If you only read this tech blog, then you might not have heard about the recent issues with Ethereum and the DAO. The Ethereum Blog posted about a DAO vulnerability. It ends up that the vulnerability was used to start draining ether, which led to a ton of posts about this. At Hacking, Distributed, they… Read More Geek Reading June 21, 2016 #1132
Some big news leads the day. First, LinkedIn announced they are being acquired by Microsoft. According to reports, the purchase price is over $26 Billion in all cash. I have no idea why Microsoft wants this deal, so we will have to wait and see what happens. Google announced Tango, with the first enable phone,… Read More Geek Reading June 14, 2016 #1127
Another day and another security issue. Malwarebytes talks about their anti-malware vulnerability disclosure. This is good from the perspective of openness, but it is always concerning when they talk about it. Johanna Rothman turns burndown charts upside down, and shows us burnup charts. This is an interesting idea on how to report on progress in agile… Read More Geek Reading February 3, 2016 #1034
Today’s top story is a sad one. Marvin Minsky, one of the fathers and innovators of AI, has passed away. The post by Philip Greenspun is one of the best that I could find. Given that it is yet another day, we have yet another security issue. The Next Web reports on another Uber issue… Read More Geek Reading January 27, 2016
There are four stories that top our news for today. First, VentureBeat reports on Toshiba’s plans to fire 7000 employees. That is a big number and hopefully those people can find work quickly. VentureBeat also gives us an excellent post from Steve Blank on how 1/3 of your team needs to be crazy. Crazy isn’t… Read More Geek Reading December 22, 2015
Today we have a number of good articles in various groups, so make sure you take a look at everything. The Amplitude Blog talks about changing employee equity and generally how to make it better for the employees who are not founders. On Publishing Silicon they have an interesting read on the fall and rise… Read More Geek Reading December 7, 2015
Leading off today is another security issue, iDigitalTimes reports on malware found pre-installed on Xiaomi, Huawei and Lenovo phones. In the development section, we have several good articles. First, at the Developsense Blog we have a series of posts regarding “Oracles” in testing, with today’s installment being part 4. NCZOnline talks about the size of… Read More Geek Reading September 9, 2015
Today, our lead articles talk about team and company culture. First, Gil Zilberfeld talks about the copy-paste strategy. The idea is that what works for Spotify may not work for you because you have a different team and a different culture. On paperplanes, they talk about why hiring based on culture-fit may be a bad… Read More Geek Reading June 12, 2015
There were a lot of development articles over the weekend. On Building Real Software, they talk about application security and the gaps between builders and defenders. Edmund Kirwan shows us a structural package analysis of Apache Lucene over the years. As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites. Startups,… Read More Geek Reading May 25, 2015
We start the week with recode reporting on the news that Grooveshark is shutting down. This should not be terribly surprising, but it is disappointing. VentureBeat reports on the Tesla announcement about Tesla Energy and the new batteries for home and business. I can’t wait to see how this changes the industry. Lastly, Mozilla has… Read More Geek Reading May 4, 2015
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