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Storie e pensieri suoi e di altri, raccolti da Antonio Dini http://www.antoniodini.com
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Zitta zitta Korg si sta inventando il futuro della musica a valvole. In particolare, ha inventato un nuovo tipo di valvola a triodo a bassissimo consumo (funziona anche a batteria), forma ultra compatta, ricchezza e colore del suono. Il prezzo? Non me lo chiedete, non sono andato a guardare. Preferisco coltivare i miei sogni.

Money quote: “Nutube, similar to a conventional vacuum tube, has an anode grid filament structure, and operates exactly as a triode vacuum tube. Also similar to a vacuum tube, it creates the same characteristic rich overtones. By applying their vacuum fluorescent display technology, Noritake Itron Corp., a Noritake Co. Ltd affiliated company, have devised a structure which achieves substantial power saving, miniaturization, and quality improvements when compared with a conventional vacuum tube.”

https://korgnutube.com/en/
Sono semplicemente ipnotizzato. E disgustato. Non dalla storia, ma dallo "sport"

Money quote: "The godfather of competitive eating, Takeru Kobayashi burst onto the American scene at the 2001 Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest, where the lithe 5-foot-8 Japanese 23-year-old, using a revolutionary water-dipping technique and a body-wiggling maneuver known as the “Kobayashi Shake,” ate an astounding 50 hot dogs—double the prior record. That feat thrust Kobayashi to instant superstardom, and his subsequent five wins at the famed July 4th competition only solidified his standing as the king of the eating world—a noscript he’d only officially relinquish in 2007, when American Joey Chestnut dethroned him at the Nathan’s extravaganza."

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-takeru-kobayashi-godfather-of-competitive-eating-they-were-making-a-joke-of-me
Se volete progettare una applicazione che fa uso intensivo di dati, avete bisogno di riferimenti. Questo esercizio intrigante di data visualization vi fa vedere di quali libri di riferimento avrete bisogno

Money quote: "Start Here"

https://anvaka.github.io/greview/ddia/1/
Anziché parole, diagrammi, disegni, pittogrammi e chi più ne ha più ne metta. Una notevole invenzione anche grafica di Lapham Quarterly

Money quote: “The pioneer plaque also will tell any extraterrestrial that might come across it that the beings who launched this probe use diagrams and symbols to convey ideas. And we have a long history of doing so.”

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/ideas-infographic/
Ma ci pensate? Uno dei posti migliori al mondo per fare l’hacker è il Texas...

Money quote: “North Texas has become an unexpected haven for hackers seeking not only camaraderie but paid work. There is an ecosystem here that can sustain them. The Dallas–Fort Worth area has the most available cybersecurity jobs in the nation. Community colleges and universities are building cybersecurity institutes. The area has a history—starting with Texas Instruments in 1951 and through today, when AT&T, Raytheon, and Facebook’s new data storage facilities are located nearby. All of those companies need smart programmers. And cybersecurity. They need hackers.”

https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a24676415/dallas-hackers/
A tratti forse quasi ingenuo, ma mai banale: le cose imparate in 30 anni di sviluppo software, nel modo più duro

Money quote: "Spec first, then code"

https://blog.juliobiason.net/thoughts/things-i-learnt-the-hard-way/