Stories by luu

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)

Julia Calling Python Calling Julia...

Cycle-Accurate Nintendo 64 Simulator

Software's Receding Hairline

WebCachedImageView: lazy loading and caching images on Android

Valiant's Book Out: Probably Approximately Correct

How to Discourage Open Source Contributions

Quake2 Clone

A Survey of Practical Verification Algorithms