“Lo sapete, no, se c’è una cosa che contraddistingue il paradiso, è che a un certo punto smette di essere tale, tutti ne veniamo scacciati, presto o tardi”
Il "tremendo problema" della procrastinazione nell'era degli strumenti e delle metodologie digitali automatiche
Money quote: "Another thing that might feel familiar: The things that IDoneThis users actually did accomplish, they did very quickly. Half of completed to-do items were done within a day of writing them down. These weren’t longer-term, complex tasks. Ten percent were done within a minute. It was almost like people were writing them down just so they had something to check off. A nice psychological boost, to be sure, but it somewhat defeated the purpose of a to-do list."
https://www.wired.com/story/to-do-apps-failed-productivity-tools/
Money quote: "Another thing that might feel familiar: The things that IDoneThis users actually did accomplish, they did very quickly. Half of completed to-do items were done within a day of writing them down. These weren’t longer-term, complex tasks. Ten percent were done within a minute. It was almost like people were writing them down just so they had something to check off. A nice psychological boost, to be sure, but it somewhat defeated the purpose of a to-do list."
https://www.wired.com/story/to-do-apps-failed-productivity-tools/
WIRED
Hundreds of Ways to Get S#!+ Done—and We Still Don’t
You want to be productive. Software wants to help. But even with a glut of tools claiming to make us all into taskmasters, we almost never master our tasks.
Il lavoro remoto è la norma per i programmatori (lo dice l'Economist!)
Money quote: "On the first weekday of every month, a thread called “Who is hiring” is posted on Hacker News, a news-aggregation website popular with programmers. Hundreds of companies, from one-person operations to trillion-dollar corporations, submit listings. Most of them are based in America, although startup hubs such as Berlin or London are popular as well. According to an analysis by The Economist, only 13% of the jobs posted in the thread in 2011 mentioned remote work. In 2021, more than 75% do"
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/08/11/for-programmers-remote-working-is-becoming-the-norm
Money quote: "On the first weekday of every month, a thread called “Who is hiring” is posted on Hacker News, a news-aggregation website popular with programmers. Hundreds of companies, from one-person operations to trillion-dollar corporations, submit listings. Most of them are based in America, although startup hubs such as Berlin or London are popular as well. According to an analysis by The Economist, only 13% of the jobs posted in the thread in 2011 mentioned remote work. In 2021, more than 75% do"
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/08/11/for-programmers-remote-working-is-becoming-the-norm
The Economist
For programmers, remote working is becoming the norm
Tech workers were ditching the office before the pandemic
A proposito di lavoro remoto: sto finendo mostly weekly, la mia newsletter che esce domani. Vi potete iscrivere qua. La nuova versione è sempre gratuita
https://antoniodini.com/iscrizione/
https://antoniodini.com/iscrizione/
Mostly Here
Iscrizione
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Editore USA abbandona la carta e offre iPad a migliaia di abbonati https://www.macitynet.it/chattanooga-times-abbandona-la-carta-e-offre-ipad-a-migliaia-di-abbonati/
macitynet.it
Editore USA abbandona la carta e offre iPad a migliaia di abbonati
iPad
Ci lamentiamo più del dovuto del lavoro che viene fatto in Italia, particolarmente a Roma ma anche nel resto del Paese, per trovare e preservare i resti archeologici di un tempo perduto. Guardate la terribile bellezza della situazione di Istambul.
Money quote: "Throughout Istanbul, there are clues to how residents of the Byzantine capital lived, worked in and built their city. These blend in with the current surroundings: The ruins of an ancient Roman bathhouse frame the boiler room of a modern office building. A 6th century cistern with blinding-white columns serves as a jewelers' workshop, with machinery to etch out silver necklaces and rings. ("The ventilation isn't great," says the owner, "but it stays warm in the winter and cool in the summer.") And the shell of a small church — reachable by ladder — sits beneath the basement of a hookah bar.
After Ozgumus completed a 13-year archeological survey of Istanbul's historic peninsula in 2010, younger scholars have continued his work, adding hundreds of sites to the public record."
https://www.npr.org/2021/07/23/1016814868/beneath-istanbul-archaeologists-explore-an-ancient-citys-byzantine-basements
Money quote: "Throughout Istanbul, there are clues to how residents of the Byzantine capital lived, worked in and built their city. These blend in with the current surroundings: The ruins of an ancient Roman bathhouse frame the boiler room of a modern office building. A 6th century cistern with blinding-white columns serves as a jewelers' workshop, with machinery to etch out silver necklaces and rings. ("The ventilation isn't great," says the owner, "but it stays warm in the winter and cool in the summer.") And the shell of a small church — reachable by ladder — sits beneath the basement of a hookah bar.
After Ozgumus completed a 13-year archeological survey of Istanbul's historic peninsula in 2010, younger scholars have continued his work, adding hundreds of sites to the public record."
https://www.npr.org/2021/07/23/1016814868/beneath-istanbul-archaeologists-explore-an-ancient-citys-byzantine-basements
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I migliori libri su Dante Alighieri e la Divina Commedia https://www.macitynet.it/i-migliori-libri-su-dante-alighieri-e-la-divina-commedia/
macitynet.it
I migliori libri su Dante Alighieri e la Divina Commedia
ebook, Libri
Raccontare la storia di Alvy Ray Smith vuol dire raccontare la storia di Pixar ma anche quella dell'invenzione della grafica, del video e delle animazioni digitali. Vuol dire raccontare la storia di un modo di vedere.
Money quote: "Call it restraint. “As far as history goes, I feel like he got shafted, both in Pixar history and in computer graphics history in general,” says Pam Kerwin, a former Pixar colleague. “Everything that you currently use in Photoshop right now basically came from Alvy.” Even self-driving cars and augmented reality, “which are all about image processing, machine vision ... Alvy and his colleagues brought all that stuff into the world.”"
https://www.wired.com/story/pixar-animation-alvy-ray-smith-pixel/
Money quote: "Call it restraint. “As far as history goes, I feel like he got shafted, both in Pixar history and in computer graphics history in general,” says Pam Kerwin, a former Pixar colleague. “Everything that you currently use in Photoshop right now basically came from Alvy.” Even self-driving cars and augmented reality, “which are all about image processing, machine vision ... Alvy and his colleagues brought all that stuff into the world.”"
https://www.wired.com/story/pixar-animation-alvy-ray-smith-pixel/
WIRED
Meet the Little-Known Genius Who Helped Make Pixar Possible
Alvy Ray Smith helped invent computer animation as we know it—then got royally shafted by Steve Jobs. Now he’s got a vision for where the pixel will take us next.
Sette libri per conoscere meglio Dante - il mio articolo per Anobii
https://blog.anobii.com/it/2021/09/14/sette-libri-per-conoscere-meglio-dante/
https://blog.anobii.com/it/2021/09/14/sette-libri-per-conoscere-meglio-dante/
Anobii Blog
Sette libri per conoscere meglio Dante - Anobii Blog
Nell'anniversario della morte del poeta fiorentino, qualche piccolo consiglio ragionato di lettura
La storia delle moderne macchine fotografiche con il rullino di pellicola da 35 mm, che poi è diventato il sensore "full frame" (anche se ai tempi era definito il "piccolo formato") è legata a un uomo solo e alla sua particolare condizione fisica. La racconto qui
Money quote: "Barnack era malato: soffriva di asma acuta, che lo aveva reso invalido. Nonostante questo, l’uomo amava la vita all'aria aperta: il suo hobby preferito era la fotografia, ma l'asma gli impediva di portare con sé le fotocamere in legno per il grande formato "da campagna" e tutta l'attrezzatura necessaria (a partire dal cavalletto) che i fotografi del tempo utilizzavano.
Da uomo ingegnoso qual era, Barnack creò una piccola macchina fotografica che utilizzava dei piccoli rullini di pellicola e che poteva essere trasportata più facilmente durante le escursioni in montagna."
https://antoniodini.com/leica-invenzione-fotocamera/
Money quote: "Barnack era malato: soffriva di asma acuta, che lo aveva reso invalido. Nonostante questo, l’uomo amava la vita all'aria aperta: il suo hobby preferito era la fotografia, ma l'asma gli impediva di portare con sé le fotocamere in legno per il grande formato "da campagna" e tutta l'attrezzatura necessaria (a partire dal cavalletto) che i fotografi del tempo utilizzavano.
Da uomo ingegnoso qual era, Barnack creò una piccola macchina fotografica che utilizzava dei piccoli rullini di pellicola e che poteva essere trasportata più facilmente durante le escursioni in montagna."
https://antoniodini.com/leica-invenzione-fotocamera/
Mostly Here
Leica e l'invenzione della fotocamera
Se ve lo siete mai chiesti, l'inventore della macchina fotografica così come la conosciamo si chiama Oskar Barnack
Anobii si sta finendo di trasformare: comincia una vera Vita Nova
https://blog.anobii.com/it/2021/09/13/la-vita-nova-di-anobii/
https://blog.anobii.com/it/2021/09/13/la-vita-nova-di-anobii/
Ci credete ai pianeti abitabili? Il più grande problema è arrivarci per verificare e toccare con mano. Questo, dopo venti anni, sembra un buon candidato.
Money quote: "That data, combined with archival data from colleagues going back 20 years, confirmed the presence of two orbiting super-Earths sized planets, i.e., planets which have a mass greater than the Earth’s but substantially below those of our local ice giants Uranus and Neptune."
https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/close-and-tranquil-solar-system-has-astronomers-excited/
Money quote: "That data, combined with archival data from colleagues going back 20 years, confirmed the presence of two orbiting super-Earths sized planets, i.e., planets which have a mass greater than the Earth’s but substantially below those of our local ice giants Uranus and Neptune."
https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/close-and-tranquil-solar-system-has-astronomers-excited/
astrobiology.nasa.gov
NASA Astrobiology
Close and Tranquil Solar System Has Astronomers Excited
La storia degli scacchi moderni dal punto di vista degli scacchi stessi. Cioè: perché i pezzi sono fatti come sono fatti? Beh, c'è una storia da leggere, davvero notevole.
Money quote: "The story of how the Staunton chess set came into being has become something of a legend. Like many legends the true facts are debated and there is more than one version of exactly what happened during those fateful days of 1849. There were three key people involved, Howard Staunton, Nathaniel Cook and John Jaques."
https://www.stauntonchesssets.com/staunton_history.html
Money quote: "The story of how the Staunton chess set came into being has become something of a legend. Like many legends the true facts are debated and there is more than one version of exactly what happened during those fateful days of 1849. There were three key people involved, Howard Staunton, Nathaniel Cook and John Jaques."
https://www.stauntonchesssets.com/staunton_history.html
Stauntonchesssets
The History Of The Staunton Chessmen
The story of how the Staunton chess set came into being and the legend behind its humble beginnings.
C'è un che di folle nella società industriale. Uno degli aspetti più folli degli altri è l'omologazione. E l'idea che quello che va bene per un uomo vada bene per tutti (poi gli elitisti dicono l'opposto, ma di quello parliamo un'altra volta). Qual è il ragionamento di fondo? Beh, che per alcuni il lavoro è una missione, per altri una fatica per portare i soldi a casa e fare altro. L'idea di fondo della settimana lavorativa standard allora è veramente strana, no?
Money quote: "Today, we assume the forty-hour week without thanking the generations of socialists and unionists in the Eight-hour-day movement, whose struggle started around 1817 and didn’t bear global fruit until the middle of the twentieth century. ¶
But there’s nothing axiomatic about forty hours. Twenty years ago, France introduced a 35-hour workweek. Their economy still functions. And John Maynard Keynes, approximately the most influential economist in the history of the world, predicted his grandchildren would enjoy a 15-hour workweek. It seems he was wrong. But maybe only partly.
And of course Keynes himself worked like a madman. As did I, for most of my career. Because some jobs are just jobs, but others are vocations; people doing what they love, and who’d really rather be working than not. Nothing wrong with that."
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/07/05/Too-Efficient
Money quote: "Today, we assume the forty-hour week without thanking the generations of socialists and unionists in the Eight-hour-day movement, whose struggle started around 1817 and didn’t bear global fruit until the middle of the twentieth century. ¶
But there’s nothing axiomatic about forty hours. Twenty years ago, France introduced a 35-hour workweek. Their economy still functions. And John Maynard Keynes, approximately the most influential economist in the history of the world, predicted his grandchildren would enjoy a 15-hour workweek. It seems he was wrong. But maybe only partly.
And of course Keynes himself worked like a madman. As did I, for most of my career. Because some jobs are just jobs, but others are vocations; people doing what they love, and who’d really rather be working than not. Nothing wrong with that."
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/07/05/Too-Efficient
In California hanno fatto una legge per vietare lattò di togliersi il preservativo "alla vigliacca" cioè fare "stealthing". Io sono vecchio e quindi mi mancano proprio i riferimenti culturali per capire, ma il New Yorker lo spiega meglio.
Money quote: "How one Yale Law School student’s 2017 article addressing nonconsensual condom removal—an act known slangily as “stealthing”—sparked a viral debate that led to California’s recent bill to make the act illegal."
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-meaning-of-californias-anti-stealthing-bill
Money quote: "How one Yale Law School student’s 2017 article addressing nonconsensual condom removal—an act known slangily as “stealthing”—sparked a viral debate that led to California’s recent bill to make the act illegal."
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-meaning-of-californias-anti-stealthing-bill
The New Yorker
The Meaning of California’s Bill Against Nonconsensual Condom Removal
The civil-rights attorney Alexandra Brodsky discusses how legislation banning so-called stealthing could expand understandings of sexual assault.
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Come mostrare il Green Pass con Siri e Comandi Rapidi su iPhone e iPad https://www.macitynet.it/come-mostrare-il-green-pass-con-siri-e-comandi-rapidi-su-iphone-e-ipad/
macitynet.it
Come mostrare il Green Pass con Siri e Comandi Rapidi su iPhone e iPad
Accessori iPhone, Apple, Coronavirus, IPhone, Siri, Tutorial iPhone e iPad, Tutorial Mac
General Electric, oggi nota come GE, è nata nel 1892 grazie a Thomas Edison. È stata uno dei più grandi agglomerati negli Usa, poi negli ultimi anni ha cercato di svoltare verso il software ed è stato un disastro.
Money quote: "To Mr. Immelt, the future of industrial companies was in software and hard-core computing. Even now, that vision is widely considered to be correct and other industrial company leaders, including those who laughed at GE initially, are increasingly following the same path."
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-dimming-of-ges-bold-digital-dreams-11595044802?mod=djemalertNEWS
Money quote: "To Mr. Immelt, the future of industrial companies was in software and hard-core computing. Even now, that vision is widely considered to be correct and other industrial company leaders, including those who laughed at GE initially, are increasingly following the same path."
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-dimming-of-ges-bold-digital-dreams-11595044802?mod=djemalertNEWS
WSJ
The Dimming of GE’s Bold Digital Dreams
The industrial giant hoped to remake itself as a software powerhouse. Here’s what went wrong.
Negli USA hanno appena tradotto "Come si scrive una tesi di laurea. Se ne occupa anche il New Yorker. E noi ce lo ricordiamo ancora?
Money your: "“How to Write a Thesis,” then, isn’t just about fulfilling a degree requirement. It’s also about engaging difference and attempting a project that is seemingly impossible, humbly reckoning with “the knowledge that anyone can teach us something.” It models a kind of self-actualization, a belief in the integrity of one’s own voice."
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/a-guide-to-thesis-writing-that-is-a-guide-to-life
Money your: "“How to Write a Thesis,” then, isn’t just about fulfilling a degree requirement. It’s also about engaging difference and attempting a project that is seemingly impossible, humbly reckoning with “the knowledge that anyone can teach us something.” It models a kind of self-actualization, a belief in the integrity of one’s own voice."
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/a-guide-to-thesis-writing-that-is-a-guide-to-life
The New Yorker
A Guide to Thesis Writing and a Guide to Life
Writing and research manuals like Umberto Eco’s “How to Write a Thesis” offer a vision of our best selves, Hua Hsu wrote, in 2015.
Secondo me Zoom è il male (solo Teams è peggio). E gli effetti dell'uso di di Zoom lo dimostrano, oltre alle intenzioni di chi lo ha messo al mondo, per così dire. Dopo, c'è l'inferno.
(ho fatto troppe call in questi giorni, lo ammetto)
Money quote: "“What happened with a pandemic is interesting,” Zoom’s chief product officer Odel Gal told me. “All the people that were resistant to using the technology were forced to use it.”"
https://www.vox.com/recode/21314793/zoom-fatigue-video-chat-facebook-google-meet-microsoft-teams
(ho fatto troppe call in questi giorni, lo ammetto)
Money quote: "“What happened with a pandemic is interesting,” Zoom’s chief product officer Odel Gal told me. “All the people that were resistant to using the technology were forced to use it.”"
https://www.vox.com/recode/21314793/zoom-fatigue-video-chat-facebook-google-meet-microsoft-teams
Vox
What comes after Zoom fatigue
It looks like we’re stuck with video chat. Is that such a bad thing?
Espressioni regolari? Abbracciamo il potere di Awk
Money quote: "The Power of awk
I love awk. Its assumptions and defaults make parsing files very easy, and because of the way it's built, and awk programs run much faster than their Perl, Python or Ruby counterparts.
Awk's easy to learn."
http://www.troubleshooters.com/codecorn/awk/index.htm
Money quote: "The Power of awk
I love awk. Its assumptions and defaults make parsing files very easy, and because of the way it's built, and awk programs run much faster than their Perl, Python or Ruby counterparts.
Awk's easy to learn."
http://www.troubleshooters.com/codecorn/awk/index.htm
Troubleshooters
Steve's Awk Acadamy
Using awk to parse files and streams