Google leads the day with their smart replies for Inbox by Gmail. There is also a post on Google Research regarding these sorts of replies. Overall, a very cool idea, but we will see how it works in practice. For those of you in the startup world, Jared Cohen has an interesting post on the taxes required when you exercise your stock options. This has always seemed like a black art to me, so any explanation is useful. Brandon Chu gives us an excellent description of Product Management, and what he has done during his career.

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

Top Stories

• Computer, respond to this email: Introducing Smart Reply in Inbox by Gmail | Official Gmail Blog

Startups, Career and Process

• Estimates, #NoEstimates and the Prisoner’s Dilemma | Gil Zilberfeld
• Loose Software Supply Chain Interactions Are Actually Bi-Directional | DZone Agile
• Practicing Well-Crafted Design | DZone Agile
• What will the taxes be if I exercise my startup options? | Jared Cohen
• The Black Box of Product Management | Brandon Chu

Design and Development

• Java Memory Architecture (Model), Garbage Collection and Memory Leaks | Java Code Geeks
• Akka Typed Actors: Exploring the receiver pattern | Java Code Geeks
• How to write better code using mutation testing | BlockScore Blog
• JSF 2.2 Create a custom Hello World component in 30 seconds | Java Code Geeks
• Corporations and OSS Do Not Mix | cat /dev/brain
• Flexbox For Interfaces All The Way: Tracks Case Study | Smashing Magazine
• What we learned from rewriting our robotic control software in Swift | Sunset Lake Software

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Computer, respond to this email. | Google Research

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• The problem with the data science language wars | Wes McKinney
• Anatomy Of Setting Up An Elasticsearch N-Gram Word Analyzer | Java Code Geeks

Security, Encryption and Cryptography

• A few things about Redis security | antirez
• How Carders Can Use eBay as a Virtual ATM | Krebs on Security

Link Collections

• The Daily Six Pack: November 3, 2015 | Dirk Strauss
• Double Shot #1577 | A Fresh Cup
• Dew Dump – November 3, 2015 (#2125) | Morning Dew
• The Daily Six Pack: November 4, 2015 | Dirk Strauss