k… the Nokia Asha 303 got it… hardware is awesome, but the integration with Contacts / Calendars / Mail sucks terribly… :( (( #FAIL

da leggere sino in fondo…

http://corrierecomunicazioni.it/news/86194/lavoro_fuggetta_dellict_non_si_pu_fare_a_meno

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.

~ Robert Fritz Quotes

Pfand

Ma perche’ da noi il Pfand non viene applicato? E’ una tassa sugli imballaggi delle bibite. Sia che siano di vetro, sia che siano di plastica. Pochi centesimi, che il negozio ti deve rimborsare se gli riporti il contenitore vuoto, ma integro. Se non lo fai perdi quei soldi… il piu’ delle volte vedo barboni che raccolgono per le strade bottigliette e lattine lasciate abbandonate. Non e’ solo un modo per tenere pulita la citta’, e’ un modo anche per lasciar raccimolare qualche spicciolo a chi un lavoro non lo ha o non puo’ averlo, senza che debbano chiedere l’elemosina. E’ un Win Win, per usare un termine in voga nel marketing. Perche’ in Italia non lo applichiamo?

Wikipedia: vuoto a rendere

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Why opensource?

Start from a specific situation: you are on a tight schedule, with pressure from management to approve or prove an issue on the software release being tested, and the counterpart R&D team blames you that the metrics are wrong. Actually, you check the application and they are right… looking into the source code u see the bug, u fix it, and within hours u are back on the main business, finalizing the testing activity. Now, what would have happened with a proprietary testing tool? You couldn’t have checked the code. You would have had to argue with the ur R&D team about the existence of the issue, and with the vendor on the other side. Project would have been delayed or QA totally skipped, with all the risk it takes having a potentially broken release in production. Is it worth the money of the proprietary tool? I preferred to convince my management to spend in R&D resources in my team, and get a solution we could trust. It has proven to be a good choice

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Offerte di lavoro

Ho appena aperto il Berlin Morgenpost, e vi ho trovato un inserto di 63 pagine, scritto fitto fitto, pieno di annunci di lavoro. Offerte vere, non quelle cagate che si leggono tra gli annunci in Italia. Sono appena arrivato con un volo da 40€ con Ryanair da Milano/Bergamo, che cosa aspettano i miei coetanei? O meglio, che cosa aspetta la classe dirigente italiana a darsi una mossa prima che la gabbia sia vuota? Lasciata priva di un’intera generazione che e’ stata formata e cresciuta in territorio italiano? Nessuno si sta rendendo conto che stanno perdendo una fraccata di gente con formazione medio alta? Yuhuuu… svegliaaaa…

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around the world

k, they just took down the record of sailing across the globe, without any stop, to 45 days… but, meh… from the perspective of doing “circumnavigation” of the world, they made a pretty strange path I would have done something like the arrows I marked down, passing by Suez and Panama channels. Yes, this would have been delaying the enterprise, but seriously… crossing Cape Horn and Cape of Good Hope, come on… that was a challenge for the 17th century with wood boats, not for the carbon fiber monster used these days. Anyhow, if u look at the map, 90% of the fun was some long fast rides in the middle of the ocean: the dots on the colored paths are day markers, as u can see a long distance between dots, means they were going fast like hell

ref: “Un’imbarcazione francese ha effettuato il periplo in 45 giorni“, Corriere della Sera
ref: “le Maxi Trimaran Banque Populaire V s’empare du Trophée Jules Verne“, Banque Populaire

anyhow… KUDOs to these guys ;-)

p.s. they were doing 30 knots of speed… amazing :D

k, u need to click on the listing’s icon to see it…