Lots of news today! First, Under Armour buys MyFitnessPal. This is interesting because it is a nice set of software, but got purchased for $475 million. Is some consolidation coming? There were tons of articles about Net Neutrality, and I have included the post from Mozilla. Google announces the .how TLD, which is just cool because it is a good domain name. Seth Godin talks about giving people what they want, even if they don’t know what they really want. Finally, High Scalability gives us some insight into a presentation from Matt Cutts and lessons from the early days of Google.

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

Top Stories

• Give the people what they want | Seth Godin
• Matt Cutts: 10 Lessons Learned from the Early Days of Google | High Scalability
• Introducing .HOW: a new space for learning | Google and Your Business
• Victory for Net Neutrality – Let’s Take It Across The Finish Line | The Mozilla Blog
• Under Armour buys MyFitnessPal for $475M | GigaOm

Career and Process

• What Model Do Your Estimates Follow? | Johanna Rothman, Management Consultant
• Choosing the Right Programming Language for Your Startup | Joseph’s Blog

Development

• Cutting Down on Code Telepathy | DaedTech
• Your Apache Camel applications now includes out of the box documentation | Java Code Geeks
• The Art of AngularJS in 2015 | Raible Designs
• Configuring Front-End Applications | Javalobby
• Continuous Refactoring In Its Natural Habitat | Javalobby
• Why Learning to Code is So Damn Hard | Viking Code School

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Excerpts from the RavenDB Performance team report: Comparing Branch Tables | Ayende @ Rahien
• Finding the root cause of a web request latency | LTTng

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Google Research Entity Annotations of the KBA Stream Corpus (FAKBA1) | Jeff’s Search Engine Caffè
• Announcing the Interest Graph API | Prismatic
• A theory of changes for higher-order languages – incrementalizing lambda-calculi by static differentiation | LtU

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• When Do Americans Leave For Work? | Flowing Data
• A massive data dive proves that languages and genes evolve together | Quartz
• It’s Log! It’s Log! It’s Big, It’s Hyper, It’s Good! | Open Source Connections

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• Continuous Delivery: From Theory to Practice | Javalobby
• Path MTU discovery in practice | CloudFlare

Link Collections

• Dew Drop – February 4, 2015 (#1947) | Morning Dew
• Double Shot #1469 | A Fresh Cup
• Miscellaneous math resources | John D. Cook