Today: Human needs, your voice, and the 1%

1. Programming compassion There's a certain kind of brain damage that leaves the intellect intact, but removes emotions. People with this affliction will analyze options endlessly, but never arrive at a final decision. Like an engine needs fuel, humans need love, respect, and a sense of purpose. In fact, feelings are essential to being fully conscious. If we're trying to build an artificial mind, according to Spencer Critchley, then intelligence might be the easiest part. 2. Who will you see at Velocity? Velocity registration is now open. From CTOs to software developers and senior network administrators, you'll see them all at Velocity. We have confirmed attendees from every type of company, large and small:Blackmesh, Comcast, Athena Health, USAA,Walmart, and Southwest Airlines, to name a few. We have a limited number of discounted tickets this year, so if getting a low price is important to you, you have only 20 days left to get the lowest discount possible. Reserve your spot → 3. Prometheus on Raspberry Pi Prometheus is a new open-source service monitoring system and time series database written in Go. Even if you're not ready to cast aside your servers for Raspberry Pi, you'll want to learn more about Prometheus, especially for monitoring Docker. 4. Visualizing Cascading workflows The Etsy people are huge fans of measuring things: "if it moves, graph it" is one of their mantras. As they are also enthusiastic about sharing, they've just announced to you, the Hadooping public, the open source release of Sahale, a tool for visualizing Cascading workflows. 5. Lean enterprise webcast For companies with rigid financial management processes, the rules are much different compared to small startups. Lean Enterprise author, Joanne Molesky, explains how to keep up with product innovation and implement lean and agile principles, while coping with the heavy compliance and financial regulations intrinsic to big business. Wednesday, March 4 at 10 am PT Register now → 6. SPDY is dead—long live HTTP/2! Earlier this week Google announced that they will deprecate support for SPDY. While SPDY is dead, the HTTP/2 future is bright and shining, writes Billy Hoffman.Here's why. 7. Your voice is your passport As mobile commerce grows, biometrics is poised to take a greater role in retail,even beyond mobile payments. 8. The 1% who buy on phones (it's not who you think) 73% of U.S. consumers shop online these days, but when it comes to purchasing, only 27% actually buy online in any given week, and only 1% use their phones for the purchase. A new study of consumer behavior shows what is really going on. 9. 5 ways to make your site smaller and faster A web developer's work is never done. No matter how efficient your site is, there's always pressure to make it faster, smaller, better. David Walsh has 5 tips for incredibly easy gains in performance, guaranteed to remove the pressure for at least a while. 10. The impatience economy A generation ago, people were content to wait 10 days or more to get a reply from a business query, typically by a letter in the mail. Today, the amount of time people are willing to wait has dropped to 10 minutes. That's for a business reply. In the impatience economy, winning brands are quick to learn, leapfrog, and leave laggards behind.