Stories by luu

A Gentle Primer on Reverse Engineering

The C library's strcmp routine is badly named

What real life good habits has programming given you? (2008)

Writing Web Applications in Go

On Interviewing (2013)

Long term support considered harmful

Working paper suggests online education can lower tuition costs

Counting CPU Cycles

Elite's crazy tokenized string routine

Postcards from the post-XSS world

“I got an email from Chase saying that all our assets are frozen”

Is running ads on a programming blog worth it?

Beyond the PDP-11: Architectural support for a memory-safe C abstract machine [pdf]

JavaScript to Lua translator

Nibble Sort Programming Contest

NBC stations refuse to air Comcast attack ad from conservative PAC

“Enterprise software” is a social, not technical, phenomenon

MPAA and ICE admit they yanked a man out of a movie for wearing Glass (2014)

AVX-512

Mass surveillance not effective for finding terrorists