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Nelson Elhage

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Blog posts on systems, compilers, and performance.

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  • Design for Testability

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    Mar 6, 2016
  • What MongoDB got Right

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    Nov 1, 2015
  • Indices point between elements

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    Jul 17, 2015
  • Regular Expression Search with Suffix Arrays

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    Feb 1, 2015
  • New reptyr feature: TTY-stealing

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    Aug 20, 2014
  • Lightweight Linux Kernel Development with KVM

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    Dec 30, 2013
  • Tracking down a memory leak in Ruby's EventMachine

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    Mar 7, 2013
  • Why node.js is cool (it's not about performance)

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    Mar 12, 2012
  • BlackHat/DEFCON 2011 talk: Breaking out of KVM

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    Aug 8, 2011
  • Exploiting misuse of Python's "pickle"

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    Mar 20, 2011
  • reptyr: Changing a process's controlling terminal

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    Feb 8, 2011
  • reptyr: Attach a running process to a new terminal

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    Jan 21, 2011
  • Some Android reverse-engineering tools

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    Dec 27, 2010
  • CVE-2010-4258: Turning denial-of-service into privilege escalation

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    Dec 10, 2010
  • Some notes on CVE-2010-3081 exploitability

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    Nov 30, 2010
  • Why scons is cool

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    Nov 7, 2010
  • Configuring dnsmasq with VMware Workstation

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    Oct 24, 2010
  • Using Haskell's 'newtype' in C

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    Oct 11, 2010
  • amd64 and va_arg

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    Oct 4, 2010
  • A brief look at Linux's security record

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    Sep 26, 2010
  • Dear Twitter: Stop screwing over your developers.

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    Sep 12, 2010
  • How is duct tape like the force?

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    Sep 5, 2010
  • Write yourself an strace in 70 lines of code

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    Aug 29, 2010
  • Navigating the Linux Kernel

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    Aug 15, 2010
  • Suggestion time: What should I blog about?

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    Aug 8, 2010
  • Some musings on ORMs

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    Jul 18, 2010
  • Implementing a declarative mini-language in the C preprocessor

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    Jul 4, 2010
  • Check Plus: An EDSL for writing unit tests in C

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    Jun 26, 2010
  • Lab Notebooking for the Software Engineer

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    Jun 20, 2010
  • Wordpress tricks: Disabling editing shortcuts

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    Jun 13, 2010
  • Confessions of a programmer: I hate code review

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    Jun 6, 2010
  • Using X forwarding with screen by proxying $DISPLAY

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    May 30, 2010
  • Getting carried away with hack value

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    May 23, 2010
  • The Window Manager I Want

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    May 9, 2010
  • Software Engineers should keep lab notebooks

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    May 2, 2010
  • Some thoughts on Quora

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    Apr 4, 2010
  • Fun with the preprocessor: CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION hacks in Linux

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    Mar 28, 2010
  • Security doesn't respect abstraction boundaries

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    Mar 13, 2010
  • Followup to "A Very Subtle Bug"

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    Mar 3, 2010
  • A Very Subtle Bug

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    Feb 27, 2010
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