Google Research leads the day with their post about Project Bloks. This is an interesting project but I am not sure how much impact this has on how people eventually learn programming. I am not a researcher in this area, so I am curious to see what the results are like. On the Android Developer… Read More Geek Reading June 28, 2016 #1137
Overall, the Apple WWDC was somewhat underwhelming. However, The Next Web reports on an interesting tidbit about Siri opening up to all third-party apps. Chef released Habitat a new open source project for automating applications. I have not dug into it yet, so I can’t comment too much, but it is good to see the… Read More Geek Reading June 16, 2016 #1129
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
Leading our day, High Scalability has a post on which cloud service to use based on your requirements, like throughput or latency. It is an interesting perspective on the services, especially because most posts focus on cost. Wired reports on researchers who found a zero-day exploit based on the hacking team’s leak. For people looking… Read More Geek Reading January 19, 2016
It was a fairly slow news day, but there is still plenty of good reading. On DZone Agile, we can read about the “Recruiter Manifesto”. At Code As Craft, they talk about leveling up your organization with system reviews. If you are not reviewing what you are doing, how are you learning how to improve?… Read More Geek Reading December 23, 2015
To start our day, Priceonomics has a story on the Guinness brewer who revolutionized statistics. There are a few interesting points here, the brewer is the source of “Student’s t” which is something I was always curious about. In our world of bigger data, statistics will become increasingly useful to more people. And you never… Read More Geek Reading December 15, 2015
Today we have a number of good articles in various groups, so make sure you take a look at everything. The Amplitude Blog talks about changing employee equity and generally how to make it better for the employees who are not founders. On Publishing Silicon they have an interesting read on the fall and rise… Read More Geek Reading December 7, 2015
Google starts our day by announcing a new design for Google+. The focus is on the more community related items and not a general social network. I think it makes sense based on what I have seen in the past few years. On Google Cloud Platform we now get custom machine types, which is a… Read More Geek Reading November 19, 2015
Krebs on Security starts our day with an interesting story that begins with a simple hack for a short Twitter username and evolves into the arrest of one of the people involved in the TalkTalk hack. In data visualizations, Flowing Data has a video about the evolution of US boundaries. It is based on the… Read More Geek Reading November 6, 2015
Seth Godin starts our day with a post on the power of fear. As usual, it is an excellent post that you should read. KD Nuggets gives us some information on the best advice from Quora on “How to learn machine learning”. It is a solid summary of the Quora discussion with a bunch of… Read More Geek Reading October 19, 2015
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