There was some really interesting news yesterday. Cablevision announces a wifi-only phone service, which might be really useful for lower income families or people looking to replace their home phone. Google gets some help with its Wallet purchasing by partnering with WePay. With Apple Pay growing, this could be the type of thing that finally launches mobile payments. Supposedly, IBM will be laying off over 100K people. Obviously, IBM denies it but other sources are saying it may be closer to 10K or even less.

As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.

Top Stories

• Cablevision launches Wi-Fi-only mobile phone service | GigaOm
• Google taps WePay to put Wallet support in 200K more online stores | VentureBeat
• IBM is about to get hit with a massive reorg and layoffs (over 100K people?!?) | ITworld

Career and Process

• Which UX Skills should Product Owners and Product Managers have? | Java Code Geeks

Development

• Hibernate locking patterns – How does Optimistic Lock Mode work | Vlad Mihalcea
• Challenging Myself With Coplien’s Why Most Unit Testing is Waste | The Holy Java
• Popularity-driven development | ferrante
• Game Development in Go | as simple as possible, but no simpler
• Using oauth for a simple command line script to access Google’s data | Martin Fowler
• Monads in Dynamically-Typed Languages | eighty-twenty news

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Fork/Join Framework vs. Parallel Streams vs. ExecutorService: The Ultimate Fork/Join Benchmark | Java Code Geeks
• Paper: Immutability Changes Everything by Pat Helland | High Scalability

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• On Eigenfaces: Creating ghost-like images from a set of faces. | Mike Dusenberry

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• If you got bugs, you’ll get pwned | Building Real Software

Other stuff

• What Phase Of The Project – Dilbert Comic Strip on 2015-01-26 | Dilbert by Scott Adams
• We Will Never Need Another Financing | Feld Thoughts

Link Collections

• Dew Drop – January 26, 2015 (#1940) | Morning Dew
• Double Shot #1463 | A Fresh Cup