Stories by luu

Raymond Chen, Microsoft’s Chuck Norris

A Look at Altera's OpenCL SDK for FPGAs

The Synthesizer Generator (1984) [pdf]

Dodging Abilify

Does donation matching work?

What is the appeal of dynamically-typed languages?

The Icarus Ultimatum

Are the benefits of moderate drinking a myth?

Why Is Swing Called Swing?

Mudjam: Create a multi-user dungeon game and share it here

Packetdrill: network stack testing tool

How About Constant Buffers?

Paxos vs. Viewstamped Replication vs. Zab [pdf]

Improving testing practices at Google

The Synthesizer Generator (1984) [pdf]

Understanding Network Failures in Data Centers (2011) [pdf]

“Information asymmetry” cuts both ways

There's No Such Thing as No Project Management

Signing an Arbitration Agreement with Your Employer

Floptical Disk