Ask HN: Anyone in SF interested in compilers?

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Post by pyronicide » Mon, Aug 16, 2010, 11:26 PM UTC

After realizing that I don't know nearly as much as I'd like about compilers, I went looking for a way to learn more. While there is online courseware from MIT and Stanford, I'd really like to meet in person with some people to work through exercises and questions together.

Towards that end, is anyone interested in a bi-weekly meeting with lectures on compilers? I'm envisioning something that has a lecture and hacking time for the latest exercises.

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#2

Post by wglb » Mon, Aug 16, 2010, 11:53 PM UTC

Ah, that would be fun, but alas! I am in Chicago.

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#3

Post by startupgrrl » Tue, Aug 17, 2010, 12:09 AM UTC

I'm currently writing a compiler. Drop me a line.

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Post by xlorm » Tue, Aug 17, 2010, 1:25 AM UTC

I'm interested, but I'm not moving to SF until October. I'll message you my email in case you get a late start or want to try to meet around then.

I took a compilers course in college but I was too busy to get as much out of it as I wanted. I've always wanted to go back over that stuff and I've been wanting to learn more about the innards of Python, so I was hoping to combine the two.

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Post by lsb » Tue, Aug 17, 2010, 1:37 AM UTC

Berkeley has a pretty good programming-languages program; a friend of mine has been working on parallelizing CSS rendering: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~lmeyerov/#activities

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Post by sn » Tue, Aug 17, 2010, 2:54 AM UTC

I'm reading "Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach" and yeah, learning more about compilers would be cool, but a big time commitment is not something I want ATM.

Might try asking the dojo if you're in south bay on any semi-regular basis.

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#7

Post by alok-g » Tue, Aug 17, 2010, 6:21 AM UTC

I am interested, but I am not based in SF. Let me know if not meeting in person works.