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The Impact of Perception on Technical Systems and Stakeholder Confidence
Insight
marcosmagueta.com1mo ago
Analysis: Cloudflare's Outage Root Cause Analysis Misses Systemic Lessons
Insight
ebellani.github.io6mo ago
Critical Analysis: Why Protocol Buffers Are Poorly Designed Technology
A strongly opinionated critique arguing that Protocol Buffers (protobuffers) are poorly designed, created by amateurs, and solve problems that only Google truly faces. The author contends that protobuffers are ad-hoc, filled with gotchas, difficult to compile, and that their bad design negatively impacts application code beyond just serialization layers.
Opinion
reasonablypolymorphic.com8mo ago
Don Knuth Shares His ChatGPT Experiment and Reflections
The article recounts Don Knuth's personal experiment with ChatGPT on 07 April 2023, shared as part of a correspondence with Stephen Wolfram. The results were intriguing enough for Knuth to share with friends and later post online, with minimal edits to his own commentary. The piece reflects on the interaction and its implications, offering a firsthand accoun
News
cs.stanford.edu9mo ago