lacampbell

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Comment · 7 years ago
Yeah sounds like it's his problem. Maybe he sucks at on-boarding, or maybe he's over-worked and it's easier to blame the underlings. Hope it doesn't mess with your head any more.
Comment · 7 years ago
Criticisms often bother us when we suspect they might be true I find. Not at all saying that your boss was right, but a lot of people have 'imposter syndrome' so it can become a case of 'agh, my negative internal monologue has been confirmed by an outside source'.

Is your boss just a bit of a dick that a lot of people dislike? If other people like your work it's probably way more about him than you.

Comment · 7 years ago
It's pretty good. Mainly in 'maintenance' mode, doing minor improvements. The whole stop letting stuff you can't change bother you and focus on what you can change. Common advice, but easier said than followed.
Comment · 7 years ago
What would an HN guidelines compliant post have looked like? Genuine question. This was an event that might have killed as many people as the holocaust, and someone said it was "well meaning". I thought I made a polite and non flamebaity response. Am I unable to disagree with that, or start a discussion about it? If I am, how would I do it?
Comment · 7 years ago
What are people using C++ for in 2019? Last time I used it was for a Qt desktop application of all things. I would imagine its main usage is in high performance or hardware constrained environments these days, but I'm curious what people are doing with it.

I do a lot of node.js programming, which uses C++ to write extensions, so here's hoping I rememeber it if/when I need to.

Comment · 7 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB4o5n2EGyA

Two times this video has been posted, and two times it's been flagged. Politician in center left UK party saying historys greatest mass murderer "did more good than harm".

Comment · 7 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB4o5n2EGyA

Here it is again. UK labour politician saying Mao did more good than harm. Why does this continually get flagged?

Comment · 7 years ago
How do we know?

Remember the Nazis were brought before an international court. The CCP never had a Nuremberg.

Comment · 7 years ago
You've lost me. Returning an interface isn't returning a concrete thing. It's returning the thing that implements the interface

I'm a very low level functional programmer. I'm big on immutability, big on not using loops and instead using map/flatMap/filter/fold, I tend to roll my own either and option implementations when they don't exist because it's the tidiest way of handling errors I've come across, etc etc. But when it comes to stuff like functors I don't get what it's buying me. What interesting stuff can I do if I know that both an option and a list can be mapped over?

I really need to look more deeply into it at some stage. I might be missing out on some powerful tools. Or it might be a bunch of stuff that's theoretically interesting but practically useless.

Comment · 7 years ago
It's interesting though how very well meaning utopian policies

The largest tragedy of the 21st century is that people still think these policies and these people were 'well-meaning' or 'it just went a bit wrong'. It seems that only when we defeat murderous totalitarians militarily that we understand them for what they are.

Comment · 7 years ago
Haven't had a coffee yet so go easy on me - doesn't this solve your issue?

    interface Functor<A> {
        map<B>(f: (a: A) => A): Functor<A>;
    }
You map over an option, you get an option. You map over an either, you get an either. etc etc.
Comment · 7 years ago
Why not our information? Nationalise the New York Times!
Comment · 7 years ago
Even in countries where it's illegal, it's common practice. It happens regularly in Singapore, one of the world's wealthiest nations.
Comment · 7 years ago
Does anyone really believe it was a suicide?

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