Stories by luu

Good idea bad implementation crosstalk

A lot of “idiotic” things have reasonable explanations (2011)

Mission and marketing in computer science degrees

How to detect if an object has been garbage collected in JavaScript

A major reason for departures at Slack was “remote work request rejected”

The Argument Against Quantum Computers and the Quantum Laws of Nature [pdf]

Do Elevated Viewpoints Increase Risk Taking?

COBS: A Compact Bit-Sliced Signature Index [pdf]

Things I wish I knew before making a paid extension (2019)

Differential Forms and Integration (2008) [pdf]

A Framework for Asynchronous Circuit Modeling and Verification in ACL2 [pdf]

Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf]

Kingfig Solves the Worst Parts of Managing Settings Pages

Libinput's bus factor is 1 (2019)

Fuzzing: On the Exponential Cost of Vulnerability Discovery [pdf]

Scala's “optimization” for small maps is a good example of harmful benchmarking

Why libinput doesn't have a lot of config options

Hemispherical Combustion Chamber

The effects on cognition of sleeping 4 hours per night for 12-14 days

A Proposed Method to Assess the Mechanical Properties of Treadmill Surfaces