- This paper is excellent for many reasons, but I want to emphasize how approachable it is. Anyone working as a developer can read this and get insights.by cosmic_quanta - 18 hours ago
This stands in s t a r k contrast to other disciplines (e. g. Physics) where papers are usually ultra dense, making it hard to read even for subject-matter experts.
- I wrote a paper about how I think trust should work for software dependencies.by mschwaig - 17 hours ago
It very much builds on the hash-based cache lookup mechanism this paper calls constructive traces (in contrast to what they call deep constructive traces) to eliminate transitive trust relationships.
- Co-author Simon Peyton Jones is an ACM Fellow known for the Glasgow Haskell Compiler. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Peyton_Jonesby esafak - 16 hours ago
- Neil Mitchell is also an author of Shake which is based on this paper.by mkleczek - 14 hours ago
Buck and Buck2 from Meta are descendants. Buck2 is an excellent piece of software. Too bad it is still niche.
- Why would MS use Wordpress for their blog? (judging by wp-content in the URL). Don't they have something internal?by der_gopher - 12 hours ago
- This paper is so important. Just imagine how much pain could have been avoided if the Gitlab and Github developers read this before making the steaming shit pile of Github Actions.by tsss - 11 hours ago