Stories by luu

A sprightly history of the glum designs behind the world of modern work

Michael Lewis’s HFT Book: More of a Dark Market Than a Lit One

The Beauty of Roots

Interactive Product Manuals

What Michael Lewis Gets Wrong About High-Frequency Trading

It's the Latency, Stupid

Are volatile reads really free?

AMD's Jaguar Microarchitecture

Stopping a Shortcut to In-State Tuition

The next revolution after Git

How Finance Gutted Manufacturing

Rote learning and programming

Risk compensation

The workspace-based, image-oriented programming paradigm

IBM PC Model 5150 JavaScript emulator

IBM Watson: Overprovisioned “Big Iron”?

Goodbye, Google

DRM Helmets: An Idea Whose Time Has Come (2002)

How many 32-bit RISC CPUs fit in an FPGA? Now vs. 1995?

Google, EBay, and the Roots of Collusion