that Bunker’s humour was understood by his Yugoslav readers had a lot to do with translator Nenad Brixy. “He managed to create a peculiar language” Sršen explains, “through which all the characters spoke with a strange mixture of high style and street lingo, something originally theatrical and bizarrely funny.”"

https://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/12465/alan-ford-comic-books-yugoslavia

Tra le più interessanti in uscita questo mese.

https://www.fumettologica.it/2021/03/anime-streaming-marzo-2021/

Mac, iPhone, iPad: la sicurezza informatica secondo Apple - il mio articolo per La Stampa

https://www.lastampa.it/tecnologia/news/2021/03/07/news/mac-iphone-ipad-la-sicurezza-informatica-secondo-apple-1.39992056