Macworld starts our day with a bit of nostalgia, an ode to Kai’s Power Goo. I know this isn’t news but it shows you how much was possible 20 years ago and user interfaces still tend to suck now. First Round Review gives us an excellent post on scaling yourself as a technology leader. Anyone that is looking to lead people, even as an architect or technical lead, should be reading this. On AVC, Fred Wilson talks about getting the deal done. Sometimes you just need to bring in some cash (or release a product) so you accept some less than ideal terms to make things work. Valeria Maltoni has a great post on Conversation Agent where she talks about navigating human biases in predictions. Using the story of the chess match between Kasparov and Deep Blue really shows the effects of this kind of thing.

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

Startups, Career and Process

• The Keys to Scaling Yourself as a Technology Leader | First Round Review
• Navigating Human Biases in Predictions | Conversation Agent – Valeria Maltoni
• Getting The Deal Done | AVC
• How Long Are Your Iterations? Part 1 | Johanna Rothman
• Machines Are Better Than Humans at Hiring the Best Employees | Bloomberg
• Worst Developer Résumé in the World, Redux: Best Practices | DZone Agile

Design and Development

• Recursion, Tail Calls and Trampolines | Dave Atchley
• Java 8 Streams: filter and predicate negation | Java Code Geeks
• Using CSS flexible boxes | Mozilla Developer Network
• An Automated Market of Cypher-Annotated Microservices, Part 1 | DZone Integration
• Testing AKKA application with Spock | Java Code Geeks
• Open-sourcing PinLater: An asynchronous job execution system | Pinterest Engineering
• How view parameters are obtained/attached from/to the URL query string (examples)? | Java Code Geeks
• Testing with Data | Kyle Baley

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Least squares and regularization | Scott Sievert
• A rating system for asymmetric multiplayer games | Juho Snellman

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• Stream Processing with Apache Flink | brakmic.com

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• Kubernetes from the ground up: the scheduler | Kamal Marhubi
• To ECC or Not To ECC | Coding Horror

IaaS, PaaS, Saas and *aas

• Building a Near Real-Time Discovery Platform with AWS | Amazon AWS Big Data
• More flexibility, better Cloud Networking performance, GA of HTTPS Load Balancing | Google Cloud Platform

Fun and Other stuff

• An ode to Kai’s Power Goo | Macworld
• Google Fit now pulls in data from third-party food, fitness, and sleep apps | VentureBeat

Link Collections

• Double Shot #1588 | A Fresh Cup
• Dew Drop – November 19, 2015 (#2135) | Morning Dew