Today’s leading stories are startup and career focused. On AVC, Fred Wilson talks about startup growth and retention. There are a bunch of useful startup metrics but if your retention sucks, that is normally a very bad sign. Henry Ward tells the story of how eShares got their Series A. It is an interesting post, but the heart of the matter is you need to find investors that are interested in what you are doing. Financial technology is a much easier sell on the east coast than the west coast. Paul Hammant talks about those people you may have seen on your development teams, mavericks and loose cannons. Yes, you will be nodding and remembering that time that one guy did something similar.

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

Startups, Career and Process

• You Don’t Have To Ask Permission | Making the Complex Simple
• Growth vs Retention | AVC
• Mavericks versus loose cannons | Paul Hammant
• eShares Series A | Henry Ward

Design and Development

• Writing a simple Decompiler for .NET – Part 1 | Code and UX
• DSL processing in Scala | Denis Papathanasiou
• Chrome 45 Beta: New ES2015 features, service worker improvements, and media controls | Chromium Blog
• Java Numeric Formatting: DecimalFormat | Inspired by Actual Events
• Infographic: C/C++ facts we learned before going ahead with CLion | JetBrains CLion Blog
• The Foundations of a Good UI | codelitt
• Browserify vs Webpack | Cory House
• Miscomputation: Learning to live with errors | Tomas Petricek
• Moving Fast With High Code Quality | Engineering at Quora
• Pointer arithmetic and dynamic HTML generation FTW – at 2 AM | Ayende @ Rahien

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Algolia’s Fury Road to a Worldwide API Part 3 | High Scalability

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• The Brain vs Deep Learning Part I: Computational Complexity – Or Why the Singularity Is Nowhere Near | Tim Dettmers
• Introduction to Neural Machine Translation with GPUs (part 3) | Parallel Forall
• My 1st Kaggle ConvNet: Getting to 3rd Percentile in 3 months | Ilya Kavalerov

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Visual introduction to machine learning | Flowing Data
• Apache Drill : How to Create a New Function? | Java Code Geeks

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• Kubernetes Design Patterns | Java Code Geeks

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• One in every 600 websites has .git exposed | Jamie’s OC
• Researchers Hack Air-Gapped Computer With Simple Cell Phone | Wired

Link Collections

• Dew Drop – July 27, 2015 (#2061) | Morning Dew
• The Daily Six Pack: July 28, 2015 | Dirk Strauss
• Double Shot #1528 | A Fresh Cup
• Dew Drop – July 28, 2015 (#2062) | Morning Dew