Stories by luu

Some Results of Research in Computational Number Theory

The Education Myth

What BitKeeper Got Wrong? (2005)

Stopping Time in PostgreSQL

Design of Lisp-based processors (1979) [pdf]

The Catch-22 of Being “Too Junior”

Project IceStorm: documenting the bitstream format of Lattice iCE40 FPGAs

Getting to Zero Exceptions

Will OpenCL Help Displace GPGPU?

The Digital Provide: Information (Technology), Market Performance, and Welfare

Strncpy() is not a “safer” strcpy()

The Internet's Original Sin (2014)

MIT Building 56 Tile Puzzle

Absence of evidence and confidence intervals

Why programming is hard (2006)

Rlundo: Undo in any program that uses readline

The OpenJDK Revised Java Memory Model

Joining Ringly: My NYC Startup Search

Bugs Everywhere

Catapult: An FPGA-based reconfigurable fabric for large-scale datacenters