Stories by luu

Highly intelligent and successful people who hold weird beliefs

We used to build steel mills near cheap power, now that's where we put servers

The Power of Bugs (2007)

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