Leading our Monday is a post on techiferous where they talk about not treating quality as a separate activity. Anyone involved in development should be aware that writing code and throwing it over the wall to QA is not a productive or efficient practice anymore. On KD Nuggets, there is an interesting post about rare… Read More Geek Reading January 11, 2016
Dan Luu starts our week with an excellent post about big company and startup work and compensation. There are a lot of trade-offs when trying to decide between the two and you really do need to look at the differences. Paul Hammant gives us his take on the “iron triangle” and how he thinks it… Read More Geek Reading December 21, 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
Mozilla starts our day with a big post on privacy and protecting its users. There is not much in terms of new information, but it is good to see Mozilla take a stand. On Coding VC they talk about the 100-hour rule, as a different option than the 10000-hour rule. The reasoning is that you… Read More Geek Reading December 3, 2015
VentureBeat starts our day reporting on the new $5 Raspberry Pi Zero. I did not think the Pi could get smaller or cheaper, but I was wrong. Smashing Magazine has a good post on lessons learned from a startup. More importantly, it shows what you need to pay attention to and not just the possible… Read More Geek Reading November 27, 2015
Microsoft starts our week with their open source release of the Distributed Machine Learning Toolkit for big data. They really need to work on naming things, Google has TensorFlow and Microsoft has DMLT, it just does not sound exciting. On Made of Bugs, they talk about what MongoDB got right. This is an interesting post because… Read More Geek Reading November 16, 2015
For a slow day, we have a great collection of articles. First, on Conversation Agent, Valeria Maltoni talks about grit as a predictor of success. I am a big believer in hard work and perseverance being key ingredients to success. At Atlassian, there is a very good post on maintaining focus with a growth mindset.… Read More Geek Reading November 13, 2015
Google leads the day again, this time with the announcement of offline maps and searching. Adam Bourg gives us an interesting look at scrum as a poor process and not truly agile. There are some good ideas and others that you may not agree with. Baremetrics has an excellent post on the potential perils of… Read More Geek Reading November 11, 2015
Google leads the day with the open sourcing of TensorFlow, their machine learning library. Following on the intelligence thread, WildML gives us an excellent explanation of Convolutional Neural Networks for NLP. Alex H Woods completes the idea with a nice post on Bayes Theorem and Naive Bayes. While applications of Bayes Theorem may not seem… Read More Geek Reading November 10, 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
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