Stories by luu

Stuff I've Messed Up While Interviewing

Rules of thumb for novice designers (like myself)

Two JDK issues were closed as they duplicate each other

Forward Page Tables vs. Inverted Page Tables

A History of Modern 64-bit Computing (2007) [pdf]

Dynamic Linking

Tmux-up: bootstrap tmux sessions without complex tools, DSLs, or dependencies

What's the Actual Lower Bound?

The Socially Awkward Founder

Mainstream Intel Core Processors will not support AVX 512

The global flight from the family

H-index: editors behaving badly?

Stone Age Britons imported wheat

Chip Makers Will Merge in Deal Worth $11.8B

Intel Memory Protection Extensions

On understanding coinduction

Comment sections are poison: handle with care or remove them (2014)

Aliasing, pointer casts, and gcc

The harm done by tests of significance (2003) [pdf]

How TCP backlog works in Linux (2014)