Fotografare i fiocchi di neve. Questo tizio, uno dei milioni e milioni di tizi su internet, con una macchina fotografica economica e un secondo obiettivo russo di risulta da pochi soldi, fa delle foto spettacolari. Davvero spettacolari.
Money quote: “Currently, i use low cost variation of well-known lens reversal macro technique: compact camera Canon Powershot A650is at maximum optical zoom (6x) shoots through lens Helios 44M-5 (taken from old film camera Zenit, made in USSR), reversely mounted in front of built-in camera optics. Compared to Canon A650 standard macro mode, this simple setup achieves much better magnification and details, lesser chromatic aberrations and blurring at image corners, but also very shallow depth of field”
https://chaoticmind75.blogspot.com/2013/08/my-technique-for-snowflakes-shooting.html
Money quote: “Currently, i use low cost variation of well-known lens reversal macro technique: compact camera Canon Powershot A650is at maximum optical zoom (6x) shoots through lens Helios 44M-5 (taken from old film camera Zenit, made in USSR), reversely mounted in front of built-in camera optics. Compared to Canon A650 standard macro mode, this simple setup achieves much better magnification and details, lesser chromatic aberrations and blurring at image corners, but also very shallow depth of field”
https://chaoticmind75.blogspot.com/2013/08/my-technique-for-snowflakes-shooting.html
Blogspot
Snowflake macro photography
Snowflake macro photography: how to take closeup images of real snow crystals with simple optical add-on for compact camera? In this article, you'll find detailed description of shooting and photo processing techniques, scheme of optical add-on, snowflake…
L’intervista al CEO di Google, Sundar Pichai, è molto, molto buona: tecnologia, tasse, uguaglianza dei generi, protezione dei dati, come creare il futuro. Bravo Guardian, lettura veramente ricca. Non so però se l’apertura dell’articolo sia pensata per creare simpatia per la vita preistorica in India trent’anni fa: a me sembra l’Italia di inizio duemila...
Money quote: “hen Sundar Pichai was growing up in Chennai, south-east India, he had to make regular trips to the hospital to pick up his mother’s blood-test results. It took an hour and 20 minutes by bus, and when he got there he would have to stand and queue for an hour, often to be told the results weren’t ready.
It took five years for his family to get their first rotary telephone, when Pichai was 12. It was a landmark moment. “It would take me 10 minutes to call the hospital, and maybe they’d tell me, ‘No, come back tomorrow’,” Pichai says. “We waited a long time to get a refrigerator, too, and I saw how my mom’s life changed: she didn’t need to cook every day, she could spend more time with us. So there is a side of me that has viscerally seen how technology can make a difference, and I still feel it. I feel the optimism and energy, and the moral imperative to accelerate that progress.””
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/07/google-boss-sundar-pichai-tax-gender-equality-data-protection-jemima-kiss
Money quote: “hen Sundar Pichai was growing up in Chennai, south-east India, he had to make regular trips to the hospital to pick up his mother’s blood-test results. It took an hour and 20 minutes by bus, and when he got there he would have to stand and queue for an hour, often to be told the results weren’t ready.
It took five years for his family to get their first rotary telephone, when Pichai was 12. It was a landmark moment. “It would take me 10 minutes to call the hospital, and maybe they’d tell me, ‘No, come back tomorrow’,” Pichai says. “We waited a long time to get a refrigerator, too, and I saw how my mom’s life changed: she didn’t need to cook every day, she could spend more time with us. So there is a side of me that has viscerally seen how technology can make a difference, and I still feel it. I feel the optimism and energy, and the moral imperative to accelerate that progress.””
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/07/google-boss-sundar-pichai-tax-gender-equality-data-protection-jemima-kiss
the Guardian
Google CEO Sundar Pichai: 'I don't know whether humans want change that fast'
From artificial intelligence to cheap smartphones, Google is on the frontline of technological development. But is it growing too big and moving too fast? A rare interview with Google’s boss
Amazon rilancia con il nuovo Kindle Oasis resistente all’acqua - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/kindle-oasis-resistente-allacqua/
https://www.macitynet.it/kindle-oasis-resistente-allacqua/
Macitynet.it
Amazon rilancia con il nuovo Kindle Oasis resistente all’acqua - Macitynet.it
nuovo Kindle Oasis offre schermo Paperwhite più ampio da 7" con risoluzione di 300 ppi ed è impermeabile. Si può già ordinare con consegna il 31 ottobre
Hanno i terminali, hanno la rete, ma non hanno le prese elettriche per ricaricare i telefonini. L’Africa e l’Asia stanno vivendo un altro paradosso che definirà il modo nel quale si svilupperà l’innovazione in quei mercati.
Money quote: “While delivering the next billion smartphones to first-time customers is relatively easy, finding ways to charge them is not, because many people in developing countries lack reliable access to electricity. Solving this problem will challenge the rich world’s assumptions about what services should be provided by which kinds of network companies.
In most countries where people lack reliable access to electricity, they have better access to a 3G or better cellular network. This means the smartphone -- and its business, social and entertainment uses -- will create greater demand for electricity.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-10-06/the-challenge-to-keep-the-world-s-smartphones-charging
Money quote: “While delivering the next billion smartphones to first-time customers is relatively easy, finding ways to charge them is not, because many people in developing countries lack reliable access to electricity. Solving this problem will challenge the rich world’s assumptions about what services should be provided by which kinds of network companies.
In most countries where people lack reliable access to electricity, they have better access to a 3G or better cellular network. This means the smartphone -- and its business, social and entertainment uses -- will create greater demand for electricity.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-10-06/the-challenge-to-keep-the-world-s-smartphones-charging
Bloomberg.com
The Challenge to Keep the World's Smartphones Charging
Millions of people in developing countries have access to networks — but not electricity. Some would call that a big opportunity.
Due errori che Apple non doveva concedersi - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/due-errori-apple-non-doveva-concedersi/
https://www.macitynet.it/due-errori-apple-non-doveva-concedersi/
Macitynet.it
Due errori che Apple non doveva concedersi - Macitynet.it
Sbagliano tutti quanti, anche i migliori. E Apple, da questo punto di vista, non si risparmia. Ad esempio, con sbagli che potrebbero costarle cari
Forwarded from Fumettologica
La scalata al successo di Robert Kirkman, i perché della sua popolarità e come ha rivoluzionato il fumetto e l'entertainment statunitense. L'articolo di Evil Monkey:
http://www.fumettologica.it/2017/10/robert-kirkman/
http://www.fumettologica.it/2017/10/robert-kirkman/
Fumettologica
Robert Kirkman ci salverà, lo ha promesso
Da semplice scrittore di fumetti, Robert Kirkman è riuscito a costruire un impero multimilionario a colpi di franchising, a partire da The Walking Dead.
Le prime mille formule di Homebrew. Una lista che fotografa alcuni mesi di utilizzo del repository e sistema di distribuzione che ha completamente cambiato il mio modo di usare il Mac e la riga di comando. Qual è la formula che è stata scaricata di più? Quante volte?
Le prime tre: node, git e wget; il mio vim è in 17ma posizione. Macvim molto, molto più in giù.
https://brew.sh/analytics/install-on-request/
Le prime tre: node, git e wget; il mio vim è in 17ma posizione. Macvim molto, molto più in giù.
https://brew.sh/analytics/install-on-request/
homebrew.github.io
Homebrew Analytics Install On Request Events
The missing package manager for macOS.
Richard Branson ha scritto una autobiografia intitolata “My Virginity”, sull’idea di affrontare sempre nuove sfide. In questo caso Hyperloop, il treno ad aria compressa e levitazione magnetica.
Money quote: “Delighted to announce Virgin Group’s investment in Hyperloop One – the world’s most revolutionary train service. This is an incredibly innovative and exciting new way to move people and things at airline speeds on the ground. At the same time we have also agreed to rebrand the company as Virgin Hyperloop One”
https://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/introducing-virgin-hyperloop-one-worlds-most-revolutionary-train-service
Money quote: “Delighted to announce Virgin Group’s investment in Hyperloop One – the world’s most revolutionary train service. This is an incredibly innovative and exciting new way to move people and things at airline speeds on the ground. At the same time we have also agreed to rebrand the company as Virgin Hyperloop One”
https://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/introducing-virgin-hyperloop-one-worlds-most-revolutionary-train-service
Virgin
Introducing Virgin Hyperloop One – the world’s most revolutionary train service
Dentro Qualcomm a San Diego: il costo di chip e tecnologie è per l’innovazione - il mio articolo per Macity dalla città californiana.
https://www.macitynet.it/qualcomm-la-voglia-innovare/
https://www.macitynet.it/qualcomm-la-voglia-innovare/
Macitynet.it
Dentro Qualcomm a San Diego: il costo di chip e tecnologie è per l’innovazione - Macitynet.it
La causa con Apple, le multe degli antitrust, un business enorme con i chip dei telefonini. Ma qual è la verità su Qualcomm? Siamo andati a vedere nella mega sede di San Diego
Rientrato a Milano. Ma mi fermo poco in città. Intanto, qui su Mostly continuiamo con tranquillità a pubblicare cose. Se vi capita, segnalatelo a qualche amico/a che potrebbe essere interessato. È gratuito! Grazie!
La guerra dei bike sharing in Cina. Mamma mia...
Money quote: “Start-ups have flooded the city with shared bikes, he complained, and people have been leaving them all over the place without thinking about other residents. “There’s no sense of decency anymore,” he muttered, picking up the discarded bike and heaving it into the air in anger. “We treat each other like enemies.”
There are now more than 16 million shared bicycles on the road in China’s traffic-clogged cities, thanks to a fierce battle for market share among 70-plus companies backed by a total of more than $1 billion in financing. These start-ups have reshaped the urban landscape, putting bikes equipped with GPS and digital locks on almost every street corner in a way that Silicon Valley can only dream of.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/02/world/asia/china-beijing-dockless-bike-share.html
Money quote: “Start-ups have flooded the city with shared bikes, he complained, and people have been leaving them all over the place without thinking about other residents. “There’s no sense of decency anymore,” he muttered, picking up the discarded bike and heaving it into the air in anger. “We treat each other like enemies.”
There are now more than 16 million shared bicycles on the road in China’s traffic-clogged cities, thanks to a fierce battle for market share among 70-plus companies backed by a total of more than $1 billion in financing. These start-ups have reshaped the urban landscape, putting bikes equipped with GPS and digital locks on almost every street corner in a way that Silicon Valley can only dream of.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/02/world/asia/china-beijing-dockless-bike-share.html
NY Times
As Bike-Sharing Brings Out Bad Manners, China Asks, What’s Wrong With Us?
The popularity of shared-use bikes has brought a wave of misbehavior, raising questions about social decay and the decline of decorum.
Dedicato al mio amico Roberto e a tutti quelli con un super cervello perennemente fuori giri.
Money quote: “For Pinker, the root cause of so much bad writing is what he calls "the Curse of Knowledge", which he defines as "a difficulty in imagining what it is like for someone else not to know something that you know. The curse of knowledge is the single best explanation I know of why good people write bad prose."”
https://www.inc.com/glenn-leibowitz/the-single-reason-why-people-cant-write-according-.html
Ps: in realtà da noi si scrive male anche per eccessiva ignoranza: il “tardo burocratico” degli uffici postali o delle caserme dell’Arma è un classico. Però...
Money quote: “For Pinker, the root cause of so much bad writing is what he calls "the Curse of Knowledge", which he defines as "a difficulty in imagining what it is like for someone else not to know something that you know. The curse of knowledge is the single best explanation I know of why good people write bad prose."”
https://www.inc.com/glenn-leibowitz/the-single-reason-why-people-cant-write-according-.html
Ps: in realtà da noi si scrive male anche per eccessiva ignoranza: il “tardo burocratico” degli uffici postali o delle caserme dell’Arma è un classico. Però...
Inc.com
The Single Reason Why People Can't Write, According to a Harvard Psychologist
This common affliction is behind so much unclear and confusing writing in the world today.
Una bomba. Quando parliamo di trasformazione digitale pensiamo soprattutto al mondo degli affari ma è il mutamento dei processi m sociali quello realmente coinvolto. La rivista del MIT, la Technology Review, prende il toro per le corna della famiglia e spiega che probabilmente la trasformazione a cui stiamo assistendo con sempre crescente consapevolezza è molto più profonda e significativa di quel che pensavamo. Cambia la famiglia e la stessa idea di relazione affettiva. Altro che legami forti e deboli: questo sono legami nuovi.
Money quote: "Online dating has changed that. Today, online dating is the second most common way for heterosexual couples to meet. For homosexual couples, it is far and away the most popular.
That has significant implications. “People who meet online tend to be complete strangers,” say Ortega and Hergovich. And when people meet in this way, it sets up social links that were previously nonexistent."
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609091/first-evidence-that-online-dating-is-changing-the-nature-of-society/
Money quote: "Online dating has changed that. Today, online dating is the second most common way for heterosexual couples to meet. For homosexual couples, it is far and away the most popular.
That has significant implications. “People who meet online tend to be complete strangers,” say Ortega and Hergovich. And when people meet in this way, it sets up social links that were previously nonexistent."
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609091/first-evidence-that-online-dating-is-changing-the-nature-of-society/
MIT Technology Review
First Evidence That Online Dating Is Changing the Nature of Society
Not so long ago, nobody met a partner online. Then, in the 1990s, came the first dating websites. Match.com went live in 1995. A new wave of dating websites, such as OKCupid, emerged in the early 2000s. And the 2012 arrival of Tinder changed dating even further.…
Tim Cook a Firenze, al via l’evento - il primo dei miei articoli per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/tim-cook-firenze-al-via-levento/
https://www.macitynet.it/tim-cook-firenze-al-via-levento/
Macitynet.it
Tim Cook a Firenze, al via l’evento - Macitynet.it
Il Ceo sul palco dei cinema Odeon con i ragazzi del progetto un quotidiano in classe. La giornata toscana del numro uno di Apple entra nel vivo
Tim Cook e l'eredità di Steve Jobs “Non abbiate paura di fallire, perché passerà” - il secondo dei miei articoli per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/tim-cook-leredita-steve-jobs-non-abbiate-paura-fallire-perche-passera/
https://www.macitynet.it/tim-cook-leredita-steve-jobs-non-abbiate-paura-fallire-perche-passera/
Macitynet.it
Tim Cook e l'eredità di Steve Jobs “non abbiate paura di fallire, perché passerà” - Macitynet.it
Niente è definitivo. La risposta a una delle più belle domande degli studenti di Andrea Ceccherini tocca anche la responsabilità di aver preso le redini di Apple da Steve Jobs e come si affrontano le crisi nella vita
Tim Cook a Firenze: “Abbiate il coraggio del fallimento, passerà" - il terzo articolo per Macity (e altri ancora seguiranno...)
https://www.macitynet.it/tim-cook-firenze-abbiate-coraggio-del-fallimento-passera/
https://www.macitynet.it/tim-cook-firenze-abbiate-coraggio-del-fallimento-passera/
Macitynet.it
Tim Cook a Firenze: “Abbiate il coraggio del fallimento, passerà" - Macitynet.it
Tim Cook a Firenze parla della transitorietà della vita e del coraggio del fallimento. La risposta a una delle più belle domande degli studenti di Andrea Ceccherini tocca anche la responsabilità di aver preso le redini di Apple da Steve Jobs.
Tim Cook: «La tecnologia? È una questione di umanità» - quarto articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/tim-cook-la-tecnologia-questione-umanita/
https://www.macitynet.it/tim-cook-la-tecnologia-questione-umanita/
Macitynet.it
Tim Cook: la tecnologia? È una questione di umanità - Macitynet.it
Impariamo tutti a fare codice, non per programmare ma per saper vivere nel mondo di oggi. E ricordiamoci che il computer è neutro, tocca a noi infondergli un’anima*
Tim Cook a Firenze: il mondo sarà meraviglioso grazie alla realtà aumentata - quinto e penultimo articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/tim-cook-firenze-mondo-sara-meraviglioso-grazie-alla-realta-aumentata/
https://www.macitynet.it/tim-cook-firenze-mondo-sara-meraviglioso-grazie-alla-realta-aumentata/
Macitynet.it
Tim Cook a Firenze: il mondo sarà meraviglioso grazie alla realtà aumentata - Macitynet.it
Il Ceo di Apple ribadisce la sua visione del futuro: AI e AR nel settore mobile chiave per trasformare alla radice la nostra vita
Il pensiero di Tim Cook agli studenti italia: le tasse, il prezzo dell'iPhone, la sicurezza, la vita - l’ultimo articolo della serie - il sesto - per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/pensiero-tim-cook-agli-studenti-italia-le-tasse-prezzo-delliphone-la-sicurezza-la-vita/
https://www.macitynet.it/pensiero-tim-cook-agli-studenti-italia-le-tasse-prezzo-delliphone-la-sicurezza-la-vita/
Macitynet.it
Il pensiero di Tim Cook agli studenti italia: le tasse, il prezzo dell'iPhone, la sicurezza, la vita - Macitynet.it
Dai dreamers al perché i telefoni di Cupertino abbiano prezzi diversi nel mondo, dalle tasse all'essere gay: ecco l’ultima parte del pomeriggio con Tim Cook, denso di temi e che rivela un leader forte e pacato