Leading off our stories today is an interview with Microsoft CEO Nadella. It may not be breaking news, but it is an interesting view into the future of Microsoft. On AVC, Fred Wilson talks about founders getting “knocked down”. The basic idea is how do you handle it and what do you do next, which is applicable to almost anyone, not just founders.

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

Top Stories

• Exclusive: CEO Nadella talks Microsoft’s mobile ambitions, Windows 10 strategy, HoloLens and more | ZDNet

Startups, Career and Process

• Getting Knocked Down | AVC
• It’s Not About the Syntax – Why Language Doesn’t Matter | Atomic Spin

Design and Development

• Bugs and cracks | Edmund Kirwan
• The Cool Front-End Developer | Matt Zabriskie
• Debugging Lisp Part 2: Inspecting | Macrology
• Functional Programming in a Dysfunctional World | Under The Hood
• Under the hood: Box’s HHVM migration | Facebook Code
• Eddystone – A briefing note on the new BLE beacon format | Broken Links
• The Commandments of Good Code according to Zach | Advance the world
• Programmatic access to the call stack in C++ | Eli Bendersky’s website
• Understanding Callable and Spring DeferredResult | Java Code Geeks

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• 64 Network DO’s and DON’Ts for Game Engines. Part IIIa: Server-Side | High Scalability
• Speed Up Your Rails App by 66% – The Complete Guide to Rails Caching | Nate Berkopec
• Tuned: the tuning profile delivery mechanism for RHEL | Red Hat Developer Blog

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• A gentle introduction to statistical relational learning | Philippe Desjardins-Proulx
• Searching for Approximate Nearest Neighbours | Technology on Heels with Lyst Engineering

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• 3-D paper model of a shrinking sea | Flowing Data

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• The POODLE has friends | Vivaldi Blog
• Securing Go web applications | StableLib Blog

Fun and Other stuff

• Why Web Pages Suck | Stratechery by Ben Thompson

Link Collections

• Double Shot #1524 | A Fresh Cup
• Dew Drop – July 15, 2015 (#2054) | Morning Dew