Amazon leads our day with the announcement of their Amazon Payments partner program, reported by TechCrunch. On Signal v. Noise, we get an interesting post about being a boring programmer. This is a different perspective on the “rock-star” requirements we continuously see and there is definitely a case for finding “solid” talent. Michael Schmatz gives… Read More Geek Reading April 5, 2016 #1077
TechCrunch leads the day with a very cool article about biometric tattoos. Disappointingly, the first applications sound like they will be military in nature, but the idea could lead to some really interesting ideas. Yanir Seroussi has a very good post on the hardest parts of data science. Like many other posts I have shared,… Read More Geek Reading November 25, 2015
Today’s leading stories are startup and career focused. On AVC, Fred Wilson talks about startup growth and retention. There are a bunch of useful startup metrics but if your retention sucks, that is normally a very bad sign. Henry Ward tells the story of how eShares got their Series A. It is an interesting post, but… Read More Geek Reading July 29, 2015
Plenty of good articles today, but we are going to focus on security. On Threatpost, they discuss how a kids toy can be used to open fixed-code garage doors in 10 seconds. Granted, the toy is “enhanced” a bit, but it goes to show how easy it is to crack some things. Sakurity reports on… Read More Geek Reading June 5, 2015
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