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Re:Applicative by the ACM by scott_s on Friday January 09, 2015 @10:38AM (#8862623)
If you publish CS academic papers, the ACM is very relevant. (You may argue how relevant CS academic papers are, to which I would raise an eyebrow and say touche.)
Re:Applicative by the ACM by voidlogic on Friday January 09, 2015 @10:47AM (#8862669)
This.

And if you write "interesting" enough software you need to ping research papers for ideas and approaches.

The people who build glorified forms over data applications are always very quick to slam the ACM as being valueless, when it just lacks value for them. /rant