Stories by luu

Quickr: Lazily Approximating Complex AdHoc Queries in BigData Clusters [pdf]

Regex that only matches itself

Stubborn Reliance on Intuition and Subjectivity in Employee Selection [pdf]

The Long-Term Effects of Cash Assistance [pdf]

Numba: a Python JIT

The Problem with Public Bug Databases

Microsoft Chrome

iPhone texts and calls can go to the wrong number

Dalsegno: write games, see your changes immediately

Performance estimation: a worked example using bloom filters

Linked Array Queues

Stack Ranking

Libasync: a cross-platform event loop library written completely in D

KLEE: a symbolic virtual machine built on top of LLVM

How breakpoints are set

How Windows shutdown became so complicated

RetroGit

Dal Segno: see the effect of code changes instantly

A tour of random forests

Which encoding opens CSV files correctly with Excel on both Mac and Windows?