Security articles lead our day, but the first one is good news. Google talks about building a safer web for everyone, including some GMail improvements. Krebs on Security follows with some news about skimmers hijacking ATM network cables. The moral of the story is, if you see an odd set of wiring, do not use… Read More Geek Reading February 10, 2016 #1039
Leading off our day is a cool article from Fast Co.Exist about a house that costs about $20,000. There is not a lot of detail about the house, but the idea is every cool. At Bothsides of the Table, Mark Suster talks about what will happen in VC in 2016. At Sudophilosophical, we get an… Read More Geek Reading February 5, 2016 #1036
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
Starting off our week we have The Modern Team talking about flat corporate structures and how they may not work in practice. I think people are not really ready for true flat structures just given our experience, and flat requires a huge change in our basic thinking. TechCrunch has an excellent post about the platform… Read More Geek Reading November 30, 2015
Seth Godin starts our day with another excellent post, this one talking about bravery. This is not the heroism type, but the bravery in our daily lives. Matthew Daniels talks about the new trend of journalist engineers, where the stories are almost all about data and visualization, and only accompanied by some text. On DZone… Read More Geek Reading October 28, 2015
Google and Amazon have been announcing a bundle of fun. Amazon announced QuickSight, Kinesis Firehose, Inspector and EC2 Dedicated Hosts. Rackspace also announced that they are an AWS Managed Services partner. Not to be outdone, Google announced Accelerated Mobile Pages, custom email, apps and more for Google Domains, cloud native MySQL sharding with Vitess and… Read More Geek Reading October 8, 2015
Today, the focus is on some development articles. First, Parse announces that they are open sourcing their SDKs. Next, Ember.js announces the release of Ember.js 2.0, a big milestone in that development. Smashing Magazine talks about the idea of “critical CSS”, the CSS that is needed to make the top part of the page render… Read More Geek Reading August 14, 2015
It was a fairly slow news day yesterday. So, today we lead off with a post on the Chromium blog, announced the integration of the physical web into Chrome for iOS. Algorithmia talks about mining Product Hunt and detecting voting rings. Collin Mulliner talks about how the Hacking Team used open source software that he… Read More Geek Reading July 23, 2015
There is a varied selection of articles today, but I am going to focus on the job and startups. On O’Reilly Radar, there is a very good article about flattening organizations. More importantly, they address the fact that there is always an implicit hierarchy and you need to reconcile that with your organization structure. Mark Suster at… Read More Geek Reading July 9, 2015
In part 1 of the programming language job trends, we reviewed Java, C++, C#, Objective C, and Visual Basic. In today’s installment, we review trends for PHP, Python, JavaScript, Ruby, and PERL. Watch for part 3 in the next few days, where we will look at some emerging languages and others gaining steam. First, let’s look at the trends from Indeed.com: Much like the languages in part… Read More Programming Language Job Trends Part 2 – August 2014
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