Two good startup articles lead today. First, Paul Graham talks about why it is safe for founders to be nice. It was good to see this because so many people think the founders need to be much tougher. On TechCrunch, we have the math behind SaaS startup valuations. This is a good read for people… Read More Geek Reading August 31, 2015
Two completely unrelated stories lead our day. First, TechCrunch reports on the new keyboard that LG made for mobile devices. That doesn’t sound interesting until you hear that it rolls up into a stick. If it is as good as it looks, I will be getting one. The Washington Post talks about the trading anomalies… Read More Geek Reading August 28, 2015
We do not start today with great news. The NY Times reports on the sudden death of Joseph Traub, a professor I once had in college. He was basically a legend in the academic world, and it is a shame to see him go. In other news, Google Cloud Platform announced the general availability of… Read More Geek Reading August 27, 2015
Leading off today, we have MIT News reporting on crash-tolerant data storage. This could be an interesting development, but we have to see if it takes hold in industry. Google Cloud Platform announces the availability of user defined functions (UDFs) in Google BigQuery. My understanding is that this missing piece was a major complaint about… Read More Geek Reading August 26, 2015
There are a lot of interesting articles today, but not one particular area of focus. On Conversation Agent, Valeria Maltoni talks about why simple rules produce better decisions. Google Webmaster Central continues their #NoHacked series, giving us information on how to fix the injected gibberish URL hack. Google Cloud Platform announces the ability to backup… Read More Geek Reading August 25, 2015
This summer seems to be full of slow news weekends. Today we focus on startups. First, on Both Sides of the Table, Mark Suster talks about what he has learned about venture funding. At Andreessen Horowitz, they give us their 16 metrics that startups need to care about. Granted, some of the metrics may not… Read More Geek Reading August 24, 2015
Today we are focusing on the job and learning. First, on TechCrunch they talk about their lessons learned from their first startups. This is not a typical article from TechCrunch, so definitely take a look. Dan Luu follows with his lessons learned from reading post mortems. You can learn a lot from reading about other… Read More Geek Reading August 21, 2015
Google leads the day with two articles. First, they announce OnHub, their new router for “a new way to Wi-Fi”. It is fairly expensive for a router, so I would not be surprised to see this thing eventually get upgraded software to become part of the smart home, like Amazon’s Alexa. On the Google Research… Read More Geek Reading August 20, 2015
Our focus for today returns to security. First, on Google Webmaster Central they talk about identifying and diagnosing injected gibberish URL hacking. Anyone that runs their own or others’ websites should definitely read this. On thecomputerperson, they relate how Twitter is leaking your friends’ and family’s emails. Granted, you need to know what email address… Read More Geek Reading August 19, 2015
Leading today’s articles, Mozilla announces Webmaker. It is meant to target first-time smart phone users who are mostly mobile-only and give them an opportunity to create on the web. In security, Bits, Please! continues their series on an Android issue, this time getting through to a linux kernel privilege escalation vulnerability. LinkedIn talks about QARK, a… Read More Geek Reading August 18, 2015
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