This is a special Sunday edition of Geek Reading for one simple reason. I am taking a break from posting Geek Reading for a while. Life and work are always very busy and I am hoping to get back to writing again. Maybe in the near future I will post an original article or opinion,… Read More Geek Reading July 17, 2016 #1150
We start our day with a report on re/code about Microsoft giving up on consumer smartphones. Part of this is the impending layoffs of about 2000 jobs. Stratechery talks about the curse of culture and how it affects your business. Culture is a frequent topic here because it affects everything at your job, how coworkers… Read More Geek Reading May 26, 2016 #1114
Bryan Edds starts our day with his post about the stress and depression that is rampant in the software industry. This is a topic that is important to me because I have seen the effects in both myself and others over my 20+ year career. If you are one of those people having difficulties, you… Read More Geek Reading February 23, 2016 #1048
Wired leads the day with their story on who they think the creator of Bitcoin is. We will see if this path is true. The rest of our news is dominated by the CMS world. WordPress released v4.4, codenamed “Clifford”. WordPress also released an app for Windows. A group of Microsoft developers have saved Windows… Read More Geek Reading December 10, 2015
TechCrunch leads the day with a very cool article about biometric tattoos. Disappointingly, the first applications sound like they will be military in nature, but the idea could lead to some really interesting ideas. Yanir Seroussi has a very good post on the hardest parts of data science. Like many other posts I have shared,… Read More Geek Reading November 25, 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
By now you have heard that Google is now a subsidiary of Alphabet. If you have not heard this yet, you clearly have been disconnected from all forms of media. This news has been covered, re-covered, analyzed and re-analyzed several times over. In other news, Google research talks about how they have improved transcription in… Read More Geek Reading August 12, 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
Venture Beat leads off today reporting on the announcement that Charter Communications will acquire Time Warner Cable. There is a much greater likelihood that this deal works compared to the Comcast deal. FastML talks about real-time interactive movie recommendations. On Flowing Data, they point us to a fascinating interactive graph where you can look at… Read More Geek Reading May 26, 2015
Lots of good articles over the weekend. First, Microsoft casually mentions that an open source Windows is “definitely possible”, and it was not an April Fool’s joke. This is definitely a different Microsoft. Coding Horror talks about how all bugs are shallow, if you throw enough money at it. It is a very good read,… Read More Geek Reading April 6, 2015
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