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
Yesterday, Visa announced a more aggressive rollout of its Checkout product. Given that most people do not know what it is, more aggressive sounds like a good idea. Data news was popular as well. Netflix released RAD, its outlier detection tooling. Flowing Data shares a great graphic aboud the impact of vaccines throughout history. Lastly,… Read More Geek Reading February 20, 2015
We have lots to share today! First, Expedia buys Orbitz for $1.6 billion. This is news more because it is so rare to see purchases of that magnitude. There are a few good articles on some advanced concepts, the central limit theorem, bayes theorem and paxos, a consensus algorithm. These concepts drive a lot of… Read More Geek Reading February 13, 2015
Not a large number of articles today, but always quality. First, Brad Feld leads off with an interesting idea of a 40% rule for startups, talking about the mix of growth and profit. MongoDB announced MongoDB 3.0, which is important because there are some really good features in this release. It sounds like they are… Read More Geek Reading February 4, 2015
Given that Christmas is a gift giving occasion, and that AppleTV and GoogleTV have been hot topics prior to this holiday season, it only makes sense that these video offerings appear in the news again. There are lots of questions regarding these types of technologies, and I will get to some of that later. First,… Read More AppleTV, GoogleTV or Just NoCable
