Stories by luu

Intuitive hygienic macros (2009)

Pinhole: a falling ball demo

ZISC: Zero Instruction Set Computer (1989)

Sex, Lies, and Economists

The Skill Combo That Earns a 10% Wage Premium

Why Ebay Tells Manufacturers in China What You're Searching For

If I ever design a first course in compilers, I'll do it backwards

Entrepreneurship is on the decline in America – but it will turn around soon

TCP/IP networking stack in pure OCaml

A tale of two rewrites (2009)

How to defeat the purpose of IEEE floating point (2008)

Logic programming is overrated

Logic Programming is Underrated (2013)

The Infinitely Profitable Program (2008)

A Fast, Minimal Memory, Consistent Hash Algorithm

The K8 JavaScript shell (2011)

Hash functions: An empirical comparison (2008)

Implementation notes: sparse_hash, dense_hash, sparsetable

Xxhash: fast non-cryptographic hash algorithm

Look at the humongous type that Hindley-Milner infers for this tiny program