Leading off today, Seth Godin talks about grit and hard work, how you can improve those but not “luck” or being pretty. Harvard Magazine has an interesting article about the company we keep and the things we share. They also compare this idea with what companies share. Very interesting article that I would recommend everyone read. Lastly, DeSmart talks about measuring happiness and building a better team. It is a simple method of using 🙂 😐 and 😦 to gauge how people are feeling, and digging into whether the team can do something to fix it.

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

Startups, Career and Process

• Grit and hard work | Seth Godin
• The Company We Keep | Harvard Magazine
• How Measuring Happiness Helped Us Build A Better Team | DeSmart
• The Definitive Guide for the Perfect Daily Standup [with 9 actionable tips] | StandupTime
• Stop Looking For A Cofounder | Don’t Scale
• Digital Discussions | The Programmer’s Paradox

Design and Development

• Face Detection in Google Play services | Android Developers Blog
• Getting a Card’s Info From Trello | DaedTech
• Why you should always use connection pooling with Oracle XE | Vlad Mihalcea
• Production postmortem: The case of the man in the middle | Ayende @ Rahien
• Blinking Commits | ugh blog dot jpg etc
• Java Everywhere: Write Once Run Anywhere with DukeScript | Java Code Geeks
• Pros and Cons of using immutability with React.js | React Kung Fu
• Barcode Detection in Google Play services | Android Developers Blog
• Develop DSLs for Eclipse and IntelliJ using Xtext | Java Code Geeks
• Out-of-Core Dataframes in Python: Dask and OpenStreetMap | Pythonic Perambulations
• Wiring YAML to a file or network with Chronicle Wire. | Vanilla Java
• Metaprogramming in Ruby: Part 1 | Aaron Krauss

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• From protein design to self-driving cars: UW team wins AI prize for optimization approach | phys.org
• Image Recognition using Machine Learning Techniques | Praful’s Rants

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• OpenBMC for server: Porting and supporting new features for “Yosemite” | Facebook Code
• Getting started with Docker from a developer point of view: build an environment you can trust | Java Code Geeks

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• Blackbox Reversing an Electric Skateboard Wireless Protocol | Mike Ryan
• Kaspersky ex-employees say Russian antivirus firm faked malware to harm rivals | VentureBeat
• VW Has Spent Two Years Trying to Hide a Big Security Flaw | Bloomberg

Fun and Other stuff

• Astronomers photograph a baby Jupiter in another solar system | Reuters
• Chinese Cave Graffiti Contains 500 Years of Climate Data | Motherboard

Link Collections

• The Daily Six Pack: August 14, 2015 | Dirk Strauss
• Double Shot #1539 | A Fresh Cup