Communications of the ACM
Innovation Is Overrated: A Provocation
Digital innovation is not working in the interest of the whole of society. It is time to radically rethink its purpose without…
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Code Hoarding
Committing to commits, and the beauty of summarizing graphs.
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Pickled Patches
On repositories of patches and tension between security professionals and in-house developers.
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Outsourcing Responsibility
What do you do when your debugger fails you?
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This Is the Foo Field
The meaning of bits and avoiding upgrade bogdowns.
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A Lesson in Resource Management
Waste not memory, want not memory — unless it doesn't matter.
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The Naming of Hosts Is a Difficult Matter
Also, the perils of premature rebooting.
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Cherry-Picking and the Scientific Method
Software is supposed be a part of computer science, and science demands proof.
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