Stories by luu

Disassembling and Reassembling a Mill

Self Induced Stress

Comparison is always false due to limited range of data type

Car-Free City: China Builds Dense Metropolis from Scratch

Wealth Illusions

Does reading books change your mind?

Unhangout: A platform for running large scale online un-conference-style events

Scalable Commutativity: Designing Scalable Software for Multicore Processors

Accidental art: when data visualization goes beautifully wrong

Visualizing Garbage Collection in Ruby and Python

Visual Schemer: scheme interpreter with semantic visualisations

Fixing Hiring Problems

Should C# warn on null dereference?

Smoothed Analysis: Why the Simplex Algorithm Usually Takes Polynomial Time

Going Against the Flow for Typeless Programming

Wisp: Small-but-featureful embeddable Lisp interpreter written in Haskell

Presidential Innovation Fellows

If there's no 16-bit layer in 64-bit Windows, how come 16-bit installers run?

On software aptitude tests

"Synchronizing files is just not a killer application" (2008)