I normally don’t talk much about acquisitions, but the Nokia purchase of Alcatel-Lucent is for a large $16.6 Billion. You don’t see those types of deals too often, and it shows the direction that Nokia is moving in. Gina Maini talks about no longer being an inspiration, or more directly, becoming part of programming culture.… Read More Geek Reading April 16, 2015
Security leads the way for today. The next Web reports on Kaspersky and the Dutch police collaborating on a ransomware unlocker. Google’s Project Zero talks about the details of two exploits. Praetorian shows how statistics can help crack your password quicker. As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.… Read More Geek Reading April 15, 2015
Seth Godin leads us off today with a short post about the difference between hope and expectation. If people followed his advice, most programming projects would probably go smoother. On Conversation Agent, Valeria Maltoni talks about rethinking instead of minor improvements. There are some really good articles in the advanced section below as well. There… Read More Geek Reading April 14, 2015
From the development perspective, Twitter ending its partnership with DataSift does not seem like a big deal. However, this shows the fragility of any partnership with large social sites. If you are building a business based on social APIs, be very careful and have a backup plan. The security section has a few good articles… Read More Geek Reading April 13, 2015
More analysis on some research leads today’s articles. On Conversation Agent, Valeria Maltoni talks about the Adobe report and how culture is driving trends. First Round Review discusses what they wish they knew when building data products. In the *aaS section, Amazon announced multiple things, including a machine learning product and elastic file system. As… Read More Geek Reading April 10, 2015
Two excellent articles lead your reading today. First, Stack Overflow reports on their 2015 developer survey. It is an interesting look into the people that frequent the site which could be seen as a representative sample of our industry. On Road Less Travelled, we get a first hand account of one man’s experiences at Apple… Read More Geek Reading April 9, 2015
Lots of good development articles today. First, Living social shows us how to work with responsive tables in pure CSS. James Long complains about catching exceptions and promises in JavaScript. Frank McSherry talks about differential dataflow in Rust. An excellent quote (paraphrased) from the opening keynote of the conference I am attending, “Software is not… Read More Geek Reading April 8, 2015
Leading off today is another link blog, A Fresh Cup by Mike Gunderloy, which has its 1500th Double Shot post. Kudos to Mike on the longevity. Don Dodge talks about YCombinator and its unbelievable success. Most people have probably forgotten that it started in Boston. There are several good development posts as well today, so… Read More Geek Reading April 7, 2015
Lots of good articles over the weekend. First, Microsoft casually mentions that an open source Windows is “definitely possible”, and it was not an April Fool’s joke. This is definitely a different Microsoft. Coding Horror talks about how all bugs are shallow, if you throw enough money at it. It is a very good read,… Read More Geek Reading April 6, 2015
On Devlin’s Angle is a good post on the importance of mathematics in computer science education. Some people we are past this idea, but I think it is important to remember the foundation of our industry. Jon Pittman rails against the execution of the MVP idea, basically saying we have nailed the minimum product but… Read More Geek Reading April 3, 2015
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