Some more unpleasantness leading off today as VentureBeat reports on the DDoS attack on GitHub continuing and evolving. Also from VentureBeat, Google has started morphing some of Google+ as photos and videos are now available in Google Drive. By itself, this is not a big thing, but we know that Google has not been thrilled… Read More Geek Reading March 31, 2015
Mostly unpleasant news to lead our day. Zynga is now facing a lawsuit regarding potential fraud tied to its IPO. This could be interesting because it could make things a little harder for later IPOs. Slack reports that their user database was hacked. Thankfully, it does not sound like any confidential information was stolen. As… Read More Geek Reading March 30, 2015
Backchannel starts our day with a discussion of the three phases of consumer products. If you are a startup in the consumer space, you should definitely read it. For the second day in a row Valeria Maltoni, writing at Conversation Agent, gives us some excellent content. Today she talks about how access has more value… Read More Geek Reading March 27, 2015
Leading off today, MIT News announces that Michael Stonebraker wins the Turing Award. He is one of the leading database researchers and the award is probably overdue. Valeria Maltoni, writing at Conversation Agent, talks about taking good advice, not just listening to it. There are a lot of development articles today as well. In particular,… Read More Geek Reading March 26, 2015
Today we have a few top stories for you. First, Apple announced their acquisition of FoundationDB. I am curious what this purchase is really about, but we will have to wait and see. Both Sides of the Table brings us an interview with Fred Wilson that is very informative. Lastly, Seth Godin talks about how… Read More Geek Reading March 25, 2015
To start for today, we have Job Tips For Geeks talking about stupid recruiter tricks, specifically about “where are you interviewing?”. If you have interviewed as a software developer, you have likely been asked this question. FastML follows on their original post on the fear of AI, continuing to tell us there is nothing to… Read More Geek Reading March 24, 2015
As always, the weekend brings us a lot of information. First, Brad Feld talks about CEOs having anxiety attacks. Anxiety, stress and depression are rampant in startups and fairly common in our industry. Brad Feld is one of the few that talks through all of this. Threatpost lets us know that all major browsers fell… Read More Geek Reading March 23, 2015
Seth Godin leads us off with a good post on the difference between commitment and technique. Obviously, this applies to almost all parts of life, you can have the proper technique, but without commitment, you will not be as successful as you could be. Techipedia, the home of Tamar Weinberg, has a similar topic today… Read More Geek Reading March 20, 2015
Just in case you did not think mobile payments were about to take off, Facebook introduces friend-to-friend payments. Clearly, Facebook wants some skin in the game before the industry really gets going. GigaOm may be gone, but the Structure conference went on because the attendees organized their own conference. This is interesting for a few… Read More Geek Reading March 19, 2015
Today we have yet another Docker article, this one on Javalobby discussing how to build an environment you can trust. Docker as a quick developer environment has always been appealing, so it is definitely a good post to read. At Yeller they talk about how incuriosity will kill your infrastructure. Basically, if something doesn’t look… Read More Geek Reading March 18, 2015
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