Maybe I'm getting old, but nowadays, each time I read about some new startup/tech idea, I end up thinking about the classic Jurassic Park quote: “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they *could* that they didn’t stop to think if they *should*.” #tech

As an Italian, Americans would always stop me to ask how I could vote for someone like Berlusconi. I could only say I had no idea as I never voted for him. I think what we didn't understood was that, with enough control of the information, an appearance of a successful businessman, enough charisma and money you can easily convince an important part of the population to vote for you independently of all the bad things you do. The right wing parties of the world took note, while most of the left wing parties are still thinking the world hasn't changed since the nineties. This is a really sad day. #uspol

I sometime think we care too much about our writing speed in programming. A lot of our editors and tools are set to make writing the actual program as fast as possible. And yet there are few tools that help with the most difficult part of programming like understanding the code, the task/problem domain, explore the solution set... #programming #ide