Two good startup articles lead today. First, Paul Graham talks about why it is safe for founders to be nice. It was good to see this because so many people think the founders need to be much tougher. On TechCrunch, we have the math behind SaaS startup valuations. This is a good read for people wondering how to value their startup. For those of you interested in distributed systems, I give you this wonderful tweet:
As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.
Startups, Career and Process
- 8 Reasons to Turn Down That Startup Job | Dear Design Student
- Ethics for Freelance Programmers | Mike Cavaliere
- Sources of Power | Path-Sensitive
- What Ails the American Startup | Evan Soltas
- The Math Behind SaaS Startup Valuation | TechCrunch
- Why It’s Safe for Founders to Be Nice | Paul Graham
Design and Development
- Pimp My Code, Book 2: Replacing Loops in Swift | Call Me Fishmeal
- Angular 1 and Angular 2 integration: the path to seamless upgrade | Google Developers Blog
- An Optimising BF Compiler | Wilfred Hughes
- Webrtc in Safari? | WebRTC by Dr Alex
- Tests’ Influence on Design | testdouble
Concurrency, Performance and Scalability
- Distributed Hardness | ongoing by Tim Bray
- Concurrent max value | Ayende @ Rahien
- Erlang Dirty Scheduler Overhead | Jesper L. Andersen
Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL
- Systematic Fraud Detection Through Automated Data Analytics in MATLAB | KD Nuggets
- About Redis Sets memory efficiency | antirez
- Avoiding the Franken-beast: Polyglot Persistence Done Right | MarkLogic
- Efficient Tabular Storage | Matthew Rocklin
- Aquameta Layer 0: meta – Writable System Catalog for PostgreSQL | Aquameta
Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps
Security, Encryption and Cryptography
- Side-Channel Attacks Against Multicore Processors in Cross-VM Scenarios: Part II | Security Intelligence
Link Collections
- Dew Drop – August 28, 2015 (#2079) | Morning Dew
- The Daily Six Pack: August 31, 2015 | Dirk Strauss
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