Ma voi da bambini sareste stati in grado di resistere per un quarto d’ora senza mangiare il Marshmallow? Perché il successo che hai avuto nella vita lo capisci da quello.
Money quote: ““The capacity to hold out for a 2nd marshmallow is shaped in large part by a child’s social and economic background—and, in turn, that background, not the ability to delay gratification, is what’s behind kids’ long-term success.””
https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/561779/
Money quote: ““The capacity to hold out for a 2nd marshmallow is shaped in large part by a child’s social and economic background—and, in turn, that background, not the ability to delay gratification, is what’s behind kids’ long-term success.””
https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/561779/
Cosa succede nella testa dei bambini quando gli viene letta una storia? E soprattutto, cosa cambia se, anziché essere i genitori a leggerla, è un tablet?
Money quote: “In an ideal world, you would always be there to read to your child. The results of this small, preliminary study also suggest that, when parents do turn to electronic devices for young children, they should gravitate toward the most stripped-down version of a narrated, illustrated ebook, as opposed to either audio-only or animation.”
https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/05/24/611609366/whats-going-on-in-your-childs-brain-when-you-read-them-a-story
Money quote: “In an ideal world, you would always be there to read to your child. The results of this small, preliminary study also suggest that, when parents do turn to electronic devices for young children, they should gravitate toward the most stripped-down version of a narrated, illustrated ebook, as opposed to either audio-only or animation.”
https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/05/24/611609366/whats-going-on-in-your-childs-brain-when-you-read-them-a-story
Comunque, io qui ve lo dico: se la direttiva europea sul copyright passa e viene poi accolta in Italia, "Mostly, I Write" cambia completamente oppure chiude...
https://changecopyright.org/it/impact
https://changecopyright.org/it/impact
mozilla.org
Una minaccia incombe su Internet nell’Unione Europea!
Dillo a @Europarl_IT: il #copyright deve promuovere innovazione e creatività, non ostacolarle. Chiama gratis un MPE:
Il discorso non si limita al legislatore europeo e al suo modo di intedere il copyright. Il punto non è quello (là, alla fine, si tratta dei soliti interessi economici e dei gruppi che spingono per attuarli). Invece Internet, le reti, il computer: tutto questo non è un problema tecnologico, è invece un grande problema culturale. Grande perché grande è l'ignoranza della cultura informatica in cui tutti viviamo inzuppati.
Segue a mo' di esempio una ricerca sul tema (pdf)
Money quote: "All major web browsers include a private browsing mode that does not store browsing history, cookies, or temporary files across browsing sessions. Unfortunately, users have misconceptions about what this mode does. Many factors likely contribute to these misconceptions. In this paper, we focus on browsers’ disclosures, or their inbrowser explanations of private browsing mode. In a 460-participant online study, each participant saw one of 13 different disclosures (the desktop and mobile disclosures of six popular browsers, plus a control). Based on the disclosure they saw, participants answered questions about what would happen in twenty browsing scenarios capturing previously documented misconceptions. We found that browsers’ disclosures fail to correct the majority of the misconceptions we tested. These misconceptions included beliefs that private browsing mode would prevent geolocation, advertisements, viruses,"
https://www.blaseur.com/papers/www18privatebrowsing.pdf
Segue a mo' di esempio una ricerca sul tema (pdf)
Money quote: "All major web browsers include a private browsing mode that does not store browsing history, cookies, or temporary files across browsing sessions. Unfortunately, users have misconceptions about what this mode does. Many factors likely contribute to these misconceptions. In this paper, we focus on browsers’ disclosures, or their inbrowser explanations of private browsing mode. In a 460-participant online study, each participant saw one of 13 different disclosures (the desktop and mobile disclosures of six popular browsers, plus a control). Based on the disclosure they saw, participants answered questions about what would happen in twenty browsing scenarios capturing previously documented misconceptions. We found that browsers’ disclosures fail to correct the majority of the misconceptions we tested. These misconceptions included beliefs that private browsing mode would prevent geolocation, advertisements, viruses,"
https://www.blaseur.com/papers/www18privatebrowsing.pdf
È nato come un saggio di rivista diventato virale e adesso è un libro, Bullshit Jobs, scritto dall’economista David Graeber. Non so quanto andrà lontano ma secondo me è un libro notevole, da leggere, perché tocca un tema profondo della nostra società.
Money quote: “There are millions of people—HR consultants, communication coordinators, telemarketing researchers, corporate lawyers—whose jobs are useless, and, tragically, they know it. These people are caught in bullshit jobs.“
http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Bullshit-Jobs/David-Graeber/9781501143342
Money quote: “There are millions of people—HR consultants, communication coordinators, telemarketing researchers, corporate lawyers—whose jobs are useless, and, tragically, they know it. These people are caught in bullshit jobs.“
http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Bullshit-Jobs/David-Graeber/9781501143342
Simonandschuster
Bullshit Jobs
From David Graeber, the bestselling author of The Dawn of Everything and Debt—“a master of opening up thought and stimulating debate” (Slate)—a pow...
Sul perché grandi classici come Ifconfig, netstat eccetera, non sono più adatti e bisognerebbe (ahimé) sostituirli con altri, più appropriati strumenti. La cosa vale soprattutto nel mondo Linux e per i sistemisti che amministrano dei server. Ma ha senso anche per l’umile utente Mac con Homebrew...
Money quote: “However, the deeper issue is the interface that netstat, ifconfig, and company present to users. In practice, these commands are caught between two masters. On the one hand, the information the tools present and the questions they let us ask are deeply intertwined with how the kernel itself does networking, and in general the tools are very much supposed to report the kernel's reality. On the other hand, the users expect netstat, ifconfig and so on to have their traditional interface (in terms of output, command line arguments, and so on); any number of noscripts and tools fish things out of ifconfig output, for example. As the Linux kernel has changed how it does networking, this has presented things like ifconfig with a deep conflict; their traditional output is no longer necessarily an accurate representation of reality.”
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/ReplacingNetstatNotBad
Money quote: “However, the deeper issue is the interface that netstat, ifconfig, and company present to users. In practice, these commands are caught between two masters. On the one hand, the information the tools present and the questions they let us ask are deeply intertwined with how the kernel itself does networking, and in general the tools are very much supposed to report the kernel's reality. On the other hand, the users expect netstat, ifconfig and so on to have their traditional interface (in terms of output, command line arguments, and so on); any number of noscripts and tools fish things out of ifconfig output, for example. As the Linux kernel has changed how it does networking, this has presented things like ifconfig with a deep conflict; their traditional output is no longer necessarily an accurate representation of reality.”
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/ReplacingNetstatNotBad
Un’idea molto, molto bella per avere un sistema di gestione del proprio budget personale in testo semplice. Minimalista e promettente. Molto promettente.
Money quote: “This is a work in progress. The goal is to turn this into a web application where an user can have multiple sheets and save/export his work. If you feel like helping check out these open issues.”
https://galvez.github.io/plainbudget/
Money quote: “This is a work in progress. The goal is to turn this into a web application where an user can have multiple sheets and save/export his work. If you feel like helping check out these open issues.”
https://galvez.github.io/plainbudget/
Quando l’auto-aiuto arriva alle sue vette, è un derviscio che danza nel cielo, avvolgendosi in aria come un nastro di carta colorata.
Money quote: “When you open yourself to new experiences, you open yourself to change. Obviously, being open to new experiences is hard. In order for you to truly be open, you must be humble”
https://medium.com/the-mission/to-have-what-you-want-you-must-give-up-whats-holding-you-back-65275f844a5a
Money quote: “When you open yourself to new experiences, you open yourself to change. Obviously, being open to new experiences is hard. In order for you to truly be open, you must be humble”
https://medium.com/the-mission/to-have-what-you-want-you-must-give-up-whats-holding-you-back-65275f844a5a
Medium
To Have What You Want, You Must Give-Up What’s Holding You Back
Lessons are repeated until they are learned.
Apple con iOS 12 vuole ridarci il nostro tempo
Money quote: “Though, as a culture, we are somewhat recently woke to the nature of our digital relationship — and have watched as major tech companies, including Google and Facebook, introduce new tools to help us regain control — Apple has, apparently, been working on these tools for a long time.”
https://medium.com/@LanceUlanoff/apple-ios-12-is-a-toolbox-full-of-iphone-breaks-613630e7c1f
Money quote: “Though, as a culture, we are somewhat recently woke to the nature of our digital relationship — and have watched as major tech companies, including Google and Facebook, introduce new tools to help us regain control — Apple has, apparently, been working on these tools for a long time.”
https://medium.com/@LanceUlanoff/apple-ios-12-is-a-toolbox-full-of-iphone-breaks-613630e7c1f
Medium
Apple iOS 12 is a toolbox full of iPhone breaks
It turns out WWDC 2018 is just another pit stop in the digital reckoning roadshow.
Lasciamo perdere per un attimo il discorso degli hipster, del ritorno all’analogico, del fatto che una volta qui fosse tutta campagna e Ms-Dos. Questo ragionamento sulle interfacce fisiche è fantastico (soprattutto per chi scrive, come me, anche se si parla di auto e di registratori di cassa).
Money quote: “Will we see a return to analog interfaces? I certainty hope so. While analog interfaces aren’t applicable to every situation, they do force designers to make permanent decisions. And because specific choices must be made for physical button placement, it’s harder to design an unusable analog interface. And design decisions must be final. Software interfaces can be quickly changed and deployed without the same process — and the world is filling up with nested, mystery-meat menus and confusing user flows.”
https://medium.com/@caseorganic/why-do-we-keep-building-cars-with-touchscreens-alt-the-hidden-lives-of-touchscreens-55faf92799bf
Money quote: “Will we see a return to analog interfaces? I certainty hope so. While analog interfaces aren’t applicable to every situation, they do force designers to make permanent decisions. And because specific choices must be made for physical button placement, it’s harder to design an unusable analog interface. And design decisions must be final. Software interfaces can be quickly changed and deployed without the same process — and the world is filling up with nested, mystery-meat menus and confusing user flows.”
https://medium.com/@caseorganic/why-do-we-keep-building-cars-with-touchscreens-alt-the-hidden-lives-of-touchscreens-55faf92799bf
Medium
The Hidden Cost of Touchscreens
In 2012 I tried out a brand new luxury vehicle at a automotive conference. It was a minimalist European model, and nothing seemed out of…
La USB Type-C purtroppo si sta trasformando in un grande casino
Money quote: “Devices are just as problematic too when it comes to support for “Alternate Modes” and non-USB protocols. These include DisplayPort, MHL, HDMI, Ethernet, and audio functionality provided over the connector, all of which rely on the connected devices and cables to support them. These are not a compulsory part of the specification, as the capabilities and needs clearly vary from device to device. A USB battery pack doesn’t need to support HDMI, for example.”
https://www.androidauthority.com/state-of-usb-type-c-870996/
Money quote: “Devices are just as problematic too when it comes to support for “Alternate Modes” and non-USB protocols. These include DisplayPort, MHL, HDMI, Ethernet, and audio functionality provided over the connector, all of which rely on the connected devices and cables to support them. These are not a compulsory part of the specification, as the capabilities and needs clearly vary from device to device. A USB battery pack doesn’t need to support HDMI, for example.”
https://www.androidauthority.com/state-of-usb-type-c-870996/
La straordinaria storia della cannuccia: nasce come un commento sull'inutilità del suo divieto (dopo i sacchetti di plastica negli Usa vogliono fare fuori anche la cannucce per salvare l'ambiente) e diventa un'epica che spazia fra storia e antropologia. Davvero notevole.
Money quote: "To people living through the early 20th century, the straw was a creation of the new public-health regime. “Due to the ‘Yankee mania for sanitation,’ the American output of artificial straws has increased from 165 million in 1901 to 4 billion a year at present,” the Battle Creek Enquirer wrote in May 1924. “A manufacturer pointed out yesterday that, laid end to end, these straws would build an ant’s subway 16 times around the world at the equator.”"
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/06/disposable-america/563204/
Money quote: "To people living through the early 20th century, the straw was a creation of the new public-health regime. “Due to the ‘Yankee mania for sanitation,’ the American output of artificial straws has increased from 165 million in 1901 to 4 billion a year at present,” the Battle Creek Enquirer wrote in May 1924. “A manufacturer pointed out yesterday that, laid end to end, these straws would build an ant’s subway 16 times around the world at the equator.”"
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/06/disposable-america/563204/
The Atlantic
Disposable America
A history of modern capitalism from the perspective of the straw. Seriously.
Dall’ermeneutica medioevale a fino all’estetica postmoderna. Cos’è l’arte? Qual è il suo significato? Ce lo spiega lui, per fortuna.
Money quote: “What we imagine here is that meaning lies with beauty in the eye of the beholder. In other words, the meaning of an artwork is relative to whoever observes it.“
https://medium.com/@pauldefontreaulx/where-is-the-meaning-of-art-8b7eeec5b7ff
Money quote: “What we imagine here is that meaning lies with beauty in the eye of the beholder. In other words, the meaning of an artwork is relative to whoever observes it.“
https://medium.com/@pauldefontreaulx/where-is-the-meaning-of-art-8b7eeec5b7ff
Medium
Where Is The Meaning of Art?
Why the quest for a correct interpretation leaves us without satisfying answers
Parecchio in ritardo, ma eccone un altro che ha scoperto le gioie dell’iPad Pro 12,9 oltretutto. E i limiti. Ma a prescindere, è tenero perché si impegna nella recensione perfetta del bimborikko che vuole bloggare.
Money quote: “I bought a 90mm macro lens for this post. :)”
https://paulstamatiou.com/made-on-an-ipad-pro/
Money quote: “I bought a 90mm macro lens for this post. :)”
https://paulstamatiou.com/made-on-an-ipad-pro/
Paulstamatiou
Made on an iPad Pro
How the 12.9-inch iPad Pro took me by surprise and replaced my laptop.
Se la domanda regge, il futuro è delle batterie agli ioni di litio. Ma solo fino a quando qualcuno non noterà che non c’è abbastanza litio per tutti.
Money quote: “The future of the battery is going to be driven by the car. Surging demand for lithium-ion batteries, boosted by uptake from automakers, has created efficiencies of scale that have sent prices plummeting. Last year alone, the price of battery packs fell 24 percent, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. These cost declines, in turn, are encouraging the continued expansion of battery power. Lithium-ion technology has begun popping up on electrical grids, scooters, ferries and airplanes—a proliferation that will only accelerate”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-13/how-batteries-went-from-primitive-power-to-global-domination
Money quote: “The future of the battery is going to be driven by the car. Surging demand for lithium-ion batteries, boosted by uptake from automakers, has created efficiencies of scale that have sent prices plummeting. Last year alone, the price of battery packs fell 24 percent, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. These cost declines, in turn, are encouraging the continued expansion of battery power. Lithium-ion technology has begun popping up on electrical grids, scooters, ferries and airplanes—a proliferation that will only accelerate”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-13/how-batteries-went-from-primitive-power-to-global-domination
Bloomberg.com
How Batteries Went From Primitive Power to Global Domination
The technology that’s been in our pocket for decades has moved into cars—and that’s just the start.
Buon compleanno! L’App Store compie 10 anni - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/app-store-compie-10-anni/
https://www.macitynet.it/app-store-compie-10-anni/
Macitynet.it
Buon compleanno! L’App Store compie 10 anni - Macitynet.it
Un decennio di app e di innovazione per una delle più geniali trovate di Apple, che hanno rivoluzionato il modo stesso con il quale pensiamo, creiamo, distribuiamo e consumiamo il software
Attenzione, gli americani stanno per arrendersi. Già non riciclano, poi le cose per chi vuole farlo non sono per niente facili e insomma, basta, qui sta per finire anche questa spinta. E se loro non vogliono più fare la loro parte...
Money quote: "Yes, trash has become complicated, with products that used to come in cans now in combinations of cardboard and plastic. And then there’s the brain-draining complexity of yogurt tubs – one of the items, along with dirty take-out containers, that The New York Times said Americans are recycling incorrectly. I put on my reading glasses and studied a carton of Greek yogurt. I discovered all sorts of mysterious symbols, which may have something to do with the lack of GMOs or gluten.
There were explicit instructions not to put this product in your freezer, which I might have guessed to be the case, but not much help with the container disposal. A tiny, barely perceptible resin code was stamped on the bottom. It was a 5, I think, which means it’s polypropylene, and is accepted as recyclable in some communities and not others."
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-06-27/plastic-recycling-is-a-problem-consumers-can-t-solve
Money quote: "Yes, trash has become complicated, with products that used to come in cans now in combinations of cardboard and plastic. And then there’s the brain-draining complexity of yogurt tubs – one of the items, along with dirty take-out containers, that The New York Times said Americans are recycling incorrectly. I put on my reading glasses and studied a carton of Greek yogurt. I discovered all sorts of mysterious symbols, which may have something to do with the lack of GMOs or gluten.
There were explicit instructions not to put this product in your freezer, which I might have guessed to be the case, but not much help with the container disposal. A tiny, barely perceptible resin code was stamped on the bottom. It was a 5, I think, which means it’s polypropylene, and is accepted as recyclable in some communities and not others."
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-06-27/plastic-recycling-is-a-problem-consumers-can-t-solve
Bloomberg.com
The Recycling Game Is Rigged Against You
Even if you put everything into the right blue bins, a lot of plastics will end up in landfills and the ocean. Consumers can't solve this problem.
Il NYTimes continua a fare meraviglie con il suo approccio all'informazione online (ma servirà poi a qualcosa?) In ogni modo, la storia del corrispondente del Times che torna in Venezuela per vedere come vanno le cose dopo esserne stato sbattuto fuori anni fa. E come vanno le cose? Beh, insomma: medio? Direi forse peggio...
Money quote: "A New York Times correspondent returns to Venezuela"
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/27/world/americas/venezuela-money-how-to-survive.html
Money quote: "A New York Times correspondent returns to Venezuela"
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/27/world/americas/venezuela-money-how-to-survive.html
Nytimes
How to Survive When Money Is Worthless (Published 2018)
A year and a half after I was kicked out of Venezuela, I returned to find out how Venezuelans are holding on as the country falls apart and inflation makes buying a single cup of coffee nearly impossible.
Da un lato capisco tutto, l'attrazione impropria da parte di uno studente, la mancanza di esperienza, il rischio che tutti corrono. Però il modo di risolvere non mi piace lo stesso.
Money quote: "His opening line was, “The thing is, I find you incredibly attractive. And I don’t know what else to do. Is there even a chance?”
Ethan was appealing, but no. Zero chance. We talked about whether he would stay in my class. He said his fondness wouldn’t become a discipline issue. And he turned out to be a great student. Still, I made a report to my boss. Just in case. Imagine if he failed my class. Filed a grade appeal. Told Student Affairs that I hit on him, or encouraged him. What a stain."
https://medium.com/@JessicaLexicus/can-you-swipe-right-on-your-professor-cc205d9159e7
Money quote: "His opening line was, “The thing is, I find you incredibly attractive. And I don’t know what else to do. Is there even a chance?”
Ethan was appealing, but no. Zero chance. We talked about whether he would stay in my class. He said his fondness wouldn’t become a discipline issue. And he turned out to be a great student. Still, I made a report to my boss. Just in case. Imagine if he failed my class. Filed a grade appeal. Told Student Affairs that I hit on him, or encouraged him. What a stain."
https://medium.com/@JessicaLexicus/can-you-swipe-right-on-your-professor-cc205d9159e7
Medium
When you swipe right on your professor
Sex and attraction between students and teachers