Stories by luu

I am not a tinkerer

How Erasure Coding Is Not Like Replication

The VRML Dream Project

Dotsies: a font that uses dots instead of letters

“High-water mark” buffers

Inmate Receives 37 Years in Solitary Confinement for Updating Facebook

Large Text Compression Benchmark

The load-balanced capture effect

My Love-Hate Relationship with Stack Overflow

It’s a great time to be an entrepreneur

How bad is age discrimination in academia?

A combinator-based parsing library for C

HdrHistogram: A better latency capture method

UBF and VM opcocde design

Is teaching about instruction or selection?

Getting Process Invocations: The Hard Way

Why is programming thought to be exciting?

A day at Hacker School

Technology can take the hard rules of meritocracy too far

Catch 'em All: Using an Arduino to Trade Pokemon