Today we are focusing on the job and learning. First, on TechCrunch they talk about their lessons learned from their first startups. This is not a typical article from TechCrunch, so definitely take a look. Dan Luu follows with his lessons learned from reading post mortems. You can learn a lot from reading about other peoples’ mistakes, you just have to pay attention. As is typical, Seth Godin drops some genius as he talks about agreeing on the problem. You can’t figure out a solution until people agree about what the problem is. He also gives us a great quote, “Denying the problem doesn’t increase the chances it will go away”.
As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.
Startups, Career and Process
- Lessons Learned From My First Startups | TechCrunch
- Agreeing on the problem | Seth Godin
- Lessons learned from reading post mortems | Dan Luu
- A Software Engineer As a High-Level Government Adviser | Java Code Geeks
Design and Development
- From Technical Debt to Software Development Analytics | Oracle Community
- CHICKEN internals: data representation | More magic
- Repeatable random tests | Ayende @ Rahien
- How to Prevent Catastrophic Failures in Complex Distributed Systems | Building Real Software
- Microsoft beats Google to the punch: Bing for Android update does what Now on Tap will do | VentureBeat
- Interactive watch faces with the latest Android Wear update | Android Developers Blog
- What’s in a message? Getting attachments right with the Google beacon platform | Google Developers Blog
- Flag Parameters and Overloading in Python, Java, and Kotlin | Java Code Geeks
- rb: A Redis parallelization toolkit for Python | Sentry
- Debugging Lisp Part 5: Miscellaneous | Macrology
- Impulse: “Adventures On The Road to Valhalla” | Java Code Geeks
- Writing code that writes code – with Hack Codegen | Facebook Code
AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms
- Statistical Anomaly Detection | eBay Tech Blog
- Machine Learning – Neural Networks Tutorial | Existor
- Dataflow Model: Balancing Correctness, Latency, & Cost in Massive, Out-of-Order Data Processing | the morning paper
- The Stack Overflow Tag Engine – Part 2 | Matt Warren
Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL
- New – Store and Process Graph Data using the DynamoDB Storage Backend for Titan | AWS Official Blog
Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps
- Creating a Cross-platform Docker Development Environment | Java Code Geeks
- Fenzo: OSS Scheduler for Apache Mesos Frameworks | The Netflix Tech Blog
Link Collections
- Dew Drop – August 20, 2015 (#2073) | Morning Dew
- The Daily Six Pack: August 21, 2015 | Dirk Strauss
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