Communications of the ACM
Google Has A Plan To 'Fix' Online Privacy. Everybody Hates It
Google recently decided to adopt a new way to track users, and says it's more private than cookies and nearly as effective for…
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The Chess Player Who Couldn't Pass the Salt
AI: Soft and hard, weak and strong, narrow and general. Dear KV,
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The Unholy Trinity of Software Development
Tests, documentation, and code.
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Cloud Calipers
Naming the next generation and remembering that the cloud is just other people's computers.
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What Are You Trying to Pull?
A single cache miss is more expensive than many instructions.
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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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