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José Manuel Calderón Trilla (@jmct.bsky.social)
@josecalderon
Director @HaskellFound. Formerly faculty @umdcs and @galois. Compilers and all that Jazz. I can also be found @jmct.bsky.social I miss Yorkshire
DC|Ottawa
Joined January 2009
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    Everyone is piling on this and they don’t get it. This is amazing. Just get the AI interviewer to say you’ve got the job with a large signing bonus and then take them to court when the company doesn’t pay up.
    Excited to introduce the world’s first AI interviewer, gpt-vetting. With gpt-vetting, you can interview 100x more candidates in less time & candidates get a more enjoyable, gamified, and less biased interview experience. You define the skills you want the interview to focus on,
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    Replying to @Komaniecki_R
    Even if she was… why would you ever do this? You tune to the thing that’s hardest to re-tune
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    Can folks reply to this with links to tweets or screenshots of particularly tricky but short snippets of C? The sort of code that serves even the most experienced C programmers a slice of humble pie?
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    A group in my compilers class is making a web assembly backend for our Lisp-like languages. They’ve decided that they needed a name and logo:
    Three students wearing purple T-shirts that say “wacket” and have a hammer and nail forming a lambda as the logo
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    A student had written `if (big == true)` and I said that since `big` is a Boolean, you can just write `if (big)` and she goes “you sound just like my parents”. I’ll be chucking about this all day, it’s amazing.
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    You want to stay relevant as a software developer for the next 10 years? These are 3 major things you should focus on: - S - K - I
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    Do you need to understand Monads to be a good engineer? No. But does being able to understand Monads make you a good engineer? Also no.