For today, we have a few more top stories. First, if you don’t already read XKCD’s What If, then you should hand in your geek card. It is basically XKCD, but long form posts of awesomeness. Louis Gray gives us some good ideas to follow in 2015. And finally, Seth Godin gives us some genius, as usual.

Enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.

Top Stories

• Fairy Demographics | XKCD What If
• 10 New Year’s Resolutions (for you) for the Year 2015 | Louis Gray
• Unprepared | Seth Godin

Career and Process

• My Resume Is Fiction | Chris Baglieri
• Gender bias in my hiring history | Arlo Being Bloody Stupid
• People, Places and Jobs | DedaSys Journal
• Do elite software developers exist? | Eric Sink
• Doing calculus with Roman numerals | Seth Godin

Development

• The “What Are Monads?” Fallacy | Two Wrongs
• The QA Department Mindset | Javalobby
• Functor and Monad in Swift | Javier Soto
• Top Three Challenges in Enterprise Mobile App Development in 2015 | Java Code Geeks
• Pandas Pivot Table Explained | Practical Business Python
• Continuous Integration Is a Hack! | Java Code Geeks
• Why you should not use AngularJs | Egor Koshelko
• DIY: Make Your Own Programming Language | Mattias Appelgren
• Keyway: A simple lock library | Trevor Strieber

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Linux Page Cache Hit Ratio | Brendan Gregg
• Asynchronous Timeouts with CompletableFuture | Javalobby
• Playing With Concurrency and Performance in Java and Node.js | Javalobby

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Side by side indexes in RavenDB | Ayende @ Rahien
• Causation vs Correlation: Visualization, Statistics, and Intuition | KD Nuggets
• Estimation in Sequential Analysis | auduno

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• Why aren’t we using SSH for everything? | Andrey Petrov

Other stuff

• Why I quit OS X | Curried lambda
• OS Technologies To Watch | GFX::Monk

Link Collections

• Dew Drop – January 2, 2015 (#1925) | Morning Dew
• Double Shot #1454 | A Fresh Cup