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How Scripting Misses the Mark
Scripting languages promise easy automation but prove difficult to learn. Let's stop focusing on simplified syntax and instead focus on understandability and learnability...
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Computers for Learning: Charisma that Fails to Disrupt?
Two books examine why large-scale learning technology often doesn’t achieve expectations. Technology can improve learning at scale, but charismatic stories about...
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Why Great Programmers Pull Back the Curtain While Programming
Want to be a great programmer? If so, you have to pull back the curtain and learn how software really works. A deeper understanding helps programmers further their...
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Time To End The vi/Emacs Debate
If you still use Emacs, I feel for you. Perhaps it is time to give vi a try.
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The Emerging Technology Landscape in China
Observations about the emerging technology landscape in China, looking at mobile social networking, mobile payments, taxi hailing, and same or next day delivery...
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Budget Beowulf Clusters
At SIGCSE 2015, five CS educators brought and live-demo'd the low-cost Beowulf clusters they had built for teaching parallel and distributed computing.
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Recommended SF Reading For Computer Scientists
Courtesy of a SIGCSE 2014 BOF, here are some SF books containing themes of special interest to computer scientists.
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Through A Google Glass, Darkly
I have been wearing Google Glass as both a technical assessment of utility and as a social study in human dynamics and expectations.
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Privacy and Google Glass
Why has there been so much negative sentiment about Google Glass in the press regarding privacy? This article looks at privacy from two different perspectives,...
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Why HCI Should Listen to Mothers
A call for the HCI community to spend some design effort on helping new mothers with the considerable physical and emotional challenges they face.
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Reaching For Engelbart's Vision of the Future
A meditation on Douglas Engelbart's impact on interactive computing.
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Coping With Linux Distro Fragmentation (visualized in One Giant Diagram)
I describe software incompatibility problems caused by fragmentation in Linux-based operating systems and present one potential solution.
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Intermittent Net and Mobile/Cloud Development
Intermittent Net: The Importance of Distributed Thinking in Mobile/Cloud Application Development (and Usage)
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U.K. Students Turned Into Goldfish By Social Networking
On the social networking obsession among U.K. students: It's the very air they breathe.
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Who Needs a Chromebook?
Is Google's new Chromebook a fundamental change in personal computing? Or is it just another netbook?
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Information Privacy: Changing Norms and Expectations
That picture of you at a family reunion, squinting into the sun, can rarely be delimited by a physical location once it is placed on the web. Instead, information...
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Who Needs a Tablet?
Tablets do not solve a mainstream problem, they only serve a niche.
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Who Needs a Netbook?
In only a couple years, improved smartphones and laptops have closed the niche that netbooks lived in. Rather than mourn the loss of netbooks, let's celebrate their...
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Old Geeks Never Die, They Just Get Grumpier
With age comes wisdom, or so they say. But when we geeks age, does it make us wiser or just grumpier?
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