Yes, you get a double dose of geek reading today, thanks to my terrible short term memory.

In the “other stuff” category, we have two very interesting posts. First, Dilbert (yes, the comic) has an excellent way to start your day. Anyone who writes typical software will know how that feels. Next, TechCrunch reports on the announcement of Paper from Dropbox. I am not sure if it is really a Google Docs competitor or trying for a different user segment, but it is definitely something to watch. For startups, Paul Graham has an excellent post on whether your startup is alive or dead based on your cash flow. As always, it is a very good read. Lastly, for all of the developers that write unit tests, the Atlassian blog has an open letter from an @ignored test. You know you have done this and probably have a few @ignored tests in your code right now.

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

Startups, Career and Process

• The Time We Looked For Work as a Software Development Team | Chocolate Tin
• Refactor Work with the Structure of Kanban and the Energy of Scrum | DZone Agile
• Default Alive or Default Dead? | Paul Graham

Design and Development

• Unit testing IO in Haskell | Pusher Blog
• How To Pick a Frontend Web Framework | Alexey Migutsky
• Vertical and Horizontal: Two Approaches to the Decorator Pattern | DZone Java
• Open letter from an @ignored test | Atlassian Blogs
• Flirting with Elixir | Localytics Eng

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Data Transfer With SCTP | DZone Integration

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• MIT echoes Big Hero 6 with microbot-like tech | The Next Web

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Monopoly pieces to show presidential funding | Flowing Data
• How to know if where you live is “up and coming”: fried chicken vs. coffee shops | Sam Floy
• Data Infrastructure Meta-Analysis: How Top Engineering Organizations Built Their Big Data Stacks | The Data Point
• Data Infrastructure at IFTTT | Engineering at IFTTT

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• Getting Started with Couchbase using Docker | Java Code Geeks

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• Adobe confirms new Flash vulnerability being exploited in targeted attacks, promises patch next week | VentureBeat
• Detecting Malware With Downloader Graph Analytics | Tudor Dumitras
• Another huge Adobe Flash exploit is out: time to uninstall! | The Next Web

Fun and Other stuff

• Visualize Your Contribution To Society | Dilbert
• Dropbox Announces Paper, A Google Docs Competitor | TechCrunch

Link Collections

• The Daily Six Pack: October 15, 2015 | Dirk Strauss
• Dew Drop – October 15, 2015 (#2112) | Morning Dew
• Double Shot #1566 | A Fresh Cup