The downside of being better than everyone else is psople tend to assume you're pretentious.
I learned FP by doing it, not asking around what monads are. There are plenty of great tutorials and no one has ever seriously talked about monads in that way.
The only time you really need to know what monads are is when you are building a new one.
The downside of being better than everyone else is psople tend to assume you're pretentious.
The article used the word "smugness", not "pretention". They don't quite mean the same thing. Being merely better than someone might certainly seem pretentious depending on context.
Telling everyone about it (in a context without relevance or evidence), however, is undeniably smug.
I like how you respond to an article addressing smugness in FP by starting your post by "The downside of being better than everyone else is people tend to assume you're pretentious".
I guess the OP doesn't even have to make his case when people like you serve such an unadulterated example of the very problem he was describing.
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The downside of being better than everyone else is psople tend to assume you're pretentious.
I learned FP by doing it, not asking around what monads are. There are plenty of great tutorials and no one has ever seriously talked about monads in that way.
The only time you really need to know what monads are is when you are building a new one.
The downside of being better than everyone else is psople tend to assume you're pretentious.
The article used the word "smugness", not "pretention". They don't quite mean the same thing. Being merely better than someone might certainly seem pretentious depending on context.
Telling everyone about it (in a context without relevance or evidence), however, is undeniably smug.
I like how you respond to an article addressing smugness in FP by starting your post by "The downside of being better than everyone else is people tend to assume you're pretentious".
I guess the OP doesn't even have to make his case when people like you serve such an unadulterated example of the very problem he was describing.