Leading off today is a post from Valeria Maltoni at Conversation Agent. In her post she talks about trying to solve today’s problems, not trying to predict the future. Flowing Data found an absolutely ridiculous visualization of the solar system, where the base assumption is if the moon was one pixel large. It is very… Read More Geek Reading July 15, 2015
Today is all about the job and containers. First, Johanna Rothman talks about management, humanity and expectations. Basically, people are human and have emotions inside and outside of work. So, how do you manage that? On Both Sides of the Table, Mark Suster talks about exclusivity in deals for a startup. Basically, it totally makes… Read More Geek Reading June 24, 2015
Leading off today, Google Cloud Platform lowers their prices and announces the availability of preemptible VMs. These are short-term, volatile instances that are useful in large compute clusters because they can be taken down at any moment. It is an interesting idea and something to watch long term. Amazon AWS did not announce a similar… Read More Geek Reading May 19, 2015
Well, it is obviously data day because there are a lot of data-related articles today. Google Cloud Platform announced the availability of Google Cloud Dataflow. Docker and Microsoft released a Docker Client for Windows. For those of you who want some light reading, High Scalability talks about the Google Borg paper. As always, enjoy today’s… Read More Geek Reading April 17, 2015
Seth Godin leads us off today with a short post about the difference between hope and expectation. If people followed his advice, most programming projects would probably go smoother. On Conversation Agent, Valeria Maltoni talks about rethinking instead of minor improvements. There are some really good articles in the advanced section below as well. There… Read More Geek Reading April 14, 2015
Two excellent articles lead your reading today. First, Stack Overflow reports on their 2015 developer survey. It is an interesting look into the people that frequent the site which could be seen as a representative sample of our industry. On Road Less Travelled, we get a first hand account of one man’s experiences at Apple… Read More Geek Reading April 9, 2015
Mostly unpleasant news to lead our day. Zynga is now facing a lawsuit regarding potential fraud tied to its IPO. This could be interesting because it could make things a little harder for later IPOs. Slack reports that their user database was hacked. Thankfully, it does not sound like any confidential information was stolen. As… Read More Geek Reading March 30, 2015
On Friday, Google announced its plans for a new office space. Not surprisingly, it looks very cool. Early YCombinator alums are trying a new summer internship for college students which looks fairly interesting. Mozilla announced the release of the Webmaker app, “a free, independent web publishing tool.” Last and definitely not least, we mourn the… Read More Geek Reading March 2, 2015
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