Stories by luu

The Loehmann's Model Finally Goes Out of Style

Intel Update on Moore's Law

General lessons from scaling large systems at Microsoft

Software Patents

A Special Graphics Device in R: the Null Device

Optimizing TeX Search

Python is Important for the Future of Social Science Research

External Memory

The "DeWitt Clause"

Dedeprecator: automatically replace deprecated methods

Ruby: Case versus If (and a wee bit about Unless)

Introduction to Parallel Programming in Modern Fortran

X server in 5000 lines of Common Lisp

EFForg/https-everywhere

2nd-grader’s buddy bench helps lonely classmates make friends

Chip investment languishes

Extending functionality of a final class in Scala

Project writeup: curated Twitter

Nanoengineer: nanotech CAD

TCMalloc: Thread-Caching Malloc