Ancora non è neanche segnato nell'apposita pagina dove vengono elencate le carte compatibili, ma Fineco è sbarcata su Apple Pay. Dopo Amex (che però non prendono sempre) er me è una piccola, vera rivoluzione

Money quote: "Fineco è solo l’ultima di una lista di banche che si pian piano vanno ad aggiungersi alla lista di quelle che supportano Apple Pay, anche se al momento in cui scriviamo non figura ancora tra quelle indicate sul sito ufficiale Apple. Nei mesi scorsi erano arrivati Hype, (poi integrata da Tim Personal che opera sullo stesso circuito), BuddyBank (una banca on line di Unicredit) e Allianz. Attualmente la piattaforma Apple Pay conta in Italia un totale di 20, in attesa che exi (già CartaSì) porti ad Apple nuove banche oltre a quelle che sono già compatibili con Apple Pay."

https://www.macitynet.it/fineco-apple-pay-finalmente-disponibile/

Il destino di Microsoft: un re Mida al contrario. Questa volta tocca a Skype, in veloce declino

Money quote: “Bloomberg took a closer look at the Skype and its decline. Microsoft argued that the “criticism is overblown and reflects, in part, people’s grumpiness with software updates.” They say that now the focus is the corporate market. But that doesn’t deny the fact that it is a terrible interface, inhuman and difficult to use. It lacks any imagination”

https://om.co/2018/05/15/skype-interrupted/

La prima, vera medicina contro il mal di testa. Magari...

Money quote: “The first medicine designed to prevent migraines was approved by the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday, ushering in what many experts believe will be a new era in treatment for people who suffer the most severe form of these headaches.“

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/05/17/health/migraines-prevention-drug-aimovig.html

Sony prepara la PlayStation Classic Mini - il mio articolo per La Stampa

http://www.lastampa.it/2018/05/28/tecnologia/sony-prepara-la-playstation-classic-mini-W2CeqofuizfnSfE4CsLgOO/amphtml/pagina.amp.html

Alcuni tipi di dolore cronico possono essere di origine psicologica. E la cura non è chimica

Money quote: “After weaning himself off the opioid Vicodin and feeling like he had exhausted every medical option, Golson turned to a book that described how pain could be purely psychological in origin. That ultimately took a pain psychologist, a therapist who specializes in pain — not a physician — to treat the true source: his fearful thoughts. Realizing that psychological therapy could help “was one of the most profoundly surprising experiences of my life,” Golson says. No doctor he ever saw “even hinted my pain might be psychogenic,” meaning pain that’s psychological in origin.”

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/5/17/17276452/chronic-pain-treatment-psychology-cbt-mindfulness-evidence

Se vivete nell’Unione europea, provate a collegarvi a USA Today. Il quotidiano americano, per evitare problemi con la GDPR, ha creato una versione low tech del suo sito, senza tracker e javanoscript vari. Fila via che sembra un missile. Averne...

https://eu.usatoday.com

Perché ci sono poche donne che scrivono codice, spiegato da una donna che scrive codice

Money quote: “Compared to almost any other industry, women are underrepresented in technology. Only 18% of undergrad computer science majors are women, women hold 25% of technical roles at software companies, and 16% of tech companies are founded by women. Since software engineering is central to modern technology, people worry that the serious gender disparity sets us up for an unbalanced future.”

https://www.kapwing.com/blog/a-female-engineers-opinion-on-fewer-women-in-tech/

Questo tecnologo, Justin Garrison, ha scritto un libro per O’Reilly, che è uno dei maggiori editori di libri di tecnologia. Era il suo primo libro e ne racconta la dinamica e le vicissitudine con dedizione quasi ingenua. Mentre Mark Twain riteneva che gli editori fossero i peggiori banditi, è evidente che sono il banco del casinò: vincono sempre loro.

Money quote: “Post production took about a month to complete and then the book went off for printing. At the same time it was posted on Safari Books Online and immediately available. We each received 6 copies of the book in the mail shortly after it was available for sale.

All in all I worked from Feb — Oct for roughly 5 nights a week at 2–3 hours per night. I also worked about 3 weekends non-stop when a draft or final edits were due. Roughly I’d say I worked about 500 hours total. That was only my time and doesn’t include Kris’. I was lucky to have a co-author to share the load.”

https://medium.com/@rothgar/the-economics-of-writing-a-technical-book-689d0c12fe39

Il New Yorker racconta la storia della vera e unica rivista per hacker: “2600”. Una rivista di carta che va avanti da trent’anni e che vi consiglio di leggere, prima o poi (su archive. org qualcosa si trova).

Lo so, era una cosa da consigliare per il fine settimana, perché è una bella lettura. Ma voi la salvate su pocket o instapaper e il gioco è fatto, no?

Money quote: “2600—named for the frequency that allowed early hackers and “phreakers” to gain control of land-line phones—is the photocopier to Snowden’s microprocessor. Its articles aren’t pasted up on a flashy Web site but, rather, come out in print. The magazine—which started as a three-page leaflet sent out in the mail, and became a digest-sized publication in the late nineteen-eighties—just celebrated its thirtieth anniversary. It still arrives with the turning of the seasons, in brown envelopes just a bit smaller than a 401k mailer.

“There’s been now, by any stretch of the imagination, three generations of hackers who have read 2600 magazine,” Jason Scott, a historian and Web archivist who recently reorganized a set of 2600’s legal files, said. Referring to Goldstein, whose real name is Eric Corley, he continued: “Eric really believes in the power of print, words on paper. It’s obvious for him that his heart is in the paper.” (That love affair comes with a price: earlier this year, 2600 was in danger of closing after a distributor failed to pay the magazine. The case is still in court.)”

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/print-magazine-hackers

Dati per coltivare frutta e verdura, ecco la rivoluzione “vertical farming” - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/dati-per-coltivare-frutta-e-verdura-ecco-la-rivoluzione-vertical-farming/

Se l'esercizio è quello di conquistarsi un pubblico, e nell'epoca del narcisismo preso sul serio certo che lo è, allora forse la strategia migliore è essere autentici e darsi una propria voce

Money quote: "Listen, future content creators of the world: strike the word “content” from your vocabulary. Write it on a post-it note, douse it in kerosene and set that bitch ablaze. You’re not here because you dream of one day stuffing the “Top Posts” section of the Medium newsletter. You’re here because you dream of creating pretty things that serve a purpose. Those bro-flakes are teaching you how to speak. I’m going to teach you how to fucking sing."

https://writingcooperative.com/where-my-writing-voice-comes-from-178af4e1b5e3

Con iPhone si aprono le camere degli hotel e le automobili - il mio articolo per La Stampa

http://www.lastampa.it/2018/05/29/tecnologia/con-iphone-si-aprono-le-camere-degli-hotel-e-le-automobili-GeewA9M68U7P9J4qVCnwjN/amphtml/pagina.amp.html

4,5 megabyte in 62.500 schede perforate. USA, 1955.

Sul come si scrive un libro, se a penna o con il computer

Money quote: "Ultimately, you will have to decide the best way for you to write a novel. I’ve experienced both and I will say that I type my novels directly into the computer now."

https://writingcooperative.com/writing-a-novel-longhand-b1e1a0d450e2

Una coppia di comici americani praticamente sconosciuta da noi, "Tim and Eric". Deliranti. Bellissimi. Da cercare, dopo aver letto l'intervista.

Money quote: "A show filled with hair snacks and too-tight shorts may not sound all that hilarious on the page. Off the page, maybe even less so. But the secret to Tim and Eric’s comedy is in the details. It’s not so much what their characters are saying, but the vacant look in their eyes, the extended silences, their clumsy attempts at sincerity. Even at its most bizarre, there’s something very human about Awesome Show’s cast of eccentrics and weirdos. There’s a frailty behind the madness that only becomes more evident the closer you dare look."

https://www.believermag.com/issues/200809/?read=interview_tim_and_eric

Facile facile, un giochino per rilassarsi. Sì, sì...

Money quote: "3 o'clock is the strange puzzle game where you try to figure out who or what killed the Canderwalt family. This game will take you through a 15 minute journey in the house where it happened. You will be able to point and click through the entire story, but there's a catch! You must uncover what happened by doing the crime yourself! Will you be able to solve the mystery?"

http://www.mind-circus.org

Apple prepara Star, l’ibrido Mac-iPad Pro - il mio articolo per La Stampa

http://www.lastampa.it/2018/05/30/tecnologia/apple-prepara-star-librido-macipad-pro-0licpgZ45L9KSD5rLmvY2I/amphtml/pagina.amp.html

La storia di Anna Delvey, l’influencer miliardaria che stregò vip, potenti, multimiliardari e mezza Manhattan distraendo tutti spostando sempre gli stessi pochi soldi come in un gioco delle tre carte, riuscendo così per qualche anno a pranzare nei migliori ristoranti e dormire nei migliori hotel, raccontata da un lungo pezzo del New York Magazine da non perdere.

Link: http://bit.ly/2L3oeWc

Questo tizio odia Slack. E non solo

Money quote:
"trello & jira
Are also things I hate."

https://abe-winter.github.io/plea%27s/help/2018/02/11/slack.html

GDPR

In Papua Nuova Guinea sono usciti da Facebook tutti insieme (per un mese). Me lo segnala il poeta residente R.R.Corsi.

Money quote: "The government aims to use the month-long ban to analyse how Facebook is being used and prosecute those breaching the country's 2016 cyber-crime law.

Mr Basil told the country's Post-Courier: "The time will allow information to be collected to identify users that hide behind fake accounts, users that upload pornographic images, users that post false and misleading information.""

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44290012?SThisFB