Leading off our news is the wonderful announcement from Tesla. The Model S now gets a “Ludicrous” mode. It is nice to see a company have fun with naming things instead of some “super-sport” mode or something drab. In the continuing fight against Flash vulnerabilities, Google Project Zero talks about various mitigations in the latest plugin for Chrome.
As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.
Top Stories
Startups, Career and Process
- The Secret to Fighting Buzzword Fatigue | DaedTech
- The One Question to Ask Developers Before You Make a Hire Decision | Thinking Collective
- The self-hating Web Developer | JoeQuery
Design and Development
- API Design: Small modifications over a network | Ayende @ Rahien
- FBP inspired data flow syntax: The missing piece for the success of functional programming? | Bionics IT
- Self Reference in Python | topics in functional programming
- Easily debugging meteor.js | Josh Owens
- React is an exciting future | Atlassian Developers
- Consuming java.util.concurrent.BlockingQueue as rx.Observable | Java Code Geeks
- Friday Q&A 2015-07-17: When to Use Swift Structs and Classes | Mike Ash
- Optimizers Anonymous – 1st step is admitting you (probably) don’t have a problem | NoPointerException
- Swift Protocols: A Strategy | Big O Note Taking
- A case for unstructured programming | 250bpm
Concurrency, Performance and Scalability
- High Availability for PostgreSQL, Batteries Not Included | Compose
- How to Achieve 20Gb and 30Gb Bandwidth through Network Bonding | 45 Drives
- Must be This Tall to Write Multi-Threaded Code | bholley
AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms
- Punctuated equilibrium in the large scale evolution of programming languages | Lambda the Ultimate
- Data Mining’s Forgotten Step-Children | Data Mining and Predictive Analytics
Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL
- Swear maps | Flowing Data
- Steampunk infographics | Flowing Data
Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps
- Goodbye, OpenStack | gigofham.com
Security, Encryption and Cryptography
- Significant Flash exploit mitigations are live in v18.0.0.209 | Google Project Zero
Link Collections
- Dew Drop – July 17, 2015 (#2056) | Morning Dew
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