Una bella storia, da ricordare se già la conoscete. Come Susan Kare ha creato le icone del primo Macintosh.
Money quote: ““Andy Herzfeld wrote an icon editor and that let you see magnified what you were working on and also as you turned the bits on and off you could see it real size. It was a huge asset that it automatically generated the hex values because before that I was taught how to look at each group of four pixels and write down each of those hexadecimal numbers. I made this one the bomb really irreverent because I was told ‘nobody will ever see this icon!’””
https://milanote.com/the-work/the-story-behind-susan-kares-iconic-design-work-for-apple
Money quote: ““Andy Herzfeld wrote an icon editor and that let you see magnified what you were working on and also as you turned the bits on and off you could see it real size. It was a huge asset that it automatically generated the hex values because before that I was taught how to look at each group of four pixels and write down each of those hexadecimal numbers. I made this one the bomb really irreverent because I was told ‘nobody will ever see this icon!’””
https://milanote.com/the-work/the-story-behind-susan-kares-iconic-design-work-for-apple
Milanote
Milanote - the tool for organizing creative projects
Milanote is an easy-to-use tool to organize your ideas and projects into visual boards. Add notes, images, links and files, organize them visually and share them with your team.
È una idea. Come spesso succede, le idee tendono a diventare piuttosto estreme quando arrivano dopo e sembra che tutto sia già stato detto e inventato. In questo caso però Zerocracy è davvero una cosa singolare...
Money quote: “We believe that most of the above is caused by broken management, not technical incompetence. To solve this, we recommend replacing empowering a human project manager with Zerocrat, a hosted chat bot. To make a project manageable by a computer we use a strict Policy which derives the following principles from the eXtremely Distributed Software Development methodology”
http://www.zerocracy.com/toc.html
Money quote: “We believe that most of the above is caused by broken management, not technical incompetence. To solve this, we recommend replacing empowering a human project manager with Zerocrat, a hosted chat bot. To make a project manageable by a computer we use a strict Policy which derives the following principles from the eXtremely Distributed Software Development methodology”
http://www.zerocracy.com/toc.html
Zerocracy
What Is Zerocracy?
Zerocracy solves a number of problems we all experience in software development projects, and helps optimize costs and increase quality.
Il WSJ racconta un storia interessante, che spiega come mai alle volte cose apparentemente sensate possono essere utilizzate per fare il loro esatto contrario.
Money quote: “As Amazon has cracked down on fake reviews, some sellers are leaving five-star, fake-looking reviews on rival listings so they trigger Amazon’s scam-detecting algorithm and get the rival seller suspended”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-sellers-trick-amazon-to-boost-sales-1532750493
Money quote: “As Amazon has cracked down on fake reviews, some sellers are leaving five-star, fake-looking reviews on rival listings so they trigger Amazon’s scam-detecting algorithm and get the rival seller suspended”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-sellers-trick-amazon-to-boost-sales-1532750493
WSJ
How Sellers Trick Amazon to Boost Sales
The digital giant battles click farms, reviewers-for-hire and other scams as merchants try to outsmart its product-ranking system.
Basta la parola: l’Interpol riconosce le persone dalla voce - il mio articolo per La Stampa
http://www.lastampa.it/2018/07/30/tecnologia/basta-la-parola-linterpol-riconosce-le-persone-dalla-voce-ut5dSwrwgBP3Xo0oUtBM8N/pagina.html
http://www.lastampa.it/2018/07/30/tecnologia/basta-la-parola-linterpol-riconosce-le-persone-dalla-voce-ut5dSwrwgBP3Xo0oUtBM8N/pagina.html
LaStampa.it
Basta la parola: l’Interpol riconosce le persone dalla voce
Parte Siip, il database mondiale capace di identificare chi viene intercettato dalle forze dell’ordine e individuarne genere, età, lingua e dialetto
Le etichette mentali ci fanno semplificare molte cose. Alcune volte anche troppo. Come in questo caso: quando è che open è davvero open.
Money quote: “"I believe that open source doesn't just mean the code is readable without authorization. It means something much bigger." What do you mean by "open source"? “
https://www.yegor256.com/2018/05/08/open-source-attributes.amp.html
Money quote: “"I believe that open source doesn't just mean the code is readable without authorization. It means something much bigger." What do you mean by "open source"? “
https://www.yegor256.com/2018/05/08/open-source-attributes.amp.html
Yegor Bugayenko
An Open Code Base Is Not Yet an Open Source Project
Making your code base visible to everyone doesn't make it an open source project yet; there are a number of important things you shouldn't forget to do.
Un’intera letteratura, anzi quel che resta di una letteratura. Codificata con Excel. Anzi, con degli abachi. Anzi, con corde e nodi. Benvenuti tra i misteri poveri degli Inca.
Money quote: “Using locally available materials such as camelid fleece and cotton, the khipukamayuqs (Quechua for ‘knot-makers/animators’) encoded administrative data such as census figures and tax allocation in the twisted strings of these ancient spreadsheets. The Inka bureaucrats used these data to keep tabs on the largest empire in the pre-Columbian Americas. We have known for about a century that the accounting khipus follow a base-10 knot scheme (imagine an abacus made out of string). However, these quantitative khipus account for only about two-thirds of the samples remaining today. The remaining third of these devices – the so-called narrative khipus – appear to contain encoded non-numerical, narrative information, including names, stories and even ancient philosophies. For those who love puzzles, the narrative khipus are a godsend.”
https://aeon.co/ideas/the-khipu-code-the-knotty-mystery-of-the-inkas-3d-records
Money quote: “Using locally available materials such as camelid fleece and cotton, the khipukamayuqs (Quechua for ‘knot-makers/animators’) encoded administrative data such as census figures and tax allocation in the twisted strings of these ancient spreadsheets. The Inka bureaucrats used these data to keep tabs on the largest empire in the pre-Columbian Americas. We have known for about a century that the accounting khipus follow a base-10 knot scheme (imagine an abacus made out of string). However, these quantitative khipus account for only about two-thirds of the samples remaining today. The remaining third of these devices – the so-called narrative khipus – appear to contain encoded non-numerical, narrative information, including names, stories and even ancient philosophies. For those who love puzzles, the narrative khipus are a godsend.”
https://aeon.co/ideas/the-khipu-code-the-knotty-mystery-of-the-inkas-3d-records
Aeon
The khipu code: the knotty mystery of the Inkas’ 3D records | Aeon Ideas
The Inkas’ mysterious knotted khipus were a 3D record-keeping code so sophisticated, we still haven’t managed to crack it
Pensavate che la depressione fosse il male del nostro tempo, soprattutto se siete persone ragionevoli che votano a sinistra e rispettano l’ambiente. E invece c’è di peggio: ecco a voi l’accidia: demone medievale (i monaci che vivevano sulle colonne nel deserto ben la conoscevano) che si aggira ancora tra di noi.
Money quote: ““The demon of acedia — also called the noonday demon — is the one that causes the most serious trouble of all…He makes it seem that the sun barely moves, if at all, and…he instills in the heart of the monk a hatred for the place, a hatred for his very life itself.”
Many of the desert monks found themselves in the same place as my friend. Work in the morning, but by noon, they despised the repetitive nature of chores or work. After some time in this condition, they felt little zeal for life. Prayer stopped, sleeping increased, and they felt numb. Eventually, they despised life itself as they spiraled into a dark hole.”
https://blog.heartsupport.com/you-might-not-actually-be-struggling-with-depression-8ce57ab41f66
Money quote: ““The demon of acedia — also called the noonday demon — is the one that causes the most serious trouble of all…He makes it seem that the sun barely moves, if at all, and…he instills in the heart of the monk a hatred for the place, a hatred for his very life itself.”
Many of the desert monks found themselves in the same place as my friend. Work in the morning, but by noon, they despised the repetitive nature of chores or work. After some time in this condition, they felt little zeal for life. Prayer stopped, sleeping increased, and they felt numb. Eventually, they despised life itself as they spiraled into a dark hole.”
https://blog.heartsupport.com/you-might-not-actually-be-struggling-with-depression-8ce57ab41f66
Medium
You Might Not Actually Be Struggling With Depression
But you may be dealing with depression’s lesser known evil twin
Fenomenologia della vita e metafisica di Hemingway. Non necessariamente in quest’ordine.
Money quote: “My point in showing this part of Hemingway’s process isn’t just to definitively disprove the myth — partly of Hemingway’s own making — that great writing is something that flows intuitively from the brain of a genius (no, great writing is a slow, painstaking process, even for geniuses). My point is to give some perspective on one of Hemingway’s most profound insights, one that he, considering his tragic suicide some 32 years later, struggled to fully integrate into his life.
The world is a cruel and harsh place”
https://medium.com/s/story/how-to-recover-when-the-world-breaks-you-94a423b7586d
Money quote: “My point in showing this part of Hemingway’s process isn’t just to definitively disprove the myth — partly of Hemingway’s own making — that great writing is something that flows intuitively from the brain of a genius (no, great writing is a slow, painstaking process, even for geniuses). My point is to give some perspective on one of Hemingway’s most profound insights, one that he, considering his tragic suicide some 32 years later, struggled to fully integrate into his life.
The world is a cruel and harsh place”
https://medium.com/s/story/how-to-recover-when-the-world-breaks-you-94a423b7586d
Medium
How To Recover When The World Breaks You
We all break. The key is to become strong in the broken places.
Storytelling come se non ci fosse un domani
Money quote: “Essentially, when you start telling a story, your reader’s brain snaps to attention and becomes re-engaged in your writing. The more detailed and denoscriptive the language you use, the better.”
https://medium.com/the-mission/how-to-strengthen-your-writing-with-one-simple-technique-37ab13eaf83c
Money quote: “Essentially, when you start telling a story, your reader’s brain snaps to attention and becomes re-engaged in your writing. The more detailed and denoscriptive the language you use, the better.”
https://medium.com/the-mission/how-to-strengthen-your-writing-with-one-simple-technique-37ab13eaf83c
Medium
How to Strengthen Your Writing with One Simple Technique
Use these two magic words
Abbiamo un problema anche con le banane: rischio estinzione. Mai un gioia, eh.
Money quote: “However, the banana that people ate in the early 20th century was not the one we know today. There are hundreds of edible banana varieties, but to standardise production, banana companies selected a single type to grow: the Gros Michel, a large, flavourful banana. Gros Michel did well up until the 1950s. But then a fungus known as Fusarium wilt, or Panama disease, rapidly infected entire plantations, and caused a global collapse in the banana trade. The industry quickly found a replacement, a banana resistant to Panama disease, called the Cavendish. But while these new bananas were filling a growing Western appetite, Cavendish suffered from the same flaw that brought down Gros Michel: monoculture”
https://aeon.co/ideas/bananas-nearly-went-extinct-before-dont-let-it-happen-again
Money quote: “However, the banana that people ate in the early 20th century was not the one we know today. There are hundreds of edible banana varieties, but to standardise production, banana companies selected a single type to grow: the Gros Michel, a large, flavourful banana. Gros Michel did well up until the 1950s. But then a fungus known as Fusarium wilt, or Panama disease, rapidly infected entire plantations, and caused a global collapse in the banana trade. The industry quickly found a replacement, a banana resistant to Panama disease, called the Cavendish. But while these new bananas were filling a growing Western appetite, Cavendish suffered from the same flaw that brought down Gros Michel: monoculture”
https://aeon.co/ideas/bananas-nearly-went-extinct-before-dont-let-it-happen-again
Aeon
Bananas have died out once before – don’t let it happen again
Most bananas are genetic clones and vulnerable to extinction. They nearly died out before: can we stop it happening again?
Gli Electric Scooter dell’articolo sono i monopattini elettrici. Avevo già condiviso una storia qualche settimana fa sul servizio di sharing Birdie o come si chiama. Attenzione, secondo me questa diventa una cosa seria (da noi, norme sull’utilizzo nel codice della strada permettendo).
https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/561440/
https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/561440/
Internet è un posto strano. Anche il mondo analogico lo è, solo che l’accesso e lo storytelling nella realtà degli atomi hanno una frizione maggiore di quella dei bit. Il combinato disposto del digitale è veramente singolare, almeno rispetto all’esperienza di un maschio bianco nato in Italia quando i bit erano pochi e grossi come mosconi che li potevi quasi vedere a occhio nudo. (In questo frangente, è proprio il caso di dirlo)
Money quote: “This isn’t your garden-variety revenge porn story. I wish a disgruntled ex had posted a video of me masturbating on the internet. That would be easier to explain. But this is more deviant. More shameful.”
https://medium.com/s/darkish-web/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-make-peace-with-my-revenge-porn-b47a164eee59
Money quote: “This isn’t your garden-variety revenge porn story. I wish a disgruntled ex had posted a video of me masturbating on the internet. That would be easier to explain. But this is more deviant. More shameful.”
https://medium.com/s/darkish-web/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-make-peace-with-my-revenge-porn-b47a164eee59
Medium
Response to
In loving memory of 30 horrible minutes on ChatRoulette
Questa persona è semplicemente folle. Ma lucida, eh.
Money quote: “This practice became my new UI. As soon as I started using it, everything changed: this system prompts me to set goals and track my progress, and broadens my perspective of the overall process. At the same time, it turns my emotions into fuel, giving me motivation, aesthetic pleasure and fun”
https://betterhumans.coach.me/draft-how-to-hack-your-brain-to-achieve-consistency-that-lasts-7f5fdc520d28
Money quote: “This practice became my new UI. As soon as I started using it, everything changed: this system prompts me to set goals and track my progress, and broadens my perspective of the overall process. At the same time, it turns my emotions into fuel, giving me motivation, aesthetic pleasure and fun”
https://betterhumans.coach.me/draft-how-to-hack-your-brain-to-achieve-consistency-that-lasts-7f5fdc520d28
Medium
Minimalist Journaling: A Fun and Effective Tool for Tremendous Habit Change
How to create your own habit dashboard that motivates you to stick to any habit
Compare il porno in Super Mario Odyssey, lo racconta Polygon
Money quote: “DevMenu appears to have been leaked to the public after a member of the Switch hacking community purchased a developer kit on eBay. A poster on the Switch Haxing subreddit and GBAtemp forums said they bought a “defective” Switch from a seller, which turned out to be an EDEV unit — a console intended for software developers. The buyer has since deleted their original Reddit post in which they asked what they should do with it; multiple posters suggested sending it or dumping its software data so homebrew developers and hackers could study it. It appears that shortly afterward, a torrent containing the EDEV unit’s data was uploaded to an anonymous storage service”
https://www.polygon.com/platform/amp/2018/6/22/17494552/nintendo-switch-hack-super-mario-odyssey-luigis-balloon-world
Money quote: “DevMenu appears to have been leaked to the public after a member of the Switch hacking community purchased a developer kit on eBay. A poster on the Switch Haxing subreddit and GBAtemp forums said they bought a “defective” Switch from a seller, which turned out to be an EDEV unit — a console intended for software developers. The buyer has since deleted their original Reddit post in which they asked what they should do with it; multiple posters suggested sending it or dumping its software data so homebrew developers and hackers could study it. It appears that shortly afterward, a torrent containing the EDEV unit’s data was uploaded to an anonymous storage service”
https://www.polygon.com/platform/amp/2018/6/22/17494552/nintendo-switch-hack-super-mario-odyssey-luigis-balloon-world
Polygon
Why porn is showing up in Super Mario Odyssey
Hackers have found a way to upload custom profile pictures
Lui era orrendo prima ed è orrendo adesso. Però adesso ha una nuova consapevolezza: così, in questo modo, potrebbe fondare il “culto degli orrendi” senza problema. Secondo me c’è gente che lo seguirebbe.
Money quote: “My appearance no longer controls me because I’m in control of my life. I’ve changed the way I think not the way I appear. This has led to happiness rather than the appearance game that can never be won.”
https://medium.com/the-mission/how-to-not-let-your-appearance-control-your-life-1d8ddad85bf9
Una nota a margine: ma sono io che sto andando in burnout di letture su Medium oppure questi scrivono tutti uguali? Frasi corte e sincopate, argomentazioni meccaniche da terza media, ripetizione di concetti a blocchi per rafforzare i blocchi precedenti. Boh.
Money quote: “My appearance no longer controls me because I’m in control of my life. I’ve changed the way I think not the way I appear. This has led to happiness rather than the appearance game that can never be won.”
https://medium.com/the-mission/how-to-not-let-your-appearance-control-your-life-1d8ddad85bf9
Una nota a margine: ma sono io che sto andando in burnout di letture su Medium oppure questi scrivono tutti uguali? Frasi corte e sincopate, argomentazioni meccaniche da terza media, ripetizione di concetti a blocchi per rafforzare i blocchi precedenti. Boh.
Medium
How To Not Let Your Appearance Control Your Life.
Growing up I had many appearance issues. My teeth were crooked, I had bad acne all over my body and I was underweight.
Storia di un pallone da calcio che è l’unico sopravvissuto all’esplosione dello shuttle Challenger e poi è tornato nello spazio, della sua famiglia di origine e di un tremendo e drammatico incidente che è rimasto come una luce troppo brillante guardata troppo a lungo inciso per sempre nella retina di una generazione.
http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/23902766/nasa-astronaut-ellison-onizuka-soccer-ball-survived-challenger-explosion
http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/23902766/nasa-astronaut-ellison-onizuka-soccer-ball-survived-challenger-explosion
ESPN.com
The inside story of the soccer ball that survived the Challenger explosion
On Jan. 28,1986, the space shuttle Challenger stunned the nation when it broke apart 73 seconds into flight. This is the story of the soccer ball that survived -- and the family that sent it into space, twice.
Forwarded from Mobilize!
👣 Da militanti ad attivisti: come cambia il volontariato
Scrive Stefano Laffi su Che Fare: “C’è una dimensione politica intatta, ovvero l’urgenza di cambiare in meglio qualcosa nel mondo, e di attivisti continuano ad essercene. Buon segno, vuol dire che non si è persa la speranza, che le persone continuano a sognare”.
Ma "Se il volontariato diventa l’occasione per fare esperienza, cambia tutto: saltano le appartenenze, le adesioni morali e ideali, perché a quel punto vale la pena provare un po’ tutto; saltano le fedeltà pluriennali, i tempi lunghi, a favore delle stagioni, del mordi e fuggi, cioè di una strategie di sperimentazioni di sé per il tempo necessario a capire."
Lo scriveva anche Beth Kanter nel suo The Networked Non Profit, nel 2010: “Millennials are passionate about causes, but non passionate about non profit organizations”.
Per approfondire: https://www.che-fare.com/volontariato-militanza-attivismo/
Scrive Stefano Laffi su Che Fare: “C’è una dimensione politica intatta, ovvero l’urgenza di cambiare in meglio qualcosa nel mondo, e di attivisti continuano ad essercene. Buon segno, vuol dire che non si è persa la speranza, che le persone continuano a sognare”.
Ma "Se il volontariato diventa l’occasione per fare esperienza, cambia tutto: saltano le appartenenze, le adesioni morali e ideali, perché a quel punto vale la pena provare un po’ tutto; saltano le fedeltà pluriennali, i tempi lunghi, a favore delle stagioni, del mordi e fuggi, cioè di una strategie di sperimentazioni di sé per il tempo necessario a capire."
Lo scriveva anche Beth Kanter nel suo The Networked Non Profit, nel 2010: “Millennials are passionate about causes, but non passionate about non profit organizations”.
Per approfondire: https://www.che-fare.com/volontariato-militanza-attivismo/
cheFare
Il volontariato che cambia: addio militanza, benvenuto attivismo
Il volontariato cambia faccia, la gratificazione ora sta nel partecipare, non nell’appartenere, e questo cambia il gioco di potere.
Forwarded from Fumettologica
Sorpresa: abbiamo aggiornato la nostra piattaforma e il nostro aspetto. Per offrirvi un sito più vivace, più veloce e visivamente ancora più pimpante. Buona nuova Fumettologica:
http://www.fumettologica.it/2018/08/fumettologica-sito-grafica/
http://www.fumettologica.it/2018/08/fumettologica-sito-grafica/
Fumettologica
Fumettologica: nuovo sito, nuova grafica - Fumettologica
È arrivato il momento di aggiornare la nostra piattaforma e il nostro aspetto. Per offrirvi un sito più veloce e visivamente ancora più pimpante.
Era ovvio che dovesse succedere. Manovalanza al posto di algoritmi, perché non sempre il computer funziona e comunque alcune cose si fa prima (e costa meno) farle a mano. La domanda però è un’altra: in questi casi c’è davvero valore? Perché le startup si giudicano da quello...
Money quote: “It’s hard to build a service powered by artificial intelligence. So hard, in fact, that some startups have worked out it’s cheaper and easier to get humans to behave like robots than it is to get machines to behave like humans”
https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/06/artificial-intelligence-ai-humans-bots-tech-companies
Money quote: “It’s hard to build a service powered by artificial intelligence. So hard, in fact, that some startups have worked out it’s cheaper and easier to get humans to behave like robots than it is to get machines to behave like humans”
https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/06/artificial-intelligence-ai-humans-bots-tech-companies
the Guardian
The rise of 'pseudo-AI': how tech firms quietly use humans to do bots' work
Using what one expert calls a ‘Wizard of Oz technique’, some companies keep their reliance on humans a secret from investors
A me non piace il calcio né la cultura che ha costruito attorno a sé. Ma una storia come questa non è legata tanto al tipo di ascensore sociale da prendere: la chiave ovviamente non è quella. Il calcio era il frutto maturo che pendeva più in basso tra le fronte dell’albero della vita. Per altri magari è un altro frutto velenoso, illegale. Per altri chissà, un altro sogno, un altro frutto. Ma è esemplare il gesto della mano, la sua fermezza, la volontà che c’è dietro, la motivazione e l’azione: quello conta.
Money quote: “I was six years old, and I came home for lunch during our break at school. My mum had the same thing on the menu every single day: Bread and milk. When you’re a kid, you don’t even think about it. But I guess that’s what we could afford.
Then this one day I came home, and I walked into the kitchen, and I saw my mum at the refrigerator with the box of milk, like normal. But this time she was mixing something in with it. She was shaking it all up, you know? I didn’t understand what was going on. Then she brought my lunch over to me, and she was smiling like everything was cool. But I realized right away what was going on.”
https://www.theplayerstribune.com/en-us/articles/romelu-lukaku-ive-got-some-things-to-say
Money quote: “I was six years old, and I came home for lunch during our break at school. My mum had the same thing on the menu every single day: Bread and milk. When you’re a kid, you don’t even think about it. But I guess that’s what we could afford.
Then this one day I came home, and I walked into the kitchen, and I saw my mum at the refrigerator with the box of milk, like normal. But this time she was mixing something in with it. She was shaking it all up, you know? I didn’t understand what was going on. Then she brought my lunch over to me, and she was smiling like everything was cool. But I realized right away what was going on.”
https://www.theplayerstribune.com/en-us/articles/romelu-lukaku-ive-got-some-things-to-say
The Players' Tribune
I've Got Some Things to Say
People in football love to talk about mental strength. Well, I’m the strongest dude you’re ever going to meet.