There was no major news from yesterday, so our focus will just be on good content. Ilya Sher gives us an excellent article on threads, race conditions and deadlock. This is a good read for anyone that needs to write code using threads or locks. On FastML, they talk about adversarial validation, something that is… Read More Geek Reading May 25, 2016 #1113
To start our day we have a post from Machine Learning Mastery about the Python ecosystem for machine learning. Josh Juneau talks about the state of Java EE8 and the question of Oracle’s leadership of various JSRs. This has become a common topic lately, so it is definitely something we need to keep watch on.… Read More Geek Reading May 3, 2016 #1097
Leading our day, we have the announcement from the Google Cloud Platform about the general availability of custom machine types. This is very cool, and helps everyone using these platforms. I have always had a problem trying to choose the appropriate configuration for a new server. The Netflix Tech Blog started a series about how… Read More Geek Reading February 18, 2016 #1045
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
Google leads the day with the announcement from their cultural institute about 1000 museums at your fingertips. The coolest part is that you can zoom into the images so far that you can see the brushstrokes. ThreatPost reports on a serious Linux kernel vulnerability and its patch. High Scalability has an interesting post on scaling… Read More Geek Reading January 22, 2016
Today we focus on the job. Leading us off today is Valeria Maltoni at Conversation Agent where she talks about what we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. Liz Keogh follows with an excellent post on epiphany and apophany with regards to recognizing patterns. Steve Blank gives us an interesting look into startups, heroes and… Read More Geek Reading September 10, 2015
Leading today is another security issue. As reported by TechCrunch, a vulnerability in Lifelock could have exposed logins and passwords. Granted, this one sounds like it may not have been breached, but an identity security company had better be sure they follow the OWASP Top 10. There are a good bunch of articles related to… Read More Geek Reading July 2, 2015
Leading off today is another great article about startups, Dynamic Founder Agreements, on Javalobby. Who owns what, and what happens when they leave are issues that startups need to deal with at some point and this article has some really good advice. At .py in the sky, we see that Python 3 is finally gaining… Read More Geek Reading May 12, 2015
Some more unpleasantness leading off today as VentureBeat reports on the DDoS attack on GitHub continuing and evolving. Also from VentureBeat, Google has started morphing some of Google+ as photos and videos are now available in Google Drive. By itself, this is not a big thing, but we know that Google has not been thrilled… Read More Geek Reading March 31, 2015
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