Stories by luu

How to Make Your Own Smart AC

Education in the second machine age

An argument against call/cc (2012)

The hidden local costs of deforestation in the tropics

Call/Return Microbenchmarking and Call Frame Allocation

GDB tricks

A Memory Allocator (2000)

My Unexpectedly Awesome AP Computer Science Class

NUMA-Aware Reader-Writer Lock Experiments

Why is malloc+memset slower than calloc?

How the US patent system is strangling US innovation

Disorder and determinism

What Do Linux Developers Say in Commit Messages?

The Last Days of the Communist Party in Vietnam?

Users don't always conform to the perfect visions of engineers

Systems Software Research Is Irrelevant (2000)

Jewelry That's Made Only of Light Beamed onto Your Skin

Why I do not want to work at Google (2011)

Unsound and Incomplete

API Design as If People Actually Mattered