Communications of the ACM
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
How large language models are influencing online communities.
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A System Is Not a Product
Stopping to smell the code before wasting time reentering configuration data.
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Scale Failure
Using a tool for the wrong job is OK until the day when it isn't.
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Wanton Acts of Debuggery
Keep your debug messages clear, useful, and not annoying.
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Debugging on Live Systems
It is more of a social than a technical problem.
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File-System Litter
Cleaning up your storage space quickly and efficiently.
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Think Before You Fork
Kode Vicious's thoughts on forking, config files, and using internal wikis.
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Coder's Block
Programming is a creative endeavor, and therefore there is such a thing as coder's block. What does it take to clear the blockage?
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Forest For the Trees
With the amount of disk space available to the modern programmer, and the lack of parental supervision in most...
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Literate Coding
While it is true that "programmers aren't English majors," there are many days that I wish they were, or that...
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Version Aversion
The way you number your releases communicates more than you might think.
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Presenting Your Project
The what, the how, and the why of giving an effective presentation.
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Plotting Away
Dear KV, I've been working with some code that generates massive data sets, and . . . I'm finding that more and more often I...
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The Data-Structure Canon
Data structures are part of the foundation of computer science. It pays to revisit them from time to time.
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Taking Your Network's Temperature
A prescription for capturing data to diagnose and debug a networking problem.
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Broken Builds
Frequent broken builds could be symptomatic of deeper problems within a development project.
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