By now you may have heard that scientists have found evidence of water on Mars. We have the Reuters report for this story. HashiCorp announced the release of two new open source tools, Nomad and Otto. High Scalability gives us an interesting post about how Facebook tells your friends that you are safe in a… Read More Geek Reading September 30, 2015
Reuters leads our day with an interesting story about a Tanzanian engineer who invented a low-cost water filter. For many countries, this could be a huge development. On Both Sides of the Table, Mark Suster gives us two interesting posts. First, he talks about high conviction when dealing with VC decisions, not worrying about consensus… Read More Geek Reading September 29, 2015
Not a lot of news over the weekend, but there were a lot of good reads. Krebs on Security talks about a new card breach at Hilton Hotel properties. This one is still in the analysis phase, so we will probably hear more about this later. Mozilla gives us their version of a healthy and… Read More Geek Reading September 28, 2015
Valeria Maltoni starts our day with her latest post on Conversation Agent. She talks about APIs as personal systems, and it is an interesting look at our use of applications and our data. Andreessen Horowitz gives us 16 more startup metrics. Just like their first 16 metrics, this is another must read. Johanna Rothman adds… Read More Geek Reading September 25, 2015
Facebook leads the day with their announcement of instant articles and how developers can integrate their CMS with it. On Conversation Agent, Valeria Maltoni talks about the paralysis of choice. if you read it with your customers and consumers in mind, you may find that you make things too difficult for them. Google Project Zero… Read More Geek Reading September 24, 2015
Leading the day, we have TechCrunch reporting on layoffs at Groupon. They are dropping 1100 employees and closing operations in 7 countries. This could be a signal that the deal companies could be in trouble. Johanna Rothman continues her series on resource efficiency and flow efficiency. Sam Altman gives us an excellent post on unit… Read More Geek Reading September 23, 2015
It was fairly quiet yesterday, so nothing big to report. So, leading today we have an interesting post at On Software Efficiency which talks about measuring programmer competency. James K Nelson has an excellent introduction to using React.js for simple forms. Nish Tahir shows us how to use cosine similarity for fuzzy string matching. As… Read More Geek Reading September 22, 2015
Welcome back from the weekend! Leading today we have First Round Review giving us some simple rules to launch your product. Johanna Rothman has part 3 of a series of posts about resource efficiency vs flow efficiency. As always, Johanna’s posts are always worth reading. By now you have probably already heard about the 16… Read More Geek Reading September 21, 2015
Krebs on Security leads the day again with the continuing saga about the skimmers in Mexico. This is really a fascinating story and shows the potential that the skimmer businesses have. On Conversation Agent, Valeria Maltoni talks about continuous improvement through experiments. It is an interesting way to think about improvement given our productivity focused… Read More Geek Reading September 18, 2015
Today starts with some news reported by recode, HP will cut up to 30,000 jobs after the company splits. This is not entirely surprising, but it still sucks for a lot of people. Johanna Rothman gives us something interesting to read when she talks about resource efficiency and flow efficiency. On Diary of a ScrumMaster,… Read More Geek Reading September 17, 2015
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