Ancora più sconvolgente. Lo sapevate che il cristianesimo è una religione fatta da immigrati? Gente che viene da un posto chiamato Palestina (anche se altri ti spiegano che la Palestina non esiste e che comunque non ci abitava nessuno di quelli che adesso vorrebbe continuare ad abitarci).
Money quote: “That a world religion should have emerged from an oriental cult in a tiny and peculiar corner of Roman Palestine is nothing short of extraordinary. Jesus of Nazareth was a Jew, though an eccentric one, and here the concern is not what the historical Jesus did or did not believe. We know that he was executed for disturbing the Roman peace during the reign of the emperor Tiberius, and that some of his followers then decided that Jesus was not merely another regular prophet, common in the region. Rather, he was the son of the one true god, and he had died to bring salvation to those who would follow him.”
https://aeon.co/essays/how-an-obscure-oriental-cult-converted-a-vast-pagan-roman-empire
Money quote: “That a world religion should have emerged from an oriental cult in a tiny and peculiar corner of Roman Palestine is nothing short of extraordinary. Jesus of Nazareth was a Jew, though an eccentric one, and here the concern is not what the historical Jesus did or did not believe. We know that he was executed for disturbing the Roman peace during the reign of the emperor Tiberius, and that some of his followers then decided that Jesus was not merely another regular prophet, common in the region. Rather, he was the son of the one true god, and he had died to bring salvation to those who would follow him.”
https://aeon.co/essays/how-an-obscure-oriental-cult-converted-a-vast-pagan-roman-empire
Aeon
Christians were strangers
How an obscure oriental cult in a corner of Roman Palestine grew to become the dominant religion of the Western world
Apple, Tim Cook a cena con Ivanka Trump - il mio articolo su La Stampa
http://www.lastampa.it/2017/01/30/tecnologia/news/apple-tim-cook-a-cena-con-ivanka-trump-1kEgA1qDCQ5VR0lEqkch9J/pagina.html
http://www.lastampa.it/2017/01/30/tecnologia/news/apple-tim-cook-a-cena-con-ivanka-trump-1kEgA1qDCQ5VR0lEqkch9J/pagina.html
LaStampa.it
Apple, Tim Cook a cena con Ivanka Trump
Il Ceo della Mela a Washington con la vicepresidente Lisa Jackson per incontrare la figlia del presidente americano e suo marito. Hanno discusso di affari, ma poco di politica
Avremmo bisogno di fogli di calcolo migliori. E ripensare il modo con il quale si costruisce il software (aziendale) e perché.
Money quote:
WThe UX of paper is still fantastic.
It never runs out of battery.
It can be both structured and schema-less.
There’s no pesky validation errors to overcome.
The resolution of an A4 piece of paper is a crisp 3508px x 2480px. For comparison, my MacBook Air is about a third of that at 1440px x 900px.
and it never says, “oops something went wrong.” (Rails 500 error)”
http://blog.voyager.vc/the-world-needs-a-better-spreadsheet/
Money quote:
WThe UX of paper is still fantastic.
It never runs out of battery.
It can be both structured and schema-less.
There’s no pesky validation errors to overcome.
The resolution of an A4 piece of paper is a crisp 3508px x 2480px. For comparison, my MacBook Air is about a third of that at 1440px x 900px.
and it never says, “oops something went wrong.” (Rails 500 error)”
http://blog.voyager.vc/the-world-needs-a-better-spreadsheet/
Voyager
The world(and CRM) needs a better spreadsheet and form builder
I should be able to design the schema of my application with a form-building UI, and produce a documentation that is both machine and human readable.
Se volete leggere una cosa sola sulle auto che si guidano da sole (argomento grandemente passato di moda ma che in realtà è più attuale che mai, anche perché da là passa buona parte degli studi sul machine learning e ditorni) leggete questa. Davvero
Money quote: “In this post I will explore two possible consequences of having self driving cars, two consequences that I have not seen being discussed, while various car companies, non-traditional players, and startups debate what level of autonomy we might expect in our cars and when. These potential consequences are self-driving cars as social outcasts and anti-social behavior of owners. Both may have tremendous and unexpected influence on the uptake of self-driving cars. Both are more about the social realm than the technical realm, which is perhaps why technologists have not addressed them. And then I’ll finish, however, by dissing a non-technical aspect of self driving cars that has been overdone by technologists and other amateur philosophers with an all out flame. And yes, I am at best an amateur philosopher too. That’s why it is a flame.“
http://rodneybrooks.com/unexpected-consequences-of-self-driving-cars/
Money quote: “In this post I will explore two possible consequences of having self driving cars, two consequences that I have not seen being discussed, while various car companies, non-traditional players, and startups debate what level of autonomy we might expect in our cars and when. These potential consequences are self-driving cars as social outcasts and anti-social behavior of owners. Both may have tremendous and unexpected influence on the uptake of self-driving cars. Both are more about the social realm than the technical realm, which is perhaps why technologists have not addressed them. And then I’ll finish, however, by dissing a non-technical aspect of self driving cars that has been overdone by technologists and other amateur philosophers with an all out flame. And yes, I am at best an amateur philosopher too. That’s why it is a flame.“
http://rodneybrooks.com/unexpected-consequences-of-self-driving-cars/
La strana, affascinante storia delle “China Girls”, le teste di ragazza che comparivano all’inizio degli spezzoni di pellicola cinematografica
Money quote: “China girls went by many names—leader ladies, girl head, lady wedge—but they were almost always images of women, and those women were almost always white. They were meant to show the person developing a film that everything had gone right technically; if it hadn’t, the China girl’s skin tone would look unnatural.”
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-forgotten-china-girls-hidden-at-the-beginning-of-old-films
Money quote: “China girls went by many names—leader ladies, girl head, lady wedge—but they were almost always images of women, and those women were almost always white. They were meant to show the person developing a film that everything had gone right technically; if it hadn’t, the China girl’s skin tone would look unnatural.”
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-forgotten-china-girls-hidden-at-the-beginning-of-old-films
Atlas Obscura
The Forgotten ‘China Girls’ Hidden at the Beginning of Old Films
Used as quality control, these haunting images were never meant to be public.
C'è addirittura chi, come la Chicago Film Society, dal 2011 ha iniziato a collezionare le immagini delle China Girls
https://youtu.be/-nVBDX3P5TY
https://youtu.be/-nVBDX3P5TY
YouTube
Girls on Film
A Film by Julie Buck and Karin Segal
Girls on Film is about 70 unknown movie stars. Despite appearing in countless films, they were never actually meant to be seen by the movie-going public. In fact, these women are so enigmatic that in most cases we…
Girls on Film is about 70 unknown movie stars. Despite appearing in countless films, they were never actually meant to be seen by the movie-going public. In fact, these women are so enigmatic that in most cases we…
Ci siamo quasi, il campus numero due di Apple sta per arrivare. L’astronave-madre è quasi pronta. È stato l’ultimo, grande progetto di Steve Jobs. Il mio articolo per Repubblica
Money quote: “Il Campus 2 è l'ultimo progetto ideato e seguito fin quando possibile da Steve Jobs, che è scomparso nell'ottobre del 2011. Addirittura, l'ultima apparizione pubblica del fondatore di Apple, poche settimane prima di morire, è avvenuta davanti al consiglio comunale di Cupertino per presentare nel dettaglio il progetto che venne poi approvato da tutti i consiglieri.”
http://www.repubblica.it/tecnologia/2017/01/31/news/apple_campus_2_l_astronave_di_steve_jobs_e_quasi_pronta-157305373/#gallery-slider=157308398
Money quote: “Il Campus 2 è l'ultimo progetto ideato e seguito fin quando possibile da Steve Jobs, che è scomparso nell'ottobre del 2011. Addirittura, l'ultima apparizione pubblica del fondatore di Apple, poche settimane prima di morire, è avvenuta davanti al consiglio comunale di Cupertino per presentare nel dettaglio il progetto che venne poi approvato da tutti i consiglieri.”
http://www.repubblica.it/tecnologia/2017/01/31/news/apple_campus_2_l_astronave_di_steve_jobs_e_quasi_pronta-157305373/#gallery-slider=157308398
Repubblica.it
Apple Campus 2, "l'astronave" di Steve Jobs è quasi pronta
La nuova sede dell'azienda, dall'architettura avveniristica, sta per essere terminata. Apertura prevista a fine marzo
Ha senso chiamare “bugiardo” un presidente degli Stati Uniti? Ha senso farlo nel caso di Donald Trump, che effettivamente dice delle gran bugie, perfettamente verificabili?
Ecco, la risposta non è così semplice. Perché chiamarlo bugiardo vuol dire minare la fiducia nella capacità dei giornali, in qualche modo. Una interessante riflessione di David Greenberg, professore di storia dei media e media studies alla Rutgers University (NJ).
Money quote: “Notably, though, it wasn’t until the Watergate investigations proved that Nixon had deliberately uttered his falsehoods with the intent to deceive the public that journalists rolled out the heaviest rhetorical artillery available to them: Calling the president a liar.”
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/the-perils-of-calling-trump-a-liar-214704
Ecco, la risposta non è così semplice. Perché chiamarlo bugiardo vuol dire minare la fiducia nella capacità dei giornali, in qualche modo. Una interessante riflessione di David Greenberg, professore di storia dei media e media studies alla Rutgers University (NJ).
Money quote: “Notably, though, it wasn’t until the Watergate investigations proved that Nixon had deliberately uttered his falsehoods with the intent to deceive the public that journalists rolled out the heaviest rhetorical artillery available to them: Calling the president a liar.”
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/the-perils-of-calling-trump-a-liar-214704
POLITICO Magazine
The Perils of Calling Trump a Liar
The media can report the president's untruths without losing credibility by assuming motives.
Da queste parti si parla molto di informatica. Quindi come non citare il libro in allegato al Corriere della Sera di oggi: il santo patrono Alan Turing. Lettura imprescindibile: è fatto bene, chiaro e scientificamente fondato! Fortemente consigliato.
Piccola storia orale di Space Oddity, spettacolare e indimenticabile esordio di David Bowie
Money quote: “"Space Oddity" was recorded in June 1969, and it was released a month later to cash in on the imminent moon landing. A few months after that, the song became a hit, and a second album – titled, like his debut, David Bowie – was recorded to showcase it. "I didn't like the idea of capitalizing on the man on the moon," producer Tony Visconti said years later. "I thought it was a cheap shot."”
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/david-bowies-space-oddity-how-hit-song-led-to-rushed-lp-w448220
Money quote: “"Space Oddity" was recorded in June 1969, and it was released a month later to cash in on the imminent moon landing. A few months after that, the song became a hit, and a second album – titled, like his debut, David Bowie – was recorded to showcase it. "I didn't like the idea of capitalizing on the man on the moon," producer Tony Visconti said years later. "I thought it was a cheap shot."”
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/david-bowies-space-oddity-how-hit-song-led-to-rushed-lp-w448220
Rolling Stone
David Bowie's 'Space Oddity': How '2001'-Inspired Hit Led to Rushed LP
Read how the surprise success of David Bowie's '2001'-inspired 1969 hit "Space Oddity" led to his disjointed LP of the same name.
Ahi! Oggi si sente tanto dolore nella rete
Money quote: “Source-code hub Gitlab.com is in meltdown after experiencing data loss as a result of what it has suddenly discovered are ineffectual backups. On Tuesday evening, Pacific Time, the startup issued the sobering series of tweets, starting with "We are performing emergency database maintenance, GitLab.com will be taken offline" and ending with "We accidentally deleted production data and might have to restore from backup. Google Doc with live notes." Behind the scenes, a tired sysadmin, working late at night in the Netherlands, had accidentally deleted a directory on the wrong server during a frustrating database replication process: he wiped a folder containing 300GB of live production data that was due to be replicated.“
https://it.slashdot.org/story/17/02/01/0640248/gitlabcom-melts-down-after-wrong-directory-deleted-backups-fail
Money quote: “Source-code hub Gitlab.com is in meltdown after experiencing data loss as a result of what it has suddenly discovered are ineffectual backups. On Tuesday evening, Pacific Time, the startup issued the sobering series of tweets, starting with "We are performing emergency database maintenance, GitLab.com will be taken offline" and ending with "We accidentally deleted production data and might have to restore from backup. Google Doc with live notes." Behind the scenes, a tired sysadmin, working late at night in the Netherlands, had accidentally deleted a directory on the wrong server during a frustrating database replication process: he wiped a folder containing 300GB of live production data that was due to be replicated.“
https://it.slashdot.org/story/17/02/01/0640248/gitlabcom-melts-down-after-wrong-directory-deleted-backups-fail
it.slashdot.org
GitLab.com Melts Down After Wrong Directory Deleted, Backups Fail - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: Source-code hub Gitlab.com is in meltdown after experiencing data loss as a result of what it has suddenly discovered are ineffectual backups. On Tuesday evening, Pacific Time, the startup issued the…
Addio John Wetton, compositore, bassista e cantante, scomparso a 67 anni. Lo ricordiamo tutti per i King Crimson (e ci mancherebbe altro) ma per me era anche uno dei fondatori degli Asia, gruppo che adoro. Mi mancherà!
https://youtu.be/OfR6_V91fG8
https://youtu.be/OfR6_V91fG8
YouTube
King Crimson - Starless (OFFICIAL)
Robert Fripp guitar & Mellotron, John Wetton bass & vocals, Bill Bruford, drums and percussion with guests Mel Collins sax, Robin Miller, oboe. Appears on Red (1974)
Il settimanale americano di informatica Computerworld compie 50 anni. È stata la voce che ha inventato la stampa di settore
Money quote: “Il 21 giugno del 1967 uscì il primo numero di Computerworld, che cercava di anticipare i tempi di un boom della tecnologia informatica aziendale e poi personale che non si sarebbe più fermato. L’IDC di McGovern sarebbe diventata il braccio di ricerca dell’International Data Group, che avrebbe creato un vero e proprio impero: 300 pubblicazioni in 97 paesi, 460 siti web di informazione, più di 700 eventi l’anno. Computerworld avrebbe dato il via a una serie di pubblicazioni affini: Network World, InfoWorld, PCWorld, CIO, CSO, e l’agenzia IDG News. Nel 1980 McGovern fu uno dei primissimi a fare addirittura una joint venture in Cina, creando la IDG della Repubblica Popolare.”
http://www.macitynet.it/tanti-auguri-computerworld-compie-50-anni/
Money quote: “Il 21 giugno del 1967 uscì il primo numero di Computerworld, che cercava di anticipare i tempi di un boom della tecnologia informatica aziendale e poi personale che non si sarebbe più fermato. L’IDC di McGovern sarebbe diventata il braccio di ricerca dell’International Data Group, che avrebbe creato un vero e proprio impero: 300 pubblicazioni in 97 paesi, 460 siti web di informazione, più di 700 eventi l’anno. Computerworld avrebbe dato il via a una serie di pubblicazioni affini: Network World, InfoWorld, PCWorld, CIO, CSO, e l’agenzia IDG News. Nel 1980 McGovern fu uno dei primissimi a fare addirittura una joint venture in Cina, creando la IDG della Repubblica Popolare.”
http://www.macitynet.it/tanti-auguri-computerworld-compie-50-anni/
Macitynet.it
Tanti auguri Computerworld: compie 50 anni
L’incredibile storia della pubblicazione (e del gruppo editoriale) che ha inventato l’editoria informatica internazionale
Antonio Tombolini, l’imprenditore dietro Simplicissimus editore digitale “puro”, è uno che ama dire quel che pensa. In questo caso, spiega perché il mercato librario è in crisi, perché i distributori si comprano per quattro soldi le case editrici (con nomi e cognomi) e perché in tutta questa faccenda l’ebook non c’entra niente. Anzi.
Lettura robusta (l’uomo non ama la sintesi) ma scorrevole. Si farà ancora meno amici di prima.
Money quote: “Ovviamente il distributore non mi paga subito (figuriamoci, paga a 120-210gg). Sono un editore per bene, e voglio pagare chi ha lavorato per me. L’autore no, perché prenderà le royalties sul venduto, ma gli altri li devo pagare subito: al tipografo devo dare i suoi 2.000€, all’impaginatore (che con la crisi mi fa un buon prezzo) i suoi 300€, il grafico altrettanti, il correttore di bozze. Ah, ci sono anche i 600€ di affitto, altrettanti di bollette, e… URKA! Dove li prendo i soldi? Aspetta, lo so: ho fatto proprio adesso una fattura di ben 12.000€, vado in banca e mi faccio anticipare l’importo, poi quando il distributore mi paga la fattura li restituisco alla banca. “OK, non c’è problema, metti una firma qua, mi dice il direttore della banca, sì, è la fideiussione, una formalità obbligatoria, ovviamente”.”
http://antoniotombolini.simplicissimus.it/2017/02/il-circolo-vizioso-delleditoria-libraria.html
Lettura robusta (l’uomo non ama la sintesi) ma scorrevole. Si farà ancora meno amici di prima.
Money quote: “Ovviamente il distributore non mi paga subito (figuriamoci, paga a 120-210gg). Sono un editore per bene, e voglio pagare chi ha lavorato per me. L’autore no, perché prenderà le royalties sul venduto, ma gli altri li devo pagare subito: al tipografo devo dare i suoi 2.000€, all’impaginatore (che con la crisi mi fa un buon prezzo) i suoi 300€, il grafico altrettanti, il correttore di bozze. Ah, ci sono anche i 600€ di affitto, altrettanti di bollette, e… URKA! Dove li prendo i soldi? Aspetta, lo so: ho fatto proprio adesso una fattura di ben 12.000€, vado in banca e mi faccio anticipare l’importo, poi quando il distributore mi paga la fattura li restituisco alla banca. “OK, non c’è problema, metti una firma qua, mi dice il direttore della banca, sì, è la fideiussione, una formalità obbligatoria, ovviamente”.”
http://antoniotombolini.simplicissimus.it/2017/02/il-circolo-vizioso-delleditoria-libraria.html
Se cercate lavoro e il vostro sogno è andare a realizzare mappamondi terracquei 3D a Londra come si faceva una volta, diciamo dai tempi di Cristoforo Colombo in poi, questa potrebbe essere la vostra occasione: Bellerby and Co. cerca
Money quote: “The job may sound dreamy, but it’s not easy. Applicants should be prepared for a long training period. Everyone at Bellerby starts out as an apprentice, and it takes at least six months to learn to make the smallest and simplest globes, and years to make the bigger ones.”
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/you-can-apply-now-to-be-an-apprentice-globe-maker-in-london
Money quote: “The job may sound dreamy, but it’s not easy. Applicants should be prepared for a long training period. Everyone at Bellerby starts out as an apprentice, and it takes at least six months to learn to make the smallest and simplest globes, and years to make the bigger ones.”
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/you-can-apply-now-to-be-an-apprentice-globe-maker-in-london
Atlas Obscura
You Can Apply Now to Be an Apprentice Globe Maker in London
Hand-paint the world at Bellerby and Co.
Se oggi pomeriggio avete notato qualche problema con Telegram (non solo il mio canale, in generale), avete notato giusto. Hanno avuto problemi un po’ da tutte le parti
http://www.macitynet.it/telegram-non-funziona-presunti-problemi-ai-server-europa/
http://www.macitynet.it/telegram-non-funziona-presunti-problemi-ai-server-europa/
Macitynet.it
Telegram non funziona, problemi nei server in Europa - Macitynet.it
Il servizio di messaggistica Telegram non funziona in Italia ma non solo. gli utenti segnalano Telegram server down, la società è al lavoro
Surreale. Quelli di McSweeney hanno preso il discorso del Black Hinstory Month di Donald Trump e ne hanno fatto una parodia. Senza cambiarne una parola
Money quote: “We’re gonna need better schools and we need them soon. We need more jobs, we need better wages, a lot better wages. We’re gonna work very hard on the inner city. Ben is gonna be doing that, big league. That’s one of the big things that you’re gonna be looking at. We need safer communities and we’re going to do that with law enforcement. We’re gonna make it safe. We’re gonna make it much better than it is right now. Right now it’s terrible, and I saw you talking about it the other night, Paris, on something else that was really — you did a fantastic job the other night on a very unrelated show.”
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/my-very-good-black-history-month-tribute-to-some-of-the-most-tremendous-black-people
Money quote: “We’re gonna need better schools and we need them soon. We need more jobs, we need better wages, a lot better wages. We’re gonna work very hard on the inner city. Ben is gonna be doing that, big league. That’s one of the big things that you’re gonna be looking at. We need safer communities and we’re going to do that with law enforcement. We’re gonna make it safe. We’re gonna make it much better than it is right now. Right now it’s terrible, and I saw you talking about it the other night, Paris, on something else that was really — you did a fantastic job the other night on a very unrelated show.”
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/my-very-good-black-history-month-tribute-to-some-of-the-most-tremendous-black-people
McSweeney's Internet Tendency
Monologue: My Very Good Black History Month Tribute to Some of the Most Tremendous Black People
Well, the election, it came out really well. Next time we’ll triple the number or quadruple it. We want to get it over 51, right? At least 51.
Well...
Well...
Cambio di destinazione per Nicholas Thompson, dal New Yorker a Wired, da New York a San Francisco. Tempo di ricordare - brevemente - cosa è stato fatto mentre ci si prepara a quel che si dovrà fare. E tra le altre cose, quella che segue è una bella lista di articoli del New Yorker, uno dei settimanali che secondo me la sfida del digitale l’ha vinta.
Money quote: “I finished my job at The New Yorker on Friday, and I'm on a plane now to San Francisco where I'll start Monday as the editor of Wired. I couldn't be more excited about the challenges that await. But as I fly West, it seems like a good moment to mark some of the most memorable pieces I worked on in my six-and-a-half years at The New Yorker. I probably edited a thousand pieces in my time there, but here are twelve that jump to mind.”
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/looking-back-six-years-new-yorker-stories-nicholas-thompson
Money quote: “I finished my job at The New Yorker on Friday, and I'm on a plane now to San Francisco where I'll start Monday as the editor of Wired. I couldn't be more excited about the challenges that await. But as I fly West, it seems like a good moment to mark some of the most memorable pieces I worked on in my six-and-a-half years at The New Yorker. I probably edited a thousand pieces in my time there, but here are twelve that jump to mind.”
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/looking-back-six-years-new-yorker-stories-nicholas-thompson
Apple Watch contro tutti - il mio articolo per Macity
http://www.macitynet.it/apple-watch-fosse-solo-un-orologio/
http://www.macitynet.it/apple-watch-fosse-solo-un-orologio/
Macitynet.it
Apple Watch contro tutti: e se fosse solo un orologio?
È tempo di pensare Apple Watch in modo diverso. Dalle brochure degli orologi "classici" ai risultati molto positivi delle vendite di Apple