Today we are going to focus on the career. At The Codist, we are told a story about regret in a career. This is an interesting perspective of someone that has been a programmer for a very long time, had opportunities to really get into technical leadership, but never took a full leap into it.… Read More Geek Reading April 7, 2016 #1079
A slice of Kimchi leads our day with some information about vulnerabilities in Quanta LTE routers. Yes, it is another day and another security problem. At Rewriting the Code, we get a great post about being a “dumb girl” in computer science. It is more about a story of asking questions and not being afraid… Read More Geek Reading April 6, 2016 #1078
Microsoft leads our news today. TechCrunch reports on Microsoft bringing the bash shell to Windows 10. When I first heard this, I was beyond excited. A good unix shell on Windows has been needed for decades. Kubernetes has an ongoing series of posts about their new release, with today’s installment being about new multi-zone clusters. I… Read More Geek Reading March 31, 2016 #1074
Citusdata starts our day with their announcement about “unforking” from PostgreSQL. They have been doing some very interesting work, so getting their technology back into the fold will be a good thing in the long term. On the Google Developers Blog, they talk about the Google API Console. This is just one step closer to… Read More Geek Reading March 29, 2016 #1072
It was a fairly light weekend, but there is still plenty of good reading. At Twitter, they talk about observability, where they give us a technical overview of what they are doing. On Keeping It Classless, we get an interesting post about test-driven network automation. It is odd to see test automation in the world of… Read More Geek Reading March 21, 2016 #1067
Leading the day is an interesting look at the problems at GitHub as reported bu Business Insider. Much like any company trying to grow their revenue from a small company, they start to have an identity crisis and some of the early employees depart. Overall, it is not surprising but I am curious to see… Read More Geek Reading February 8, 2016 #1037
Leading the day is a post on ReadThink by the HubSpot CEO. It is an excellent look at how to manage things when dealing with the switch between pure startup and scaling a business. Tom Blomfield gives us a slightly humorous look at when to join a startup. Its’ target may be humor but there… Read More Geek Reading January 15, 2016
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
We have a mix of stories today. In development, we have Mark Reinhold talking about the state of the module system, aka Project Jigsaw which will be in Java 9. Next, Daniel Lemire gives us an interesting take on who is typically responsible for progress, hackers or academics. On Mindful Chaos, they talk about how… Read More Geek Reading September 14, 2015
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