Stories by luu

Hidden dangers of team building rituals

Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They Are from Nigeria? (2012)

JIT Compilation Without (Much) Assembler in GNU C

Distributed purely functional programming, part 2

Surprise Text Message Sent by Google Voice

Why I’ll Never Work at Microsoft

Relaxed-Memory Concurrency

Wayland in Gnome: two progress reports

So you want to write a fast Python? (2011)

Intel memory ordering, fence instructions, and atomic operations (2009)

Do Object-Oriented Languages Need Special Hardware Support? (1995) [pdf]

Four Main Languages for Analytics, Data Mining, Data Science

HP Holds Navy Network ‘Hostage’ for $3.3 Billion (2010)

Byte Addressing: From Laboratory to Practice [pdf]

High-level CPU (2008)

Hundreds of Swing Copters clones are already littering Google Play

Software estimation considered harmful? (2011)

Python extend() without a list comprehension

The White House Gives Up on Making Coders Dress Like Adults

Ftrace: The hidden light switch