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2018C Is Not a Low-level Language (queue.acm.org)
1323 points across 5 posts | 6 months ago with 393 comments
2012A Generation Lost in the Bazaar (queue.acm.org)
812 points across 3 posts | 2 years ago with 70 comments
2011OCaml for the Masses (queue.acm.org)
404 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 223 comments
2012A Generation Lost in the Bazaar (queue.acm.org)
338 points | 9 years ago with 132 comments
2010B-Heap vs. Binary Heap (queue.acm.org)
337 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 36 comments
2016Statistics for Engineers: Applying statistical techniques to operations (queue.acm.org)
201 points | 4 years ago with 10 comments
2009Bryan Cantrill interviews Arthur Whitney (queue.acm.org)
174 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 14 comments
2004Writing your own search engine is hard (queue.acm.org)
160 points | 1 year ago with 79 comments
2016Immutability Changes Everything (queue.acm.org)
151 points | 2 years ago with 94 comments
2004A Conversation with Alan Kay (queue.acm.org)
150 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 21 comments
2010Sir, Please Step Away from the ASR-33 (queue.acm.org)
148 points | 2 years ago with 278 comments
2013There's Just No Getting Around It: You're Building a Distributed System (queue.acm.org)
147 points | 6 years ago with 44 comments
2011Creating Languages in Racket (queue.acm.org)
127 points | 3 years ago with 44 comments
2004First, Do No Harm: A Hippocratic Oath for Software Developers (queue.acm.org)
101 points | 4 years ago with 70 comments
2014The Curse of the Excluded Middle (queue.acm.org)
98 points across 2 posts | 3 months ago with 33 comments
2012A Mouse is a Database (queue.acm.org)
93 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 8 comments
2014Don't Settle for Eventual Consistency (queue.acm.org)
91 points | 6 years ago with 9 comments
2016Borg, Omega, Kubernetes: Lessons learned over a decade (queue.acm.org)
90 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 12 comments
2006The Rise and Fall of CORBA (queue.acm.org)
85 points | 9 months ago with 150 comments
2011BufferBloat: What's Wrong with the Internet? (queue.acm.org)
78 points | 10 years ago with 26 comments
2004James Gosling talks about virtual machines, security, and Java (queue.acm.org)
74 points | 10 months ago with 3 comments
2016Optimizations on Linear Search (queue.acm.org)
73 points | 3 years ago with 59 comments
2006Hidden in Plain Sight (queue.acm.org)
71 points across 2 posts | 5 months ago with 2 comments
2013The Challenge of Cross-language Interoperability (queue.acm.org)
71 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 3 comments
2016Life Beyond Distributed Transactions: An Apostate’s Opinion (queue.acm.org)
67 points | 6 years ago with 7 comments
2012Managing Technical Debt (queue.acm.org)
64 points | 7 years ago with 23 comments
2016Logical Clocks Are Easy (queue.acm.org)
61 points | 5 years ago with 6 comments
2011The Most Expensive One-byte Mistake (queue.acm.org)
60 points | 10 years ago with 53 comments
2011Did Ken, Ritchie and Brian choose wrong with NUL-terminated text strings? (queue.acm.org)
55 points | 6 years ago with 55 comments
2014Domain-Specific Languages and Code Synthesis Using Haskell (queue.acm.org)
53 points | 7 years ago with 6 comments
2006It Isn’t Your Father’s Realtime Anymore: The Misuse of a Noble Term (queue.acm.org)
49 points | 8 years ago with 47 comments
2011The Robustness Principle Reconsidered (queue.acm.org)
48 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 1 comments
2012Getting What You Measure (queue.acm.org)
46 points | 3 years ago with 3 comments
2019The Evolution of Management (queue.acm.org)
45 points | 2 years ago with 9 comments
2014There's No Such Thing as a General-purpose Processor (queue.acm.org)
44 points | 5 years ago with 11 comments
2013Realtime GPU Audio (queue.acm.org)
43 points | 7 years ago with 4 comments
2011Bufferbloat: Dark Buffers in the Internet (queue.acm.org)
40 points | 9 years ago with 9 comments
2011How the embeddability of Lua impacted its design (queue.acm.org)
40 points | 6 years ago with 11 comments
2011A Co-Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks (queue.acm.org)
40 points | 6 years ago with 9 comments

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