lacampbell

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.

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.

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".

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

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

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.

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.

    interface Functor<A> {
        map<B>(f: (a: A) => A): Functor<A>;
    }

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 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)

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.