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If this were Gawker (RIP), Buzzfeed, Upworthy, or another content farm, then yes, you'd have a point. This is ACM Queue, though. Here's some other works you mig
by cratermoon 3y ago
If this were Gawker (RIP), Buzzfeed, Upworthy, or another content farm, then yes, you'd have a point. This is ACM Queue, though. Here's some other works you might never have read, based on their titles.
- Go To Statement Considered Harmful <https://homepages.cwi.nl/~storm/teaching/reader/Dijkstra68.pdf https://homepages.cwi.nl/~storm/teaching/reader/Dijkstra68.p...>
- Why Johnny Can't Encrypt: A Usability Evaluation of PGP 5.0 <https://web.archive.org/web/20140712002547/http://www.gaudior.net/alma/johnny.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20140712002547/http://www.gaudio...>
- Remembrance of Data Passed <http://simson.net/clips/academic/2003.IEEE.DiskDriveForensics.pdf http://simson.net/clips/academic/2003.IEEE.DiskDriveForensic...>
- Reflections on Trusting Trust <http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=358198.358210 http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=358198.358210>
- No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering <https://doi.org/10.1109%2FMC.1987.1663532 https://doi.org/10.1109%2FMC.1987.1663532>
- The Emperor's Old Clothes <https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/358549.358561 https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/358549.358561>
- The next 700 programming languages. <https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~crary/819-f09/Landin66.pdf https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~crary/819-f09/Landin66.pdf>
- Attention Is All You Need <https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762 https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762>
As a matter of opinion, there are far more worthy reads in programming and computer science with "clickbait" titles than with more staid academic titles. There are untold numbers of forgettable works with forgettable titles.
- davecb 3y agoACM noticed a trend and created the "You Don't Know Jack" series to capture more of them.
- chefandy 3y agoNone of that means it's good, and it certainly doesn't mean I have to like it. In fact, clickbait titles on good content is worse than bad content because it makes it look cheap before anyone reads the first word.