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Storie e pensieri suoi e di altri, raccolti da Antonio Dini http://www.antoniodini.com
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Scegliete una città, magari la vostra città, fate invio e guardate dove stava 500, 600, 700 milioni di anni fa. Anche solo 20, eh.

Fichissimo! Anche dal telefono

http://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth#66
Il suprematismo bianco è la cultura dell’élite americana, non si possono sostenere opinioni contrarie. Il faro della democrazia planetaria è una luce intermittente e talvolta alquanto ambigua.

Money quote: “But a new paper by several economists, including one directly involved in the trial, provides stark evidence that Harvard does give preferential treatment to affluent white applicants through legacy preferences and sports recruitment.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/10/harvard-university-and-scandal-sports-recruitment/599248/
La GDPR e gli Stati Uniti: le cose sono bloccate

Money quote: "More than two months after the GDPR took effect, hundreds of U.S. news websites — including digital properties operated by Tronc, Lee Enterprises and GateHouse Media — are unavailable in Europe, frustrating many American tourists, business travelers, and ex-pats as well as Europeans interested in news from the States.

“Usually, your media is seen as an example for ours. I think is safe to say that, in Portugal, there’s a big community of people that not only reads the Portuguese media but reads the U.S. press as well on a daily basis,” said Flávio Nunes, a journalist in Lisbon."

http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/08/more-than-1000-u-s-news-sites-are-still-unavailable-in-europe-two-months-after-gdpr-took-effect/
Volevo tenerla per la mia newsletter Mostly Weekly (abbonati abbonati! si parte dalle info di questo canale), ma non mi va di aspettare altri tre giorni.

Boeing è diventata una azienda tremenda sotto gli occhi di tutti. La stampa italiana però tiene i suoi lettori totalmente all'oscuro di tutto questo. Il lavoro di noi giornalisti è collegare i puntini, non solo dare le notizie crude e poi lavarsene le mani. Per quello bastano i comunicati stampa. Ritengo sia mio dovere se non altro fornire il punto di vista ultra-documentato che viene offerto ai lettori negli Usa.

In questo caso, indiscrezioni rivelano che Boeing ha rifiutato le procedure di sicurezza che avrebbero evitato i due incidenti mortali del Boeing 737 Max.

Money quote: "The ethics charge, filed by 33-year-old engineer Curtis Ewbank, whose job involved studying past crashes and using that information to make new planes safer, describes how around 2014 his group presented to managers and senior executives a proposal to add various safety upgrades to the MAX.

The complaint, a copy of which was reviewed by The Seattle Times, suggests that one of the proposed systems could have potentially prevented the crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia that killed 346 people. Three of Ewbank’s former colleagues interviewed for this story concurred.

[…]

Managers twice rejected adding the new system on the basis of “cost and potential (pilot) training impact,” the complaint states. It was then raised a third time in a meeting with 737 MAX chief project engineer, Michael Teal, who cited the same objections as he killed the proposal."

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boeing-whistleblowers-complaint-says-737-max-safety-upgrades-were-rejected-over-cost/

A luglio ne aveva scritto anche Matt Stroller:

https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/the-coming-boeing-bailout
Bombe atomiche? Il governo americano ha declassificato 210 esperimenti nucleari dell'epoca della guerra fredda, tra il 1945 e il 1962: un sacco di funghi da guardare!

Money quote: "The U.S. conducted 210 atmospheric nuclear tests between 1945 and 1962, with multiple cameras capturing each event at around 2,400 frames per second. These are the declassified films of tests conducted by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory."

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvGO_dWo8VfcmG166wKRy5z-GlJ_OQND5
Quando un curriculum era veramente un curriculum

Money quote: "My dad is 92 and we just put him in a home. I have been clearing out the house and found his resume and skills (application letter) from 1980. In case anyone is interested in what one particular old timer programmer did."

https://github.com/runvnc/dadsresume
Indovinate cosa viene fuori?

> 10 let y=int(30*sin(x*3.14/50))+50
run
Seconda parte di due articoli piuttosto interessanti su come scrivere documentazione tecnica senza essere tecnici. Qui il punto non è tanto scrivere di cose di tecnologia, quando i problemi di scrittura che vengono affrontati (approccio, stile, collaborazione).

Money quote: "In the fall of 2016, my teammate and I were tasked with the mission of improving my former company’s documentation and content. We spent a year working on all kinds of documentation — API references, guides, tutorials, and blog posts. I had been writing documentation off and on over the previous 5 years, but I wasn’t formally trained in technical writing. I was by no means inexperienced though, due to working on API documentation for projects and a startup and teaching Python Flask workshops towards the end of my computer science degree. This was the first time I had ever been able to focus on documentation, which allowed me to pursue my passion for helping people of all skill levels through technical documentation.
In that year, I learned a lot from the Write the Docs community, other API providers, and my own trials and errors. Last year, I spoke about it in a talk, “Things I Wish People Told Me About Writing Docs,” at the API Strategy and Practice Conference in Portland, OR. This multipart series is a survey of what I learned."

https://blog.stoplight.io/writing-documentation-when-you-arent-a-technical-writer-part-two-59997587cc2a
La prima volta che sono andato in Cina mi hanno detto che era quasi inutile cercare di fissare le mie impressioni, perché tanto in cinque anni sarebbe cambiato tutto come in trenta e più dei nostri.

Non so se è vero ma nel mio piccolo ho scritto già da tempo di questa trasformazione nell’uso dei media e della comunicazione, il “piano Marshall cinese” che ne disegna il sogno.

Il New York Times prende il tema da un angolo parzialmente diverso e lo fa con una emozione che non sono in grado di suscitare, ma che sono più che felice di cogliere e condividere. Lasciate correre la vostra fantasia e la vostra empatia, perché è un tema molto importante.

Money quote: “It’s easy to dismiss this outpouring of patriotism as evidence of the Communist Party’s successful brainwashing of the Chinese people, or as a result of heavy surveillance and heavy-handed tactics against dissenters.

The truth is more complex. The Communist Party indeed doesn’t hesitate to use state power to tell the Chinese people how they should think. But the displays of patriotism, especially from young people, also show that the party’s propaganda machine has mastered the power of symbol and symbolism in the mass media and social media era.

That’s why Ms. Lu can’t stop singing a song she first learned in a patriotism class in her elementary school.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/05/technology/china-propaganda-patriotism.html