L’articolo più letto su GQ UK?

Money quote: “What should a man put as his Tinder picture?”

https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/male-tinder-pictures-tips

È noioso come la Svizzera o i paesi scandinavi. Ma almeno non è tossico. Ecco perché dovremmo tutti lasciare Twitter e andare su Tumblr.

Money quote: “What made Tumblr so great? Again, I think about it in comparison with Twitter, and have pulled out a few reasons”

https://theoutline.com/post/5811/why-tumblr-is-better-than-twitter-and-we-should-bring-it-back

La resilienza è fondamentale per superare i rifiuti, artistici o meno, che la vita ci riserva. Bisogna insistere anziché farsi scoraggiare. Always.

Come cambiare la propria vita con venti minuti al giorno di scrittura strutturata. E una secchiata di truismi.

Money quote: “You’d think that sitting down and putting pen to paper wouldn’t be that life-changing of a practice.
But trust me, without it you wouldn’t be reading this. I wouldn’t have 21,000 followers — heck, I wouldn’t even be on Medium”

https://medium.com/the-mission/how-to-become-more-self-aware-in-under-20-minutes-968268c53ffd

Apple, trovata una vulnerabilità nel sistema di gestione di Mac e apparecchi iOS per le aziende - il mio articolo per La Stampa

https://www.lastampa.it/2018/10/03/tecnologia/apple-trovata-una-vulnerabilit-nel-sistema-di-gestione-di-mac-e-apparecchi-ios-per-le-aziende-YhMBA93nnOMPB4xDveUEDK/pagina.html

Ibm aveva un progetto estremamente ambizioso: Watson, la risposta alla domanda di intelligenza artificiale del mercato. Ma le cose stanno andando parecchio male. E c’è un perché. Anzi, più di uno.

Money quote: “IBM is shrinking: In 2011, when the company first introduced the idea that Watson might be able to one day cure cancer, its revenues were $107 billion. They’ve gotten smaller every year since, ending up at $79 billion in 2017. That presents enormous problems for any CEO, who’s generally charged with growing the company, or, failing that, growing the stock price.”

https://slate.com/business/2018/08/ibms-watson-how-the-ai-project-to-improve-cancer-treatment-went-wrong.html

E se il vero problema dell’America fosse che, dieci anni dopo, ancora sono sotto con la crisi finanziaria del 2007-2008?

Money quote: “It’s not hard to pinpoint the dawn of this deep gloom: It arrived in September 2008, when the collapse of Lehman Brothers kicked off the Great Recession that proved to be a more lasting existential threat to America than the terrorist attack of seven Septembers earlier. The shadow it would cast is so dark that a decade later, even our current run of ostensible prosperity and peace does not mitigate the one conviction that still unites all Americans: Everything in the country is broken.”

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/08/america-10-years-after-the-financial-crisis.html

Ci vuole un fisico bestiale. Oppure un consulente che metta assieme dieci trucchetti per riuscire a fortificare la propria mente, cioè il proprio spirito.

Money quote: “Mental strength and inner peace go hand in hand. Mentally strong people are confident that they can handle whatever life throws their way.

That's not to say they don't feel pain or that they don't get sad--they experience their emotions on a deep level. But they don't waste energy wishing things were different or trying to change other people. They stay focused on managing their own thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

They also make self-improvement a priority, because they know there's always room for improvement”

https://www.inc.com/amy-morin/10-things-mentally-strong-people-give-up-to-gain-inner-peace.html

Avete presente la Terra di Mezzo di Tolkien? Il progetto ArdaCraft la sta ricreando. Con Minecraft. Una festa per gli occhi.

https://ardacraft.me/

L’appendicetomia, cioè l'operazione per togliere una appendice infiammata, ovvero una appendicite acuta, serve ancora?

A quando pare basterebbe un po' di antibiotico per eliminare una procedura vecchia di più di un secolo.

Money quote: "“This long-term follow-up supports the feasibility of antibiotic treatment alone as an alternative to surgery for uncomplicated acute appendicitis,” the authors conclude."

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/09/after-century-of-removing-appendixes-docs-find-antibiotics-can-be-enough

Una vita intera… in sei minuti! Alla faccia della sintesi

Scusa iPhone XS: io aspetto iPhone XR - il mio articolo per Macity

https://www.macitynet.it/iphone-xr-contro-iphone-xs-conviene-aspettare/

Microchip spia made in China? Non c’è niente da stupirsi, dice l’esperto - il mio articolo per La Stampa

http://www.lastampa.it/2018/10/06/tecnologia/microchip-spia-made-in-china-non-c-niente-da-stupirsi-dice-lesperto-kOS3kGQ2VBJVRDWP0n9eOM/premium.html

Ufficio nuovo? Vecchio ufficio da rinnovare? Un po' di consigli utili per qunto riguarda la connettività soprattutto WiFi e la gestione degli apparecchi. Bello!

Money quote: "Our team just moved to a larger office in downtown San Francisco. On moving day, I was shocked to discover a bundle of rough-cut unterminated ethernet cables on one end, ripped-out punch-down jacks on the other, no uplink, and no Wi-Fi!

There’s no IT team at startups, and as software engineers, we might be called on to step up in a pinch. Here’s a smorgasbord of suggestions — some well-known and others obscure — that helped me get a reliable network running fast."

https://triplebyte.com/blog/how-triplebyte-solved-its-office-wifi-problems

Se avete iniziato a giocare prima con le macchine virtuali e poi con i container (e sarebbe ora che lo faceste) sarete arrivati al limite, cioè a Kubernetes, al sistema di orchestrazione degli sciami di container. Che si dice abbia senso solo se gestite cluster di server. Ma non è vero. Forse non lo sapete, ma andare nel cloud anche per un progetto personale che gira su poche macchine, costa veramente poco. Tipo cinque dollari al mese. E funziona che sembra sparato con il cannone.

Money quote: "At the beginning of the year I spent several months deep diving on Kubernetes for a project at work. As an all-inclusive, batteries-included technology for infrastructure management, Kubernetes solves many of the problems you're bound to run into at scale. However popular wisdom would suggest that Kubernetes is an overly complex piece of technology only really suitable for very large clusters of machines; that it carries a large operational burden and that therefore using it for anything less than dozens of machines is overkill.

I think that's probably wrong. Kubernetes makes sense for small projects and you can have your own Kubernetes cluster today for as little as $5 a month."

http://www.doxsey.net/blog/kubernetes--the-surprisingly-affordable-platform-for-personal-projects

Cara Apple, fammi un MacBook così - il mio articolo per Macity

https://www.macitynet.it/cara-apple-fammi-un-macbook-cosi/

Avete presente Street View di Google Maps? Ecco, mettendosi d'impegno e usando centinaia di fotografie trovate non so come, hanno fatto questa fantastica Street View di Manhattan anni Ottanta. Spettacolare!

http://80s.nyc/#show/40.6215/-73.9895

Ok, come me, avete lasciato Facebook. Però ci sono problemi a restare fuori, perché tutti gli altri sono dentro. Soprattutto gli sconosciuti. Come fare? Ecco dei suggerimenti per il tossico sulla via della guarigione. (Il mio personale è: esci da Facebook e dimenticalo: Facebook non esiste)

Money quote: "I quit Facebook in 2010 and I’ve never missed it. I text with friends and family I want to keep in touch with. I’ve even started writing letters again.

I have a handful of people I love keeping in touch with, so I just keep in touch with them. I don’t need to use Facebook to do that. I don’t need them to steal any more of my data for the arguable convenience it provides."

https://medium.com/s/story/how-to-quit-facebook-for-good-from-10-people-who-have-76658c8b6ed8

Intervista a Tom Leighton, vincitore del Marconi Prize 2018 - il mio articolo per Wired.it

https://www.wired.it/attualita/tech/2018/10/08/akamai-tom-leighton-marconi-prize-2018/

Self help sentimentale da parte di gente che non fa neanche finta di avere le qualifiche (peraltro inesistenti) per erogarlo. Fantastico. E poi l'argomento: la piramide dei bisogni di Maslow come chiave per la costruzione di una relazione (a senso unico) soddisfacente. C'è dentro tutto, manca forse solo un riferimento esplicito ad Ayn Rand e siamo a posto.

Money quote: "People in a relationship are generally in it for the benefits of having a whole spectrum of their needs fulfilled. Which means, they have to be able to fulfil those needs for each other. Maslow comes to mind with his famous hierarchy of human needs, relatively universal for everyone. The individual ways of fulfilling these, however, changes from one person to another, from a guy to a girl, from a feminine to a masculine type, from an INTP to an ESFJ and so on. As a straight male I can only base my non-scientific expertise on the specimen of women I’ve dated."

https://psiloveyou.xyz/your-partners-needs-according-to-maslow-8a2e5f654d67

Come bonus, ecco donne che stanno accanto/dietro ai loro uomini in maniera patologica.

Money quote: "Brett Kavanaugh’s wife, Ashley Estes Kavanaugh, sits beside her husband in her conservative Sunday best, her hands and ankles crossed demurely, and says pretty much what you’d expect a wife to say when her man is accused of two instances of sexual assault. Kavanaugh, she tells Fox News, is “decent, he’s kind, he’s good,” and she doesn’t need to interrogate him."

https://melmagazine.com/a-brief-history-of-the-wife-standing-by-her-man-interview-94b5e6a0f883

Dopo due decenni passati a maneggiare email, compilare fogli excel e gestire cassetti e filze virtuali piene di documenti di vario genere da spostare, catalogare e archiviare, non posso che essere d'accordo: il computer ci rende sostanzialmente sempre più prigionieri di attività che richiedono meno competenze di quelle che si suppone siano le nostre specifiche attitudini o mansioni.

Money quote: "Deploying a technique called work value analysis, Sassone measured not only the amount of work conducted by his subjects, but also the skill level required for the work. He found that managers and other skilled professionals were spending surprisingly large percentages of their time working on tasks that could be completed by comparably lower-level employees.

He identified several factors that explain this observation, but a major culprit was the rise of “productivity-enhancing” computer systems. This new technology made it possible for managers and professionals to tackle administrative tasks that used to require dedicated support staff.

The positive impact of this change was that companies needed less support staff. The negative impact was that it reduced the ability of managers and professionals to spend concentrated time working on the things they did best."

http://calnewport.com/blog/2018/10/03/on-the-law-of-diminishing-specialization/