Some interesting acquisition news starts our week, with both items reported by VentureBeat. First, Microsoft acquires and shutters messaging startup Wand Labs. Next, Samsung buys Joyent, a cloud infrastructure company. Joyent will continue to operate as a separate company, so no major concerns there. On Digital Trends, they talk about a man who built a… Read More Geek Reading June 20, 2016 #1131
Google leads our day with their release of Spaces. Many news sites are calling it a messaging platform, but it feels more like a collaboration platform almost like a wiki. Overall, it seems like an odd thing for Google to be working on unless they are really focused on the business use cases. Michael Bromley… Read More Geek Reading May 18, 2016 #1108
Today we have some very good AI/ML posts. First, Pete Warden tells us how to break into machine learning. It is some very practical advice on how to get started. Machine Learning Mastery, my new favorite ML blog, talks about boosting and AdaBoost. David Lettier shows us how to develop K-Means from scratch. Lastly, on… Read More Geek Reading April 26, 2016 #1092
My apologies to those of you that expect a new post every weekday. I took a day off from work and the internet 🙂 While I am sure I missed a bit of news over the weekend, I still have a good list of articles for you today. First, Docker announced the beta of clients… Read More Geek Reading March 28, 2016 #1071
The big story of the day is the new Slack Platform launch. With this launch and the associated development fund, Slack is trying to position itself as a business platform to build solutions on top of. It will be interesting to watch how this really evolves. Mozilla now gives us more control over our data… Read More Geek Reading December 17, 2015
Tomasz Tunguz starts our week with a post about organizational design in startups. Most companies will evolve over time, so there is some good information in this post. At Groove, they talk about how your best employees will quit and what you can do about it. Typically, your very good employees are constantly bombarded with… Read More Geek Reading December 14, 2015
Starting off our week we have The Modern Team talking about flat corporate structures and how they may not work in practice. I think people are not really ready for true flat structures just given our experience, and flat requires a huge change in our basic thinking. TechCrunch has an excellent post about the platform… Read More Geek Reading November 30, 2015
Today we start with two excellent career oriented posts. First, at PagerDuty they talk about why VPs (or any managers) should care about engineer burnout. This is a very real issue that people try to sweep under the rug frequently. On the Agile zone at DZone, there is a post about why the author will… Read More Geek Reading November 5, 2015
We have another slow weekend of news today. First, the Army National Guard announced that it had a data breach. This does not sound as bad as the last government breach, but it is still bad. MIT News reports on a program that fixes old code faster than “expert engineers”. The ideas in the project… Read More Geek Reading July 13, 2015
Leading today is a post by Valeria Maltoni on Conversation Agent. She really talks about asking the right questions, continuing to ask why. I have been known to annoy my coworkers with lots of questions about why code was written in a particular manner to solve a problem. For me it is more about understanding… Read More Geek Reading July 8, 2015
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