Mozilla starts our day with a big post on privacy and protecting its users. There is not much in terms of new information, but it is good to see Mozilla take a stand. On Coding VC they talk about the 100-hour rule, as a different option than the 10000-hour rule. The reasoning is that you don’t need to typically master something and complete the 10000 hours. You can probably know more than most people if you just spend 100 hours on something. GitHub Engineering has an interesting post on what they have done to create their own “metal cloud”. It is a different perspective on scale when everyone seems to be using GCE or EC2.

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

Top Stories

• Visualizing the Invisible | Mozilla

Startups, Career and Process

• Our Job Titles: Developer, Programmer or Software Engineer? | DaedTech
• How Reliable Are Experts? | DZone Agile
• Why Being Agile Doesn’t Need to Be Agile | DZone Agile
• The mob rules, ok? | Steve Tooke
• The 100-Hour Rule | Coding VC

Design and Development

• The dedoublifier, part one | Eric Lippert
• The Imperfect World of A/B Selection | Simon Engineering Blog
• Which thread executes CompletableFuture’s tasks and callbacks? | Java Code Geeks
• Efficient parameter pack indexing | Louis Dionne
• Using Mapper to parse JSON in Swift | Lyft Engineering
• The Features Project Jigsaw Brings To Java 9 | DZone Java
• Using Java 8’s ‘Optional’ is Optional | DZone Java
• Playing with Java 8’s Completable Futures | DZone Java
• Getting Started With CSS calc() | Smashing Magazine
• Specific Endpoints | Stack Builders

Concurrency, Performance and Scalability

• Caching Content for Holiday Streaming | The Netflix Tech Blog

AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms

• Graph Laplacian and other matrices associated with a graph | John D. Cook
• Populating Hyperspace | Earl Bellinger

Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL

• The 5 Ways Data Scientists Keep Learning After College | The Data Point

Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps

• GitHub’s Metal Cloud | GitHub Engineering
• Network statistics and archaeology with SiLK | Redpill Linpro

Link Collections

• Double Shot #1597 | A Fresh Cup
• Dew Drop – December 2, 2015 (#2143) | Morning Dew