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L’estate è il momento migliore per fare esperimenti ed esplorazioni. Per questo sono tornato ad esplorare Linux e *BSD come possibili strumenti di lavoro più leggeri, ad esempio per quando sono in viaggio (ammesso che si tornerà a viaggare, un giorno). Sono ambienti in cui sono molto meno produttivo che con macOS (lo so per esperienza) ma quando ho riflettutto su quanto invece io sia realmente produttivo con l'iPad Pro ha ridotto la distanza con Unix. E così, leggiucchiando in giro, sto trovando un po' di storie di gente che passa a Linux o *BSD. Ma è possibile che siano ancora/di nuovo delle alternative sensata per il dekstop o è solo una mia idea? Beh, comunque, questo ragazzetto qui sotto è passato a FreeBSD (bella scelta) e tiene Windows 10 al calduccio in una macchina virtuale. Contento lui.

Money quote: "My line of work requires me to maintain some form of Windows installation, so I decided to keep it in a VM rather than dual booting as I was developing code and not running any high-end visual stuff like games. My first thought was to install Arch or Gentoo Linux, but the last time I attempted a Gentoo installation it left me bootless. Not that there is anything wrong with Gentoo, it was probably my fault, but I like the idea of some sort of installer so I looked at rock-solid Debian. My dad had installed Debian on his sweet new cutting-edge Lenovo laptop he received recently from work. He often raves about his cool scripts and much more effective customized experience, but often complains about his hybrid GPU support as he has an Intel/Nvidia hybrid display adapter (he has finally resolved it and now boasts his 6 connected displays).

I didn’t want to install Windows again, but something didn’t feel right about installing some flavour of Linux. Back at home I have a small collection of FreeBSD servers running in all sorts of jails and other physical hardware, with the exception of one Debian server which I had the hardest time dealing with (it would be FreeBSD too if 802.11ac support was there as it is acting as my WiFi/gateway/IDS/IPS). I loved my FreeBSD servers, and yes I will write posts about each one soon enough. I wanted that cleanliness and familiarity on my desktop as well (I really love the ports collection!). It’s settled – I will run FreeBSD on my laptop. This also created a new rivalry with my father, which is not a bad thing either."

https://www.manios.ca/blog/2018/01/finally-moving-away-from-windows/
A quanto pare ci sono problemi con il link precedente. Passando dall’Internet archive dovrebbe funzionare
Ci sono delle cose che gli architetti debbono sapere. Alcune belle, altre strane, molte surreali, spesso sorprendenti. Una lista intrigante.

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49. What went wrong in Fatehpur Sikri.
50. What went wrong in Pruitt-Igoe.
51. What went wrong with the Tacoma Narrows Bridge.
52. Where the CCTV cameras are.
53. Why Mies really left Germany.
54. How people lived in Çatal Hüyük.
55. The structural properties of tufa.

https://www.readingdesign.org/250-things
E pensare che era rallentato il tasso di connessione a Internet: prima del lockdown la gente si connette meno. C'è un incastro (o più di uno) da risolvere. Le cause e le conseguenze sono vitali.

Money quote: "Had growth rates held steady near the 11% average for 2005 to 2017, more than half a billion extra people would now be online. Of the 3.8 billion who remain unconnected, an alarming proportion are women. In poor urban areas, men can outnumber women on the internet as much as two to one."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/oct/18/exclusive-dramatic-slowdown-in-global-growth-of-the-internet
Note sulle proprietà degli inchiostri delle penne stilografiche.

Money quote: "Fountain pen ink is basically water with colorant and other chemicals required for proper functioning. Each manufacturer has their own formula."

https://crlf.site/log/notes/200430-inks/
Il nuovo servizio di posta Hey è diventato famigerato per le ragioni sbagliate: la polemica con Apple sulla tassa dell'App Store, il desiderio di reinventare il modo con il quale gestiamo la posta. Ne scrivo domani sul Foglio Innovazione. Ma in realtà c'è anche tutto il discorso relativo all'uso delle tecnologie. Perché fare un servizio di posta elettronica adesso è molto diverso da quando bastava installare "sendmail" su un server Unix. Anzi, totalmente.

Money quote: "We didn’t jump into the cloud 10 years ago just because it was cool, it felt like we were comparatively late to adopt Kubernetes, we don’t use a service mesh. We’ve let these technologies mature, and now we’re getting real value."

https://info.acloud.guru/resources/kubernetes-aws-cloud-scaling-hey
Se volete fare una immersione nella mente di uno dei più importanti sviluppatori (ha creato Mosaic) e venture capitalist, questa intervista a Marc Andreessen fa al caso vostro.

Money quote: "Q: You're waking up on Monday morning, or on a Sunday night, you're looking at this [[your calendar]], what are you thinking?

A: I’m thinking “God, I’m organized! I have a plan!”. If I didn’t have this, I’d be in a panic the very first moment I wake up."

https://www.theobservereffect.org/marc.html
I vincitori scrivono la storia e dei perdenti si capisce qualcosa solo leggendo e mettendo assieme i frammenti. Come quelli dei filosofi greci e romani, i pagani cioè, che criticavano come assurdo il cristianesimo tutto e la Genesi nell'Antico Testamento soprattutto.

Money quote: "According to Julian, Moses’ cosmogony is incomplete. Darkness, the deep and the waters are not said to have been created (God did not say: ‘Let there be darkness’ etc), so they must have been pre-existent. The fact that angels are not mentioned implies that Moses’ God did not create spiritual beings. For Julian, Moses’ God was nothing but an ‘arranger’ of preexisting, non-created matter. Hence he cannot have been the Supreme God, who is the ultimate creator of all things. On other points as well, Julian argues that Plato’s Timaeus makes much more sense as a cosmogony than Genesis 1."

https://aeon.co/essays/why-would-apollo-make-positive-statements-about-judaism
Una storia strana. Questo startupparo ha fatto una azienda di successo, ma ha venduto al primo giro di finanziamenti: era il 2004 e ha venduto ad Yahoo la sua Del.icio.us. Forse ha fatto un brutto sbaglio. L'autore/imprenditore ci riflette, mentre si accredita anche il merito di aver inventato le tag.

Money quote: "The day we signed, Yahoo’s Jeff Weiner was in New York and came to talk to us. It was me and my COO, Albert Wenger. We were in this unmemorable conference room of an investment bank that was helping us a little bit, making introductions — we were too small-fry to actually deal with. We took a few minutes, and then signed on the spot.

We went with Yahoo partially because it was the first company to make a real offer, but also because it had already started a major push into Web 2.0. It had already acquired Flickr; it had acquired Upcoming — it felt like it was trying to make a big change in what it did."

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/10/did-i-make-a-mistake-selling-del-icio-us-to-yahoo.html