There are a lot of interesting articles today, but not one particular area of focus. On Conversation Agent, Valeria Maltoni talks about why simple rules produce better decisions. Google Webmaster Central continues their #NoHacked series, giving us information on how to fix the injected gibberish URL hack. Google Cloud Platform announces the ability to backup physical media to their cloud system.

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

Startups, Career and Process

• Winback Campaigns vs New Customer Acquisition | AVC
• Why Simple Rules Produce Better Decisions | Conversation Agent – Valeria Maltoni
• A Culture of Trust | Arie Litovsky

Design and Development

• Lisp for The Modern Web | Vito Van
• String concatenation with Java 8 | Laurent Pellegrino
• Let’s Build a Metric 2: Getting the Units Right | DaedTech
• Infographic: 69 Web Design Tips | Six Revisions
• Writing Data Driven Tests for your Java Application | Java Code Geeks
• Indices point between elements | Made of Bugs
• SIMD in Rust | Huon on the Internet
• 10 Steps for Ramping into Ember.js Quickly | Atomic Object
• Job System 2.0: Lock-Free Work Stealing – Part 1: Basics | Molecular Musings

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Web image size prediction for efficient focused image crawling | Common Crawl
• Benchmarking Apache Samza: 1.2 million messages per second on a single node | LinkedIn Engineering
• Ask HighScalability: Choose an Async App Server or Multiple Blocking Servers? | High Scalability

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Linear Algebra in Julia | Alex Woods

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Same BMI, different body | Flowing Data

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• Deanonymization Made Simple | 0xAA – Random notes on security
• backdooring your javascript using minifier bugs | discrete blogarithm
• #NoHacked: Fixing the Injected Gibberish URL Hack | Google Webmaster Central

IaaS, PaaS, Saas and *aas

• Move your dusty Data backups to the Cloud | Google Cloud Platform

Link Collections

• Double Shot #1543 | A Fresh Cup
• Dew Drop – August 24, 2015 (#2075) | Morning Dew
• The Daily Six Pack: August 25, 2015 | Dirk Strauss