Un audio/video che spiega Socrate, anzi il discorso di Diotima di Mantinea e la scala che porta dal desiderio carnale alla bellezza e alla moralità: tutto preso ovviamente dal Simposio di Platone. È una riduzione fatta da Radio 4 della Bbc.
Money quote: "Can sexual desire lead us to something that transcends the physical act? Socrates seemed to think so. In Plato’s Symposium, Socrates recalls the words of his apparent teacher of erotics, the priestess Diotima of Mantinea, who instructed him that lust was the first rung on a ladder leading upwards towards an appreciation of the form of beauty itself and, further, to morality and virtue."
https://aeon.co/videos/why-socrates-believed-that-sexual-desire-is-the-first-step-towards-righteousness
Money quote: "Can sexual desire lead us to something that transcends the physical act? Socrates seemed to think so. In Plato’s Symposium, Socrates recalls the words of his apparent teacher of erotics, the priestess Diotima of Mantinea, who instructed him that lust was the first rung on a ladder leading upwards towards an appreciation of the form of beauty itself and, further, to morality and virtue."
https://aeon.co/videos/why-socrates-believed-that-sexual-desire-is-the-first-step-towards-righteousness
Aeon
Diotima’s ladder: from lust to morality
Why Socrates believed that sexual desire is the first step towards righteousness
Vodafone ha messo online una bella mappa interattiva che permette di vedere la sua infrastruttura tecnologica e capire che tipo di connessione potete trovare dove siete, ovunque siate
http://globalnetworkmap.vodafone.com/
http://globalnetworkmap.vodafone.com/
Dragonero n. 50, il (buon) fantasy italiano che ho rischiato di perdermi - il mio articolo per Fumettologica
http://www.fumettologica.it/2017/08/dragonero-50-recensione-bonelli/
http://www.fumettologica.it/2017/08/dragonero-50-recensione-bonelli/
Fumettologica
Dragonero n. 50, il (buon) fantasy italiano che ho rischiato di perdermi
Il 50° albo regolare di Dragonero è un albo a colori che rimarca i meriti che la serie Bonelli ha saputo brillantemente cumulare fino ad oggi.
IBM è in difficoltà anche perché il suo futuro è apparentemente legato a Watson. La piattaforma di intelligenza artificiale è stata spinta con tanta enfasi e tante ambiguità rispetto a cosa siano veramente le intelligenze artificiali che adesso IBM rischia di pagarne il prezzo.
Perché marketing e spinning hanno forzato e falsato il concetto di AI, che vive una forte hype dettata da una notevole ignoranza sul tema e aspettative "magiche" sia da parte del pubblico che dei giornalisti. E Watson ovviamente non è all'altezza delle aspettative magiche.
Money quote: "the only intelligent thing about Watson is their PR department."
https://www.wired.com/story/ibm-watson-won-jeopardy-but-is-it-smart-enough-to-spin-big-blues-ai-into-green/
Perché marketing e spinning hanno forzato e falsato il concetto di AI, che vive una forte hype dettata da una notevole ignoranza sul tema e aspettative "magiche" sia da parte del pubblico che dei giornalisti. E Watson ovviamente non è all'altezza delle aspettative magiche.
Money quote: "the only intelligent thing about Watson is their PR department."
https://www.wired.com/story/ibm-watson-won-jeopardy-but-is-it-smart-enough-to-spin-big-blues-ai-into-green/
Wired
IBM’s Watson Won Jeopardy, but Can It Win the New AI Biz?
Triumphing in Jeopardy! was a cinch compared to saving IBM's ailing business.
Prima della pigrizia c'era l'accidia. Che però era proprio un'altra cosa: la negligenza nel fare il bene. Oggi invece è diventata il tedio e la neghittosità che porta a non fare in generale.
L'accidia invece nasce nel deserto, sotto il sole del meriggio che spacca le pietre, fra i monaci eremiti, e si nutre dei loro sogni (per questo smettevano di dormire: per non desiderare più) e li fa urlare e piangere a lungo, da soli, fino a che non abbandonavano l'eremitaggio peggio che morti: vinti.
Ma era un'altra epoca, senza social media e senza poliamore.
Money quote: "To Evagrius of Pontius, acedia was the most noteworthy of the eight vices that he felt could tempt monks to abandon their religious lives. The Greek monk listed gluttony, fornication, avarice, sadness, anger, vainglory, pride, and acedia as threats to devout monasticism in Of the Eight Capital Sins, but argued that acedia was “the last of the sins to conquer.” Overcoming the other seven didn’t mean a monk was safe, but overcoming acedia, according to Evagrius, brought one closer to God."
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/desert-fathers-sins-acedia-sloth
L'accidia invece nasce nel deserto, sotto il sole del meriggio che spacca le pietre, fra i monaci eremiti, e si nutre dei loro sogni (per questo smettevano di dormire: per non desiderare più) e li fa urlare e piangere a lungo, da soli, fino a che non abbandonavano l'eremitaggio peggio che morti: vinti.
Ma era un'altra epoca, senza social media e senza poliamore.
Money quote: "To Evagrius of Pontius, acedia was the most noteworthy of the eight vices that he felt could tempt monks to abandon their religious lives. The Greek monk listed gluttony, fornication, avarice, sadness, anger, vainglory, pride, and acedia as threats to devout monasticism in Of the Eight Capital Sins, but argued that acedia was “the last of the sins to conquer.” Overcoming the other seven didn’t mean a monk was safe, but overcoming acedia, according to Evagrius, brought one closer to God."
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/desert-fathers-sins-acedia-sloth
Atlas Obscura
Before Sloth Meant Laziness, It Was the Spiritual Sin of Acedia
And why early monks in the desert didn't want to fall asleep during the day.
Déjà Vu e il nostro senso della realtà. Più un altro paio di cose
Money quote: "For the past five years I have been suffering epileptic seizures resulting from the growth and eventual removal of a lemon-size tumor from the right-hand side of my brain. Before my diagnosis I appeared fit and healthy: I was in my mid-30s and displayed absolutely no symptoms. Until, that is, the afternoon that I woke up on the kitchen floor with two black eyes after suffering my first recorded seizure"
http://nymag.com/scienceofus/article/when-extreme-dj-vu-destroys-your-sense-of-reality.html
Money quote: "For the past five years I have been suffering epileptic seizures resulting from the growth and eventual removal of a lemon-size tumor from the right-hand side of my brain. Before my diagnosis I appeared fit and healthy: I was in my mid-30s and displayed absolutely no symptoms. Until, that is, the afternoon that I woke up on the kitchen floor with two black eyes after suffering my first recorded seizure"
http://nymag.com/scienceofus/article/when-extreme-dj-vu-destroys-your-sense-of-reality.html
Science of Us
When Extreme Déjà Vu Destroys Your Sense of Reality
“I routinely struggle to discern the difference between lived events and dreams, between memories, hallucinations and the products of my imagination.”
Cattive madri, maternità sotto scrutinio, conflitti di potere tra maschi e femmine. Avere figli dopo la prima guerra mondiale ha aperto una fase completamente differente rispetto alla storia sociale dei secoli precedenti.
Money quote: "Note the double-edged sword of motherhood here. Attracting the praise of being a ‘good mother’ was always accompanied by the threat that you might fall from the perch at any moment and cause devastating harm to your child. Hence the amplification of mechanisms of control, censure and punishment that go hand in hand with the valorisation and surveillance of parenting. Deep within the medical and psychological frameworks promoting motherhood in this period, there lurks male anxiety over female power and influence"
https://aeon.co/ideas/fatal-nurture-what-a-rare-disorder-says-about-bad-mothers
Money quote: "Note the double-edged sword of motherhood here. Attracting the praise of being a ‘good mother’ was always accompanied by the threat that you might fall from the perch at any moment and cause devastating harm to your child. Hence the amplification of mechanisms of control, censure and punishment that go hand in hand with the valorisation and surveillance of parenting. Deep within the medical and psychological frameworks promoting motherhood in this period, there lurks male anxiety over female power and influence"
https://aeon.co/ideas/fatal-nurture-what-a-rare-disorder-says-about-bad-mothers
Qual è la strategia giusta quando non ce la fai più a cavalcare l'onda? Aspettare la prossima.
Money quote: "He did not attack my argument. He didn’t agree with it, either. He just smiled and said, “I am going to wait for the next big thing.”"
http://quibb.com/links/waiting-for-the-next-big-thing-richard-rumelt-on-apple-1997
Money quote: "He did not attack my argument. He didn’t agree with it, either. He just smiled and said, “I am going to wait for the next big thing.”"
http://quibb.com/links/waiting-for-the-next-big-thing-richard-rumelt-on-apple-1997
E se gli smartphone avessero bruciato una generazione? Una cosa mai vista prima, ma che sta succedendo ai Millennials? Altro che "generazione digitale"...
Money quote: "I’ve been researching generational differences for 25 years, starting when I was a 22-year-old doctoral student in psychology. Typically, the characteristics that come to define a generation appear gradually, and along a continuum. Beliefs and behaviors that were already rising simply continue to do so. Millennials, for instance, are a highly individualistic generation, but individualism had been increasing since the Baby Boomers turned on, tuned in, and dropped out. I had grown accustomed to line graphs of trends that looked like modest hills and valleys. Then I began studying Athena’s generation.
Around 2012, I noticed abrupt shifts in teen behaviors and emotional states. The gentle slopes of the line graphs became steep mountains and sheer cliffs, and many of the distinctive characteristics of the Millennial generation began to disappear. In all my analyses of generational data—some reaching back to the 1930s—I had never seen anything like it."
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/has-the-smartphone-destroyed-a-generation/534198/
Money quote: "I’ve been researching generational differences for 25 years, starting when I was a 22-year-old doctoral student in psychology. Typically, the characteristics that come to define a generation appear gradually, and along a continuum. Beliefs and behaviors that were already rising simply continue to do so. Millennials, for instance, are a highly individualistic generation, but individualism had been increasing since the Baby Boomers turned on, tuned in, and dropped out. I had grown accustomed to line graphs of trends that looked like modest hills and valleys. Then I began studying Athena’s generation.
Around 2012, I noticed abrupt shifts in teen behaviors and emotional states. The gentle slopes of the line graphs became steep mountains and sheer cliffs, and many of the distinctive characteristics of the Millennial generation began to disappear. In all my analyses of generational data—some reaching back to the 1930s—I had never seen anything like it."
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/has-the-smartphone-destroyed-a-generation/534198/
The Atlantic
Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
More comfortable online than out partying, post-Millennials are safer, physically, than adolescents have ever been. But they’re on the brink of a mental-health crisis.
Sono andato in piscina, ho nuotato male e adesso ho mal di schiena: è partita come una contrattura e poi è diventata lombalgia a cui si è aggiunta anche un po' di sciatica, tanto per non farci mancare niente.
In questo articolo Vox spiega che probabilmente curiamo i nostri mal di schiena nel modo sbagliato. Perché non sono le medicine o le terapie anche chirurgiche la soluzione, bensì la meditazione e la psicoterapia. Teoria del complotto o forse dovremmo tutti rilassarci di più?
Money quote: "The big takeaway: Millions of back patients like Ramin are floundering in a medical system that isn’t equipped to help them. They’re pushed toward intrusive, addictive, expensive interventions that often fail or can even harm them, and away from things like yoga or psychotherapy, which actually seem to help. Meanwhile, Americans and their doctors have come to expect cures for everything — and back pain is one of those nearly universal ailments with no cure. Patients and taxpayers wind up paying the price for this failure, both in dollars and in health."
Money quote 2: "What I found surprised me: Many of these alternative approaches really do seem to help, though often with modest effects. But when you compare even those small benefits with the harm we’re currently doing while medically “treating” back pain, the horror of the status quo becomes clear. “No one dies of low back pain,” one back pain expert, University of Amsterdam assistant professor Sidney Rubinstein, summed up, “but people are now dying from the treatment.”"
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/8/4/15929484/chronic-back-pain-treatment-mainstream-vs-alternative
In questo articolo Vox spiega che probabilmente curiamo i nostri mal di schiena nel modo sbagliato. Perché non sono le medicine o le terapie anche chirurgiche la soluzione, bensì la meditazione e la psicoterapia. Teoria del complotto o forse dovremmo tutti rilassarci di più?
Money quote: "The big takeaway: Millions of back patients like Ramin are floundering in a medical system that isn’t equipped to help them. They’re pushed toward intrusive, addictive, expensive interventions that often fail or can even harm them, and away from things like yoga or psychotherapy, which actually seem to help. Meanwhile, Americans and their doctors have come to expect cures for everything — and back pain is one of those nearly universal ailments with no cure. Patients and taxpayers wind up paying the price for this failure, both in dollars and in health."
Money quote 2: "What I found surprised me: Many of these alternative approaches really do seem to help, though often with modest effects. But when you compare even those small benefits with the harm we’re currently doing while medically “treating” back pain, the horror of the status quo becomes clear. “No one dies of low back pain,” one back pain expert, University of Amsterdam assistant professor Sidney Rubinstein, summed up, “but people are now dying from the treatment.”"
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/8/4/15929484/chronic-back-pain-treatment-mainstream-vs-alternative
Vox
A comprehensive guide to the new science of treating lower back pain
A review of 80-plus studies upends the conventional wisdom.
Noi siamo la nostra memoria e le nostre esperienze? Facciamo un esperimento mentale: immaginiamo di essere su Marte, prossimi alla morte perché stanno finendo viveri e aria. Per fortuna abbiamo il teletrasporto: un potentissimo scanner che crea una immagine digitale del nostro essere precisa fino all'ultimo atomo, la teletrasmette sulla Terra e qui viene usata per creare da zero un altro noi.
Se dopo il teletrasporto abbiamo la possibilità di distruggere l'originale su Marte, moriamo oppure continuiamo a vivere sulla Terra? Chi è veramente noi, il marziano, il terrestre, entrambi, nessuno?
Money quote: "A residual conservatism in my nature prompts me to think that I would stay the old me, and the new me – whoever he is – would be like a twin to me, indeed more similar to the old me than any natural twin could possibly be. He would feel all the things I would feel, have the same memories, and be so very glad that he’s not starving on Mars. But, for all that, he would not be me: I would not be thinking or experiencing the things he is, nor would he be aware of my own increasingly desperate experience. But if this line of thinking is correct, I am suddenly very reluctant to turn the toggle over to the ‘destroy’ setting. For then it would seem that I would simply be annihilated on Mars, and some new guy on Earth, some guy a lot like me, would falsely believe he had survived the trip."
https://aeon.co/ideas/if-i-teleport-from-mars-does-the-original-me-get-destroyed
Se dopo il teletrasporto abbiamo la possibilità di distruggere l'originale su Marte, moriamo oppure continuiamo a vivere sulla Terra? Chi è veramente noi, il marziano, il terrestre, entrambi, nessuno?
Money quote: "A residual conservatism in my nature prompts me to think that I would stay the old me, and the new me – whoever he is – would be like a twin to me, indeed more similar to the old me than any natural twin could possibly be. He would feel all the things I would feel, have the same memories, and be so very glad that he’s not starving on Mars. But, for all that, he would not be me: I would not be thinking or experiencing the things he is, nor would he be aware of my own increasingly desperate experience. But if this line of thinking is correct, I am suddenly very reluctant to turn the toggle over to the ‘destroy’ setting. For then it would seem that I would simply be annihilated on Mars, and some new guy on Earth, some guy a lot like me, would falsely believe he had survived the trip."
https://aeon.co/ideas/if-i-teleport-from-mars-does-the-original-me-get-destroyed
Letture lunghe: come è nato l'algoritmo per vincere agli scacchi
Money quote: "Contemporary accounts played the story as a Man vs. Machine battle, the quick wits of a human versus the brute computing power of a supercomputer. But Tinsley and Schaeffer both agreed: This was a battle between two men, each having prepared and tuned a unique instrument to defeat the other. Having been so dominant against humans for so long, Tinsley seemed to thrill at finally having some entity that could give him a real game. He had volunteered to play friendly matches against the computer in the run-up to their two world championship matches. And Schaeffer, though he was a bull-headed young man, had become the most effective promoter of Tinsley’s prowess and legacy"
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/07/marion-tinsley-checkers/534111/?single_page=true
Money quote: "Contemporary accounts played the story as a Man vs. Machine battle, the quick wits of a human versus the brute computing power of a supercomputer. But Tinsley and Schaeffer both agreed: This was a battle between two men, each having prepared and tuned a unique instrument to defeat the other. Having been so dominant against humans for so long, Tinsley seemed to thrill at finally having some entity that could give him a real game. He had volunteered to play friendly matches against the computer in the run-up to their two world championship matches. And Schaeffer, though he was a bull-headed young man, had become the most effective promoter of Tinsley’s prowess and legacy"
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/07/marion-tinsley-checkers/534111/?single_page=true
The Atlantic
How Checkers Was Solved
The story of a duel between two men, one who dies, and the nature of the quest to build artificial intelligence
Come giornalista che si occupa di mercati della tecnologia il pezzo sul costo della memoria l'avrò scritto almeno sette od otto volte in quindici anni. Non sono il solo, comunque. Anche negli Usa è un classico stagionale, un po' come la foto di quelli che con il gran caldo d'estate fanno il bagno nella fontana in mezzo alla piazza della città.
La novità è che adesso il prezzo è livellato, forse siamo al costo puro per gigabyte: più sotto non si può andare.
Money quote: "For hard drive prices, the race to zero is over: nobody won. For the past 35+ years or so, hard drives prices have dropped, from around $500,000 per gigabyte in 1981 to less than $0.03 per gigabyte today. This includes the period of the Thailand drive crisis in 2012 that spiked hard drive prices. Matthew Komorowski has done an admirable job of documenting the hard drive price curve through March 2014 and we’d like to fill in the blanks with our own drive purchase data to complete the picture. As you’ll see, the hard drive pricing curve has flattened out."
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-cost-per-gigabyte/
Un grafico che spiega velocemente il calo con l'appiattimento della curva decrescente
http://www.mkomo.com/cost-per-gigabyte-update
La novità è che adesso il prezzo è livellato, forse siamo al costo puro per gigabyte: più sotto non si può andare.
Money quote: "For hard drive prices, the race to zero is over: nobody won. For the past 35+ years or so, hard drives prices have dropped, from around $500,000 per gigabyte in 1981 to less than $0.03 per gigabyte today. This includes the period of the Thailand drive crisis in 2012 that spiked hard drive prices. Matthew Komorowski has done an admirable job of documenting the hard drive price curve through March 2014 and we’d like to fill in the blanks with our own drive purchase data to complete the picture. As you’ll see, the hard drive pricing curve has flattened out."
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-cost-per-gigabyte/
Un grafico che spiega velocemente il calo con l'appiattimento della curva decrescente
http://www.mkomo.com/cost-per-gigabyte-update
Backblaze Blog | Cloud Storage & Cloud Backup
The Cost Per Gigabyte of Hard Drives Over Time
For hard drive prices, the race to zero is over: nobody won. As you’ll see, the hard drive pricing curve has flattened out.
Parliamo un sacco di limgue diverse (circa 7mila ad oggi) che dividono le popolazioni del globo in maniera irregolare ed apparentemente arbitraria. Come mai? C'è chi lo sta studiando in maniera sperimentale, giungendo a interessanti risposte.
Money quote: "Undoubtedly, a wide variety of social and environmental factors and processes have contributed to the patterns in language diversity we see across the globe. In some places topography, climate or the density of key natural resources may be more critical; in others the history of warfare, political organization or the subsistence strategies of different groups may play a bigger role in shaping group boundaries and language diversity patterns. What we have established for now is a template for a method that can be used to uncover the different processes at work in each location."
http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2017/07/the-ancient-reasons-why-we-have-so-many-languages.html
Money quote: "Undoubtedly, a wide variety of social and environmental factors and processes have contributed to the patterns in language diversity we see across the globe. In some places topography, climate or the density of key natural resources may be more critical; in others the history of warfare, political organization or the subsistence strategies of different groups may play a bigger role in shaping group boundaries and language diversity patterns. What we have established for now is a template for a method that can be used to uncover the different processes at work in each location."
http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2017/07/the-ancient-reasons-why-we-have-so-many-languages.html
Science of Us
The Ancient Reasons Why We Have So Many Languages
Rainfall and warfare are just two of the many factors.
Addio facebook. Un programmatore, tra i primi a entrare nel social media, ha cancellato il suo account. Manipolazione, gestione delle emozioni, esperimenti, dipendenza. Altro che problemi di privacy.
Money quote: "Over time, we’ve become hooked on the social validation Facebook (and other services) provide. Before I hit the delete button on my account, one of the last things that kept me on Facebook—after I had largely stopped posting and reading the News Feed—was simply checking my notifications. I unconsciously craved that little hit of happiness one gets when they see, So-and-so liked your post. But that’s not real happiness. It’s an unhealthy addiction".
https://www.blakewatson.com/journal/why-i-left-facebook/
Money quote: "Over time, we’ve become hooked on the social validation Facebook (and other services) provide. Before I hit the delete button on my account, one of the last things that kept me on Facebook—after I had largely stopped posting and reading the News Feed—was simply checking my notifications. I unconsciously craved that little hit of happiness one gets when they see, So-and-so liked your post. But that’s not real happiness. It’s an unhealthy addiction".
https://www.blakewatson.com/journal/why-i-left-facebook/
Blakewatson
Why I left Facebook - blakewatson.com
After being an early adopter of Facebook and using it for over a decade, I decided to delete my account. Here's why.
Giovani etero che si prostituiscono con anziani gay. Giappone nascosto.
Money quote: "Explain what Hayami meant about “comforting the souls” of customers.
Japanese men can’t traditionally live openly as homosexuals. Many carry with them a great deal of shame, self-hatred and other negative feelings. So a large portion of what these boys are doing is more than just a sex act, which may only last for five minutes. In these moments — bathing with someone, being held by someone, having them wash their back and stroke their hair — customers are made to feel like everything is okay. That’s a big part of the urisen experience."
https://melmagazine.com/the-straight-male-sex-workers-of-japan-who-sell-their-services-to-gay-men-9c84de2e3f88
Money quote: "Explain what Hayami meant about “comforting the souls” of customers.
Japanese men can’t traditionally live openly as homosexuals. Many carry with them a great deal of shame, self-hatred and other negative feelings. So a large portion of what these boys are doing is more than just a sex act, which may only last for five minutes. In these moments — bathing with someone, being held by someone, having them wash their back and stroke their hair — customers are made to feel like everything is okay. That’s a big part of the urisen experience."
https://melmagazine.com/the-straight-male-sex-workers-of-japan-who-sell-their-services-to-gay-men-9c84de2e3f88
MEL Magazine
The Straight Male Sex Workers of Japan Who Sell Their Services to Gay Men
“If you’d never experienced this, it would be hard to understand.”
David Carson, uno dei più irregolari tra gli eroi della grafica tipografica, contro i vizi del design contemporaneo.
Money quote: "Here, he talks with us about his ongoing hatred of the grid, his continued love affair with QuarkXpress, and why impactful graphic design is more necessary than ever."
https://magenta.as/the-father-of-grunge-typography-calls-out-lazy-design-daae470a685a
Money quote: "Here, he talks with us about his ongoing hatred of the grid, his continued love affair with QuarkXpress, and why impactful graphic design is more necessary than ever."
https://magenta.as/the-father-of-grunge-typography-calls-out-lazy-design-daae470a685a
Medium
The Father of Grunge Typography Calls Out Lazy Design
Legendary designer David Carson on why you should just say no to Helvetica.
Belle immagini dello "hippie trail" scattate nel 1971 da Jack Garofalo, fotografo inviato da Paris Match
Money quote: "In the 1960s and 70s, intrepid European and American naifs were traipsing the backroads of South Asia on an unofficial network of cheap hostels and budget bus fleets known as the Hippie Trail. There they hoped to encounter enough ancient spirituality—and hashish—to inject their bourgeois existence with a trace of meaning"
https://timeline.com/hippie-trail-sexy-photos-87d44de3792
Money quote: "In the 1960s and 70s, intrepid European and American naifs were traipsing the backroads of South Asia on an unofficial network of cheap hostels and budget bus fleets known as the Hippie Trail. There they hoped to encounter enough ancient spirituality—and hashish—to inject their bourgeois existence with a trace of meaning"
https://timeline.com/hippie-trail-sexy-photos-87d44de3792
Medium
These absurd photos of young travelers on the ‘Hippie Trail’ raise a lot of questions
Let me see that sarong
Migliaia di sviluppatori, un miliardo di documenti, 35 milioni di commit. Benvenuti nel repository di tutto, ma proprio tutto il codice di Google. Inchiesta molto molto interessante di ACM.
Money quote: "Early Google employees decided to work with a shared codebase managed through a centralized source control system. This approach has served Google well for more than 16 years, and today the vast majority of Google's software assets continues to be stored in a single, shared repository. Meanwhile, the number of Google software developers has steadily increased, and the size of the Google codebase has grown exponentially (see Figure 1). As a result, the technology used to host the codebase has also evolved significantly"
https://m.cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-stores-billions-of-lines-of-code-in-a-single-repository/fulltext
Qui ne parlava anche Wired USA
https://www.wired.com/2015/09/google-2-billion-lines-codeand-one-place/
Money quote: "Early Google employees decided to work with a shared codebase managed through a centralized source control system. This approach has served Google well for more than 16 years, and today the vast majority of Google's software assets continues to be stored in a single, shared repository. Meanwhile, the number of Google software developers has steadily increased, and the size of the Google codebase has grown exponentially (see Figure 1). As a result, the technology used to host the codebase has also evolved significantly"
https://m.cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-stores-billions-of-lines-of-code-in-a-single-repository/fulltext
Qui ne parlava anche Wired USA
https://www.wired.com/2015/09/google-2-billion-lines-codeand-one-place/
cacm.acm.org
Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository
Google's monolithic repository provides a common source of truth for tens of thousands of developers around the world.