Leading today we have some job and startup related stories. First, Mark Suster talks about survivors on Both Sides of the Table. Mark always gives us an interesting look into the mind of a VC. On Customer Experience Matters, they share some research showing that employees need to feel like they are contributing. For some people, this might sound like basic logic, but in the larger industry it is definitely not the norm. Down in the security section, there is an interesting post from Jonathan Porta. He talks about the Windows 10 defaults for privacy, and how wrong they are. Definitely review the privacy settings when you install.

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

Startups, Career and Process

• Take-home interviews | Triplebyte
• Survivors | Both Sides of the Table
• Employees Need to Feel Like They’re Contributing | Customer Experience Matters

Design and Development

• Targeting Broad Queries in Search | Code as Craft
• Vector Meshes | UpCoder coding blog
• Doing Terrible Things To Your Code | Coding Horror
• Let’s learn Erlang and fix a bug on a CouchDB Cluster #1 | Robert Kowalski
• Use cases for CHANGE-CLASS in Common Lisp | Juho Snellman
• Testing without mocking in Scala | Engineering at Monsanto

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Representable Functors | Bartosz Milewski
• Face swapping with Python, dlib and OpenCV | Matt’s ramblings
• Making Postgres Bloom | PipelineDB

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Transactions in Redis | A Dash of Technology
• Neo4j: Cypher – Removing consecutive duplicates | Mark Needham
• Gender prediction through trivia performance | Flowing Data
• Diving into Spark Streaming’s Execution Model | databricks

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• I noticed some disturbing privacy defaults in Windows 10 | Jonathan Porta

Link Collections

• The Daily Six Pack: July 30, 2015 | Dirk Strauss
• Dew Drop – July 30, 2015 (#2064) | Morning Dew
• Double Shot #1530 | A Fresh Cup
• The Daily Six Pack: 31 July, 2015 | Dirk Strauss