Leading our day are the improvements in Mozilla’s Firefox. Take a look at the improvements that they talk about to see if you want to give it another try. On Feld Thoughts, we get an excellent post on rebudgeting for the second half of the year. The main point is not to reforecast, but to… Read More Geek Reading June 9, 2016 #1124
Google Research starts us off with the announcement of a distributed version of TensorFlow. Neo4j follows with two interesting posts. First, they analyze the Panama papers. This gives us some fascinating visualizations of the groups involved. Second they use a specialized ETL for their graph DB to analyze citizen data. This is more interesting because they… Read More Geek Reading April 15, 2016 #1085
Oddly enough, Microsoft leads the day with their announcement of the availability of SQL Server on Linux. This is clearly a different Microsoft than we are used to. Instagram gives us a peak into their work on performance and usage. Ben McCormick talks about the sad state of the Backbone.js ecosystem. I am not sure… Read More Geek Reading March 9, 2016 #1059
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
It was fairly quiet yesterday, so nothing big to report. So, leading today we have an interesting post at On Software Efficiency which talks about measuring programmer competency. James K Nelson has an excellent introduction to using React.js for simple forms. Nish Tahir shows us how to use cosine similarity for fuzzy string matching. As… Read More Geek Reading September 22, 2015
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