Three great articles lead off our day. First, Seth Godin prompts us to raise our standards and to make sure we have a boss that wants the same. In business, complacency can mean death. Fred Wilson at AVC talks about “dumbing things down”. More appropriately, if you really want to win you need to make complex things much simpler. Google finally announces their “wireless plan” called Fi. It is an interesting offering and definitely something to keep an eye on.

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

Top Stories

• Demand higher standards | Seth Godin
• Dumbing Things Down | AVC
• Say hi to Fi: A new way to say hello | Official Google Blog

Career and Process

• A Dreyfus model for Agile adoption | Liz Keogh
• 7 Stages of Delivery – an Example Kanban | Javalobby
• Why “No Source Control” Is Not A Problem | Gil Zilberfeld
• Microsoft hiring engineers for R projects | Revolution Analytics
• The Valuation Boost Needed to Justify YC Will Surprise You | YesGraph Blog

Development

• Four Days of Go | Evan Miller
• UB Canaries | Embedded in Academia

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Performance Comparison of Multithreading in Java | Javalobby

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Randomized experimentation | Machine Learning (Theory)
• Hacking an epic NHL goal celebration with a hue light show and real-time machine learning | Francois Maillet
• Cohort analysis of Rust contributors | Seo Sanghyeon

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Why Elasticsearch is Suitable for Application Log Analytics | Javalobby
• Deep Dive Into MySQL’s Innochecksum Tool | Javalobby
• MongoDB + RocksDB at Parse | Parse

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• Privilege Escalation via Docker | Chris Foster

Link Collections

• Dew Drop – April 22, 2015 (#1998) | Morning Dew