roblatham

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   by roblatham 6d ago

   There is indeed a Frank Wilhoit you're thinking of (died in 2010, active in political science and a professor at Drake University) The Frank Wilhoit quoted in parent is just some random dude who posted a pithy comment on a blog post.
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   by roblatham 2y ago

   it's an oldie but _Advanced Compiler Design and Implementation_ covers these concepts really well in a language-independent way.
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   by roblatham 3y ago

   that sounds right to me.. worked universit help desk in the late 90s. wow, the number of distressed people who kept their only copy of their thesis on this one floppy drive that no longer works. some harsh lessons in backups ...
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   by roblatham 3y ago

   Back in the early 1990s I typed my papers on a Smith-Corona typewriter with a daisy-wheel (Smith Cornoa called them "printwheels" but same thing.
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   by roblatham 8y ago

   Fall of 1996. guy on my freshman hall says "you should try linux". Installed slackware on everything I had for the next three years until finally switching to Debian. Fondest slackware memory is installing the media to a Syquest
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   by roblatham 8y ago

   Argonne National Laboratory | Lemont, IL (suburb of Chicago) | On-site | Full-Time | Visa Sponsorship Argonne National Laboratory has many different research areas. This specific posting is for working in the Math and Computer Science divis
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   by roblatham 11y ago

   Another good interface to GDB, especially if you like vi-style navigation, is cgdb: https://cgdb.github.io/