Reuters leads our day with an interesting story about a Tanzanian engineer who invented a low-cost water filter. For many countries, this could be a huge development. On Both Sides of the Table, Mark Suster gives us two interesting posts. First, he talks about high conviction when dealing with VC decisions, not worrying about consensus among the group. The second post is a rant about “unicorns”, and the culture that the valuation breeds.
As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.
Top Stories
Startups, Career and Process
- Why I Look for High Conviction, not Consensus, in Venture Capital Decisions | Both Sides of the Table
- Mobile Web Is Top Of Funnel, Mobile App Is Bottom Of Funnel | AVC
- 5 Ways Remote Teams Increase Software Quality | DZone Agile
- Avoiding the Dreaded Experience Tuples | DaedTech
- Why I Fucking Hate Unicorns and the Culture They Breed | Both Sides of the Table
Design and Development
- Microservice Deployment | Blog for coding addicts
- Writing a browser extensions for three browsers | Einar Egilsson
- A deeper theory of testing | Win-Vector
- Going Faster with Balrog | Ben Hearsum
- Autocomplete as an interface | Ben Kuhn
- Subversion Merge Limitations That Are Not In Git | Paul Hammant
- Care for your build system at least the same as for your code | Continuous Dev
Concurrency, Performance and Scalability
- Memory layout of multi-dimensional arrays | Eli Bendersky
AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms
- Coding, Visualizing, and Animating Bootstrap Resampling | Max Woolf
- Doubly and triply periodic functions | John D Cook
Security, Encryption and Cryptography
- Keybase’s New Key Model | Keybase
- Mobile Ad Networks as DDoS Vectors: A Case Study | CloudFlare
Link Collections
- Issue 126 for September 28, 2015 | Weekly Programming Digest
- Troy’s ultimate list of security links | Troy Hunt
- The Daily Six Pack: September 28, 2015 | Dirk Strauss
- Double Shot #1556 | A Fresh Cup
- Dew Drop – September 28, 2015 (#2099) | Morning Dew
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