I am not sure how I forgot to post it yesterday, but our lead story comes from The Next Web. SpaceX finally lands its rocket on a drone ship! Geeks around the world were going nuts and the various videos of the landing were shared all over. Wordfence continues their analysis of the Panama Papers… Read More Geek Reading April 12, 2016 #1082
We start our week with a post from All Things Distributed about 10 lessons from 10 years of Amazon web services. It is an interesting look at AWS from someone who has been there from the beginning. On Java Code Geeks, they give us an introduction to use Apache Spark Streaming with Scala. Another good… Read More Geek Reading March 14, 2016 #1062
There was not a lot of new yesterday, but there is always some interesting reading. On Conversation Agent, we get a very good post on the difference between power and status. Interestingly, they both can wield influence, which is what most people typically want. At DaedTech, they talk about escaping the legacy skill quicksand. As… Read More Geek Reading February 25, 2016 #1050
Leading the day is an interesting look at the problems at GitHub as reported bu Business Insider. Much like any company trying to grow their revenue from a small company, they start to have an identity crisis and some of the early employees depart. Overall, it is not surprising but I am curious to see… Read More Geek Reading February 8, 2016 #1037
Macworld starts our day with a bit of nostalgia, an ode to Kai’s Power Goo. I know this isn’t news but it shows you how much was possible 20 years ago and user interfaces still tend to suck now. First Round Review gives us an excellent post on scaling yourself as a technology leader. Anyone… Read More Geek Reading November 20, 2015
Google leads the day with their smart replies for Inbox by Gmail. There is also a post on Google Research regarding these sorts of replies. Overall, a very cool idea, but we will see how it works in practice. For those of you in the startup world, Jared Cohen has an interesting post on the… Read More Geek Reading November 4, 2015
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