Stories by luu

Cheating in Single-Player Freemium Games

The TCP/IP Drinking Game

Inmos Transputer Emulator

Omniscient Debugging (2007)

Lifetimes of cryptographic hash functions

How Net Neutrality Hurts the Poor

IBM’s OpenPOWER Foundation allows 3rd party coherent hardware accelerators

The remarkable persistence of power and privilege

The Hash Function Lounge

Strongtalk: A High-Performance Smalltalk With An Optional Type System

Google acquires a taste for Power – IBM's processors, that is

The Well-Rounded Technologist

What Is a Photocopier?

Blameless PostMortems and a Just Culture

Computing π with Chudnovsky and GMP

The Simplicity Toolkit vs. The Complexity Toolkit

Transputer

Some Internet wisdom on R documentation

Killing a Python WAT: Forcing immutable default arguments

Lucky to Be a Programmer