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Research For Practice: Tracing and Debugging Distributed Systems; Programming By Examples
Expert-curated guides to the best of CS research.
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The Flame Graph
This visualization of software execution is a new necessity for performance profiling and debugging.
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Accountability in Algorithmic Decision Making
A view from computational journalism.
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How to De-Identify Your Data
Balancing statistical accuracy and subject privacy in large social-science datasets.
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Dismantling the Barriers to Entry
We have to choose to build a Web that is accessible to everyone.
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Testing Web Applications with State Objects
Use states to drive your tests.
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The Science of Managing Data Science
Lessons learned managing a data science research team.
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Parallel Processing with
A simple method of writing a collaborative system.
Parallel Processing with Promises
A simple method of writing a collaborative system.
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The Responsive Enterprise: Embracing the Hacker Way
Soon every company will be a software company.
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Evolution of the Product Manager
Better education needed to develop the discipline.
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Privacy, Anonymity, and Big Data in the Social Sciences
Quality social science research and the privacy of human subjects require trust.
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Quality Software Costs Money - Heartbleed Was Free
How to generate funding for free and open source software.
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Who Must You Trust?
You must have some trust if you want to get anything done.
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Automated QA Testing at Electronic Arts
A discussion with Michael Donat, Jafar Husain, and Terry Coatta
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A Primer on Provenance
Better understanding data requires tracking its history and context.
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Don't Settle For Eventual Consistency
Stronger properties for low-latency geo-replicated storage.
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Eventually Consistent: Not What You Were Expecting?
Methods of quantifying consistency (or lack thereof) in eventually consistent storage systems.
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