Oggi Steve Jobs avrebbe compiuto 66 anni: "smart but directionless"

Money quote: “Born in 1955 to two University of Wisconsin graduate students who gave him up for adoption, Jobs was smart but directionless, dropping out of college and experimenting with different pursuits before co-founding Apple with Steve Wozniak in 1976. Jobs left the company in 1985, launching Pixar Animation Studios, then returned to Apple more than a decade later. Jobs died in 2011 following a long battle with pancreatic cancer.“

https://www.biography.com/business-figure/steve-jobs

Ho usato il Mini Disc per lavoro e l'ho adorato. Mi piacerebbe averne uno, anche se mi rendo conto che è attuale come un Commodore 64. Forse un po' di più, ma mica tanto. Però era bellissimo

Money quote: "When digital music began to dominate, MD faded away with its niche no longer needed. MDs were unable to match CD’s quality for tangible media—though, the gap has closed in more recent years.

While Sony stopped selling MD players in 2013, it continues to make blank MDs and support its Mini-Disc players. Teac is currently the only Japanese company making and selling MD players."

https://kotaku.com/japan-hasnt-given-up-on-the-mini-disc-just-yet-1831454992

Se ne è andato il padre di tutti i poeti

Il fantasy Made in Cividale del Friuli - il mio articolo per Anobii

https://blog.anobii.com/it/2021/02/16/il-fantasy-made-in-cividale-del-friuli/

Abbandono di minore. C'è un lato del reato al quale non si pensa, e che è profondamente discutibile

Money quote: "I didn't think too much more about it, but then a month later a Child and Family Services worker showed up. I was busy in the kitchen -- I was canning or something. He said he was from CFS and a complaint had come in. And I realized right away what he was talking about. It was a stranger interaction than I'd had with the woman. If people are watching out for kids in the neighborhood, I think that's great! But this wasn't a helpful interaction, it was more suspicious and accusatory. So I said, "I think I know what you're referring to. Let me explain the situation. I was watching where they were going, it was to a familiar place," and all that. And he said, "Yeah. I know. But you can't let them do that. Things can happen. They can get kidnapped.""

https://letgrow.org/mom-lets-her-kids-walk-to-the-bakery-down-the-block-child-protective-services-tells-her-never-again-till-they-are-12/

Caterina Emili: I polimeri di Olimpia - il mio articolo per Anobii

https://blog.anobii.com/it/2021/02/23/caterina-emili-i-polimeri-di-olimpia/

Grazie a una gentile lettrice ho scoperto che l’articolo è stato cambiato e la storia è praticamente evaporata. Per fortuna c’è la copia nella cache di Google

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:XjdCrG8_Vm0J:https://letgrow.org/mom-lets-her-kids-walk-to-the-bakery-down-the-block-child-protective-services-tells-her-never-again-till-they-are-12&hl=it&gl=it&strip=1&vwsrc=0

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