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The Most Expensive One-Byte Mistake
Did Ken, Dennis, and Brian choose wrong with NUL-terminated text strings?
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Arrogance in Business Planning
Technology business plans that assume no competition — ever.
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The Robustness Principle Reconsidered
In 1981, Jon Postel formulated the Robustness Principle. Although described for implementations of TCP, it was quickly accepted as a...
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Computing Without Processors
Heterogeneous systems allow us to target our programming to the appropriate environment.
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Passing a Language Through the Eye of a Needle
How the embeddability of Lua impacted its design.
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If You Have Too Much Data, Then 'Good Enough' Is Good Enough
In today's humongous database systems, clarity may be relaxed, but business needs can still be met.
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Scalable SQL
How do large-scale sites and applications remain SQL-based?
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Does Deterrence Work in Reducing Information Security Policy Abuse By Employees?
Methods for evaluating and effectively managing the security behavior of employees.
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The One-Second War
Finding a lasting solution to the leap seconds problem has become increasingly urgent.
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Weapons of Mass Assignment
A Ruby on Rails app highlights some serious, yet easily avoided, security vulnerabilities.
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A Co-Relational Model of Data For Large Shared Data Banks
Contrary to popular belief, SQL and noSQL are really just two sides of the same coin.
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Successful Strategies For IPv6 Rollouts. Really.
Knowing where to begin is half the battle.
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Returning Control to the Programmer: SIMD Intrinsics For Virtual Machines
Exposing SIMD units within interpreted languages could simplify programs and unleash floods of untapped processor power.
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National Internet Defense - Small States on the Skirmish Line
Despite the global and borderless nature of the Internet's underlying protocols and driving philosophy, there are significant ways in which it remains substantively...
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System Administration Soft Skills
How can system administrators reduce stress and conflict in the workplace?
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A Plea from Sysadmins to Software Vendors: 10 Do's and Don'ts
What can software vendors do to make the lives of system administrators a little easier?
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Virtualization: Blessing or Curse?
Managing virtualization at a large scale is fraught with hidden challenges.
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UX Design and Agile: A Natural Fit?
Talking with Julian Gosper, Jean-Luc Agathos, Richard Rutter, and Terry Coatta.
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