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> I was seriously considering starting a compilers YouTube channel even though I’m awkward in front of the camera. Doesn’t need to be a YT channel, a blog where you talk about this very complex and niche stuff would be awesome for many.
The comments are wildly fragmented in this thread. I agree with @torginus, the article has less and less of anything useful to people that want to get into compilers. Anyways, the "Who .. hires compiler engineer?" section is fairly vague in my opinion, so: AMD, Nvidia, Intel, Apple, Google definitely hire for compiler positions. These hire fairly 'in-open' so probably the best bets all around. Aside from this, Jane S…
> but for that certain language What do you mean by that?
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I might have been a bit harsh in how I phrased it, however if it's just a personal blog post, it does not belong on HN. I don't think most people here are interested in strangers' personal lives. If it was her who posted it, she should've made it more clear that this is a 'personal journey' post. If it was someone else without her permission, then that should've not done so. If you look at most of the discussion that…
There's so much wrong with this ... no it wasn't her who posted it, and no one needs her permission to do so. (And how do you know that they didn't get it?) And if it didn't belong on HN then it would have been flagged and killed. It wasn't because it isn't just about her personal life--it has useful and appropriate content for readers of HN. again, up front she says that there are two kinds of people she's writing f…
Then you turn around and claim that this was a technical article after all. And no, the advice of 'you have to be among the three dozen people that get accepted to MIT to do math' is an unnecessarily elitist piece advice, that's not even necessary, as I (and a lot of others) pointed out there are a ton of good books and resources you can just get started with.
I know HN disallows editorializing, but the title reads like it'll be an useful resource on compilers. The writer obviously chose that title in context of her personal blog, where it makes sense, but I maintain that a strangers life update is not interesting to the rest of us, and if I were the writer, I wouldn't be too happy if someone decided to direct a ton of eyeballs to my personal post.
I'd implore you to look around in the thread, most people had different expectations and complained about the same thing I did. Still the post was useful, since an interesting conversation happened around the topic of compilers.
And I'd like you to realize, that you are just one person sharing his personal opinion, not some arbiter of moral goodness, please stop attacking me, and I feel bad for having to defend myself.
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I might have been a bit harsh in how I phrased it, however if it's just a personal blog post, it does not belong on HN. I don't think most people here are interested in strangers' personal lives. If it was her who posted it, she should've made it more clear that this is a 'personal journey' post. If it was someone else without her permission, then that should've not done so. If you look at most of the discussion that…
There's so much wrong with this ... no it wasn't her who posted it, and no one needs her permission to do so. (And how do you know that they didn't get it?) And if it didn't belong on HN then it would have been flagged and killed. It wasn't because it isn't just about her personal life--it has useful and appropriate content for readers of HN. again, up front she says that there are two kinds of people she's writing f…
> First you chew me out for pointing out that this isn't a very good resource for compiler stuff as its more of an autobiographical post.
I never did any such thing. I didn't even bother to read past that false claim as I expect the rest to be similarly false and dishonest, and won't respond to anything else from that source.
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Rephrased: If a graduate with relevant coursework from a top institution struggles to find a job in a particular field, what sort of chances do the rest of the graduates from less known colleges have? It makes sense now, doesn't it?
UIUC and Perdue are not lesser known than MIT. Big state schools are roughly as known they just don’t have the same signal for being a superhuman.
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> What exactly do you think plagiarism is? Here’s one common definition: Both are about passing of something of your own. Plagiarism is about passing ideas of insights of as your own. It doesn't really matter, whether you copy it verbatim, present it in your own words or just use the concept. It does however matter how important that idea/concept/topic is in your work and the work you took it from without attribution…
>I have taken from the comments that it was only the case, that she rehashed ideas from other books, and I wanted to point out, that while this is a big deal for academic papers, it is not for books and basically expected. In addition to near verbatim quotes, she is also accused of copying stories beat for beat. That's much different than rehashing a few ideas from other works. It is not expected and it is very much…
> copying stories beat for beat. That's much different than rehashing a few ideas from other works. It is not expected and it is very much considered plagiarism by fiction writers.
Some operas are a greek play. There rehashes of the Faust, the Beggars Opera is a copy of a play from Shakespeare, there are modern versions of Pride and Prejustice, there are tons of stories that are a copy of the Westside Story, which is itself a copy of Romeo and Julia, which I thinks comes from an even older story. This often don't come with any attribution at all, although the listener is sometimes expected to know that the original exists. They change the settings, but the plot is basically the same. Do you consider all of that to be plagiarism? These would be all a reason to call it plagiarism when considering a paper, but for books nobody bats an eye. This is because authors don't sell abstract ideas or a plot, they sell concrete stories.
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> but for that certain language What do you mean by that?
I assume they mean those firms hire compiler engineers to work on the specific languages they use. Jane Street famously uses OCaml for pretty much everything. Not sure about Bloomberg, though a quick search shows that they have Bloomberg Query Language and Bloomberg Scripting Language, both proprietary.
Bloomberg also does use OCaml by the way, although probably not to the extent of Jane Street.
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I've got compiler jobs without ever touching LLVM. Even gcc has a better codebase and performance. If just its maintainers would behave as nice as the LLVM maintainers who are really nice. Eg with gcc you can write a jit in pure C. With LLVM you'd still need C++ for name lookup hooks. With qbe you won't need any of this. With lisp much less.
You got me to check out GCC and QBE, and I say, not having to bother with SSA does seem to make things a bit easier, with GCC's Gimple being a kind of pseudo-assembly language, and Generic being almost C. Still I think once you get over the hurdle of SSA-ifying your procedural code, LLVM is all right, and seems to be a lot more feature rich (I might be stupid, but I don't see how to make stack maps in GCC). Also GCC…
Just emit load and store instructions, and it'll be converted automatically.
What SSA gives you is substantially easier analysis and optimizations on the intermediate representation, so much that all compilers use it (yes, even GCC).
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One of her publishers pulled her book from print, publicly accused her of plagiarism, and asked other publishers to denounce her for plagiarism. That’s pretty damning evidence. If a publisher was on the fence they might pull her books quietly, but they wouldn’t make such a public attack without very good evidence that they thought would hold up in court. There was no equivocation at all.
That's a pretty damning response , sure. The evidence , at least the evidence that I found cited as evidence, appears less damning. Perhaps there is more damning evidence . What I found was on the order of the degree of cross copying and similar themes, etc. found in many pools of young writers going back through literary history. Rona Wang, whom I've never previously heard of, clearly used similar passages from her…
On the gripping hand
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There's so much wrong with this ... no it wasn't her who posted it, and no one needs her permission to do so. (And how do you know that they didn't get it?) And if it didn't belong on HN then it would have been flagged and killed. It wasn't because it isn't just about her personal life--it has useful and appropriate content for readers of HN. again, up front she says that there are two kinds of people she's writing f…
P.S. > First you chew me out for pointing out that this isn't a very good resource for compiler stuff as its more of an autobiographical post. I never did any such thing. I didn't even bother to read past that false claim as I expect the rest to be similarly false and dishonest, and won't respond to anything else from that source.