It was a fairly light day yesterday, so there is not a ton of reading for today. First, on Machine Learning Theory they talk about how AlphaGo is not the solution to AI. People involved in the industry have really started to bang this drum considering people think AlphaGo is a much larger step than… Read More Geek Reading March 15, 2016 #1063
Oddly enough, Microsoft leads the day with their announcement of the availability of SQL Server on Linux. This is clearly a different Microsoft than we are used to. Instagram gives us a peak into their work on performance and usage. Ben McCormick talks about the sad state of the Backbone.js ecosystem. I am not sure… Read More Geek Reading March 9, 2016 #1059
Today we go a little old school. First, at the ACM we get a story from Andrew Tanenbaum about lessons learned from 30 years of MINIX. If you are an older computer science major, you probably remember taking an Operating Systems class and trying to change parts of MINIX. On <re/code>, we have reporting on… Read More Geek Reading March 2, 2016 #1054
Today we start with some job-focused posts. Johanna Rothman gives us a good post on requirements gathering and agile processes. If your organization really requires a lot of requirements analysis, maybe agile is not for your organization. On DaedTech, we get an interesting post about software metaphors. Admittedly, our industry overuses metaphors, but this might… Read More Geek Reading March 1, 2016 #1053
Leading our day is a post by Mark Suster on Bothsides of the Table. He talks about the resetting of the startup industry, which is interesting reading if you are trying to get your own startup funded. Gil Zilberfeld gives us an entertaining post about “estimate theater”. With a dialogue, he tries to get to… Read More Geek Reading February 9, 2016 #1038
It was a slower news day, so today we will focus on some trends. First, there has been a lot of discussion about the JavaScript ecosystem and the proliferation of libraries. At shruubi, they talk about JavaScript fatigue, or more importantly, the exhausting rate of change of the “best practices” for various libraries. On The… Read More Geek Reading February 2, 2016 #1033
TechCrunch leads the day reporting on a new type of metallic glue that can replace solder, MesoGlue. This is really interesting because it has the potential to change the electronic hobbyist industry and potentially more. High Scalability gives us a very nice introduction to scaling to 11M+ users on Amazon AWS. Not surprisingly, there is… Read More Geek Reading January 12, 2016
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
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
It is time for the August edition of the programming language job trends! The response to the language list changes was definitely positive, so things will be stable for this edition. In Part 1, we look at Java, C++, C#, Objective C, and Visual Basic. I did look at the trends for Swift, but the demand is not high enough… Read More Programming Language Job Trends Part 1 – August 2014
