lacampbell

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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".

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?

How do we know?

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

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.

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.

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>;
    }

Why not our information? Nationalise the New York Times!

Even in countries where it's illegal, it's common practice. It happens regularly in Singapore, one of the world's wealthiest nations.

Does anyone really believe it was a suicide?

I don't understand wealthy Americans at all. It seems like they want to abolish the concepts of borders and immigration control entirely. I assume it's so they can more readily access cheaper labour, which would explain why poorer americans generally take the opposite stance.

Ethnically Chinese is often used to mean Han, both in English and Mandarin.

I asked him how come he didn't know how to copy-paste. His response was - I am retired now and there's nobody to tell me or teach me. I can see the cognitive decline.

Are you positive that for the 15 years he spent using a computer at work he just wasn't constantly asking younger people in the office to do stuff for him and never learned because computers are scary?

I've seen it before from people who have been using computers at work for decades.

I love the idea of smaller more logical operating systems. I am surprised that in the era of giant tech companies with top programmers and a lot of resources the most commercially viable strategy is still "try and paper over the complexities of linux" instead of starting something smaller and more modern.

You're arguing past the GP. They're saying "here's some practical tips, in the real world, at this point in space time, to stay safe while riding a bicycle". And you're talking about how that sucks, and it shouldn't have to be that way. Ok right, it shouldn't. But that's how it is. Do you want to ride a bicycle safely or not?

I'm a long time cycle commuter and you are spot on. If your lane is obstructed, switch lanes. So much safer than just hoping you won't get doored.

Presumably named after Jomo Kenyatta, who was Kenyas first president in the 60s and 70s.

I can't really tell you why that name took off, maybe due to some of these Americans, who were presumably named after the Kenyan president?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenyatta_(given_name)

There's a bit of irony in the UK state run broadcaster doing this, giving the UKs poor track record on freedom of speech.

Maybe they understood the point and disagreed with it.

I did, and I think she doth protest too much.

Again, picture the picture-fedora. What if the dude told you "it's just a natural part of the process of achieving goals" ? Would you think to yourself "wow there's a well rounded individual who handled that well"? Or would you think he was a fucking weirdo?

That's not healthy. Rejection is a part of life. The best response is to accept it, assess whether it warrants an adaption, and move on.

If you think I'm being harsh, picture this - what if a man made a fedora out of the profile pictures of all the women that had rejected him on tinder? Same principle really.

My comment was very simple. The fact that it's demonized mean less uninformed people take LSD.

I don't know why you started ranting about people thinking they can fly etc. If you know anything about the drug you know that a bad experience can involve no physical harm.

My argument is that it's naive to think that the average punter should start casually taking LSD. It's powerful, as you yourself thought out.

You're probably the kind of person who researches LSD, maybe you were on erowid, you knew how long it would last, what rough dosage to take, what to expect etc etc. You'd know you need to be in a good 'setting' to have a good time.

That is not the way 99% of people drug-taking people approach drugs. They get offered it and they go 'yeah ok!'. Bad trips would happen all the time if it was as popular as weed or booze.

I didn't specify context because it wasn't necessary.

Getting flashbacks to that SP episode where the San Fran people smell their own farts with that sentence.

The means that it should be approached in a thoughtful and respectful manner, just like other powerful things.

Cars are incredibly powerful too, and used by the masses. The result is endless suburbia and drivers killing people because they are distracted or reckless or impaired.

Best to keep it to the enthusiasts. It's good that acid has avoided success at all costs.

Eh, I think it's pretty good that it's only really taken by enthusiasts. It's not really a party drug, IME it's for drug nerds who want to 'expand their mind' etc. If everyone and their dog was taking it on a friday night to have fun, the world would be a much worse place IMO.

Are you not the least bit worried about your suitcase being stolen?