Leading off our stories today is an interview with Microsoft CEO Nadella. It may not be breaking news, but it is an interesting view into the future of Microsoft. On AVC, Fred Wilson talks about founders getting “knocked down”. The basic idea is how do you handle it and what do you do next, which… Read More Geek Reading July 16, 2015
Leading off today is a post from Valeria Maltoni at Conversation Agent. In her post she talks about trying to solve today’s problems, not trying to predict the future. Flowing Data found an absolutely ridiculous visualization of the solar system, where the base assumption is if the moon was one pixel large. It is very… Read More Geek Reading July 15, 2015
Two very cool stories top our day. First, Reuters reports on the New Horizons getting ever closer to Pluto. There are some really cool pictures coming back and it is really interesting to watch. In other “news”, NPR talks about the revival of Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed. This was one of my favorite strips… Read More Geek Reading July 14, 2015
We have another slow weekend of news today. First, the Army National Guard announced that it had a data breach. This does not sound as bad as the last government breach, but it is still bad. MIT News reports on a program that fixes old code faster than “expert engineers”. The ideas in the project… Read More Geek Reading July 13, 2015
Today is devoted solely to all things Amazon as they announced a pile of fun. AWS CodeCommit, Amazon’s GitHub alternative, is now publicly available. AWS CodePipeline is Amazon’s version of continuous delivery. AWS API Gateway is hard to explain, but it is a mix of a development platform and infrastructure needed to run an API.… Read More Geek Reading July 10, 2015
There is a varied selection of articles today, but I am going to focus on the job and startups. On O’Reilly Radar, there is a very good article about flattening organizations. More importantly, they address the fact that there is always an implicit hierarchy and you need to reconcile that with your organization structure. Mark Suster at… Read More Geek Reading July 9, 2015
Leading today is a post by Valeria Maltoni on Conversation Agent. She really talks about asking the right questions, continuing to ask why. I have been known to annoy my coworkers with lots of questions about why code was written in a particular manner to solve a problem. For me it is more about understanding… Read More Geek Reading July 8, 2015
Today is another slow day as we come out of the holiday weekend. Two security related stories lead the day. As reported by TechCrunch, the security group Hacking Team was hacked. This is not entirely surprising given their high profile in the security space, and no company is perfect. This leads us into a nice… Read More Geek Reading July 7, 2015
For a weekend, it was a fairly slow news cycle. Depression in startups and founders is a fairly common topic. One of the leaders of the discussion is Brad Feld. He writes about how holidays can be hard. His article was built upon the article from Business Insider about the dark side to startups. In… Read More Geek Reading July 6, 2015
Two machine learning topics lead today. First, Google Research announced the release of DeepDream an example of visualizing neural networks. Also, Airbnb talks about designing machine learning models. It is interesting to hear the perspective of a more recent startup that does not have a large research group. In data visualization, Flowing Data shows us… Read More Geek Reading July 3, 2015
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