Today, Brad Feld gives us some excellent information on the product/market fit question. On Blind Five Year Old, AJ Kohn shows us how our desire to believe can be affected by marketing. There are two job related posts to look at as well. A geek with a hat rants on how programmers tend to get… Read More Geek Reading January 21, 2015

Some really cool advanced topics today. Over at 0 FPS, we have a continuing tutorial on collision detection. Syntopia gives us path tracing 3D fractals, and we all know that fractals are cool. Lastly, pyimagesearch shows us how to find the distance of an object from a camera using python. As always, enjoy today’s items,… Read More Geek Reading January 20, 2015

There was not a lot of great stories over the weekend, but we still have a few. Paul Graham says you should be working on what doesn’t seem like work. This is really about doing the things that you love to do. Our friends at Stack Exchange continue to buck the open office trend with… Read More Geek Reading January 19, 2015

Today we have some cool news from MIT where they figured out how to watch immune cells communicate. Also from MIT, researchers used evolutionary algorithms to determine how to plan a wind farm with 1000 turbines, a highly complex problem with a cool solution. And finally, Flowing Data shows another fine example of people abusing… Read More Geek Reading January 16, 2015

We keep hearing about 3D printing advances in the medical industry, and today we have a story of printing a skull and tumor based on MRIs. Blind Five Year Old, aka AJ Kohn, drops knowledge on Google search autopredict. I know it looks like SEO, but AJ always goes very deep so that it is… Read More Geek Reading January 15, 2015

Lots of interesting things for today. In the top stories, Mozilla decided it was announcement day. First, they make it simpler to have video chats, then they added enhancements to “share more” on the web. Really interesting additions to Firefox. Not to be outdone, Google makes Google Translate awesome with WordLens. As always, enjoy today’s… Read More Geek Reading January 14, 2015

This installment starts with more genius from Seth Godin. Mozilla announces a science lab fellowship. And High Scalability shows us what scale really means when looking at Amazon AWS. As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites. Top Stories Failure imagined (24 variations) | Seth Godin Announcing the Mozilla… Read More Geek Reading January 13, 2015

Today we have an article about student’s favorite teacher deciding to leave teaching. It is a good read and an indictment of funding at public schools. WIRED shows some cool “technology” that captures water from the air, which could be good for remote areas where clean water is hard to find. As always, enjoy today’s… Read More Geek Reading January 12, 2015

Career stagnation is a threat for a lot of developers, and my favorite recruiter has some good advice at Job Tips For Geeks. If you like math and Alan Turing, there is an interesting post about some of his work when he was only 15. Lastly, make sure you check out the link collections at… Read More Geek Reading January 9, 2015

Today we have a very cool device from CES, the Kraftwerk. Johanna Rothman tells us not to be indispensable, and if you care about your job besides the coding you should subscribe to her blog. If you ever wondered how some basic decisions in your code affect revenue, look no further than the article at… Read More Geek Reading January 8, 2015