For a weekend, it was a fairly slow news cycle. Depression in startups and founders is a fairly common topic. One of the leaders of the discussion is Brad Feld. He writes about how holidays can be hard. His article was built upon the article from Business Insider about the dark side to startups. In general, software engineering is a fairly introverted activity with high stress. This is a recipe for lots of depression stories, not because introverts get depressed more, but because they might not show their depression and get the support that is needed.
As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.
Startups, Career and Process
- Understanding Software Risks Created by Poor Application Development and Release Practices | Javalobby
- We’re Not Done Yet | Gil Zilberfeld
- Holidays Can Be Hard | Feld Thoughts
- There’s a dark side to startups, and it haunts 30% of the world’s most brilliant people | Business Insider
- On Scripting | Developsense Blog
Design and Development
- Workflows for Git | Javalobby
- Mock | Javalobby
- The UUID Discussion | Javalobby
- Moving to HTML5 Premium Media | Microsoft Edge Dev Blog
- More compact Mockito with Java 8, lambda expressions and Mockito-Java8 add-ons | Java Code Geeks
- Safari isn’t the problem, but the lack of browser choice in iOS is. | Kenneth Auchenberg
- Software bloat makes me sad | Remarkably Restrained
- Friday Q&A 2015-07-03: Address Sanitizer | Mike Ash
- Write code every day | Brett Langdon
- Writing a download server. Part IV: Implement HEAD operation (efficiently) | Java Code Geeks
- What kind of Web Components do we need? | Hidde de Vries
- Object Theft Etiquette in C++: methods with a side of && | Nir’s Blog
Concurrency, Performance and Scalability
AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms
- How the World Looks to Your Phone | Foursquare Engineering Blog
- When the last digits of powers don’t change | John D. Cook
Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL
- Too Big Data: Coping with Overplotting | Javalobby
- R: Wimbledon – How do the seeds get on? | Mark Needham
Link Collections
- Double Shot #1522 | A Fresh Cup
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