Stories by luu

Criminal Background and Job Performance

How can I avoid my MacBook Pro giving me minor shocks?

Production Ready

UEFI boot: how does that actually work, then? (2014)

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