«Para mi solo recorrer los caminos que tienen
  corazon, cualquier camino que tenga corazon.
  Por ahi yo recorro, y la unica prueba que
  vale es atravesar todo su largo. Y por ahi
  yo recorro mirando, mirando, sin aliento.
  (Per me c'è solo il viaggio su strade che hanno
  un cuore, qualsiasi strada abbia un cuore.
  Là io viaggio, e l'unica sfida che
  valga è attraversarla in tutta la sua lunghezza.
  Là io viaggio guardando, guardando, senza fiato.)»
    -- don Juan

 /Colonna sonora: ``Amon Tobin - Surge''/


``The UNIX Time-Sharing System'', Dennis M. Ritchie and Ken Thompson
<http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=361011.361061>
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Articolo seminale su UNIX (dopo la riscrittura in C), riprendendo alcune parti
salienti:

 «Perhaps the most important achievement of UNIX 
  is to demonstrate that a powerful operating system 
  for interactive use need not be expensive either in 
  equipment or in human effort: UNIX can run on hardware 
  costing as little as $40,000, and less than two man- 
  years were spent on the main system software. Yet 
  UNIX contains a number of features seldom offered even 
  in much larger systems. It is hoped, however, the users 
  of UNIX will find that the most important characteristics 
  of the system are its simplicity, elegance, and ease of use.»

...e:

 «Perhaps paradoxically, the success of UNIX is largely 
  due to the fact that it was not designed to meet any 
  predefined objectives. The first version was written 
  when one of us (Thompson), dissatisfied with the 
  available computer facilities, discovered a little-used 
  PDP-7 and set out to create a more hospitable environ- 
  ment.»


``Typosquatting programming language package managers'', Nikolai Tschacher
<http://incolumitas.com/2016/06/08/typosquatting-package-managers/>
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Il typosquatting è una pratica che viene utilizzata in particolare per i nomi di
dominio. In questo blog post (che in realtà è post-tesi) Nikolai Tschacher 
applica questa idee ai gestori dei pacchetti dei linguaggi di programmazione.


``Programming the ENIAC: an example of why computer history is hard'', Len Shustek
<http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/programming-the-eniac-an-example-of-why-computer-history-is-hard/>
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Interessantissima riflessione sul perché scrivere la storia dell'informatica è
difficile:

 «But it's not easy history [the computer history] to do, for several reasons.
   * It's contemporary.
   * There are no simple answers.
   * Any "first" is problematical.
   * It isn't static.»


``My Internet-Connected Home-Gadget Hell', IoS
<http://nymag.com/selectall/2016/05/my-internet-connected-home-gadget-hell.html>
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Breve riflessione sull'Internet-of-Things (esaminando alcuni casi pratici).