We have lots to share today! First, Expedia buys Orbitz for $1.6 billion. This is news more because it is so rare to see purchases of that magnitude. There are a few good articles on some advanced concepts, the central limit theorem, bayes theorem and paxos, a consensus algorithm. These concepts drive a lot of… Read More Geek Reading February 13, 2015
We start with Seth Godin talking about sunk costs, but more in the personal decisions space. Mozilla brings us a post about NetGain and the open internet. There are two startup related articles, but they can really apply to almost any business. First, Martin Buberl tells us why every startup should have a culture manifesto.… Read More Geek Reading February 12, 2015
Today we have more security related stories than normal. Google decides to partner with Microsoft to fight false positives in the antivirus industry. Tech Crunch reports on the bad side of things when a security researcher dumps 10 million real passwords. Probably my favorite story of the day is about automating Tinder with eigenfaces. With… Read More Geek Reading February 11, 2015
Two fairly big announcements for today. Apple releases Swift 1.2, which hopefully makes some developers happier. Google decides to move to HTTP/2 and away from SPDY. Much of the SPDY improvements are part of HTTP/2, so this is probably a good thing. There are a few good articles in the performance section below, all of… Read More Geek Reading February 10, 2015
One of the more interesting articles from this weekend is the announcement of Ecuador rolling out its own digital currency. I am definitely curious to see how this evolves. Julia Evans describes her understanding of A/A testing for machine learning. Soroush Pour explains the difference between concurrency and parallelism in Go using Monte Carlo simulations… Read More Geek Reading February 9, 2015
Well, there was one really big story today, health insurer Anthem being hacked. A huge number of records with personal information. Definitely keep an eye on that story as it develops. Flowing Data gives us some more excellent data visualizations, one regarding the percentage female population in some other countries and one regarding the measles… Read More Geek Reading February 6, 2015
Lots of news today! First, Under Armour buys MyFitnessPal. This is interesting because it is a nice set of software, but got purchased for $475 million. Is some consolidation coming? There were tons of articles about Net Neutrality, and I have included the post from Mozilla. Google announces the .how TLD, which is just cool… Read More Geek Reading February 5, 2015
Not a large number of articles today, but always quality. First, Brad Feld leads off with an interesting idea of a 40% rule for startups, talking about the mix of growth and profit. MongoDB announced MongoDB 3.0, which is important because there are some really good features in this release. It sounds like they are… Read More Geek Reading February 4, 2015
Some very cool news today, Raspberry Pi 2 is announced and stays the same price but is a big upgrade. Seth Godin drops some genius, but the money quote is in the last line, “if you fail to invest the time and effort to find a better path, it’s unlikely you’ll find one.” On Javalobby,… Read More Geek Reading February 3, 2015
Today we have a big pile of articles from the weekend. Google Ventures announces the availability of the design sprint site. Christian Heilmann talks about feeling like a fraud as he starts a new job. This is a good read for the rest of us whose resume does not look like Christian’s. On Javalobby there… Read More Geek Reading February 2, 2015
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