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The Choice: Embrace the Possible by Dr. Edith Eva Eger

I learnt about The Choice from Ryan Holiday’s newsletter, like about so many other books. As I’ve been always interested in history and in psychology, I decided that this book can completely jump m...

The big STL Algorithms tutorial: *numeric* scans

In this next part of the big STL algorithm tutorial, we are going to talk about the 4 algorithms in the <numeric> header that we haven’t discussed yet: exclusive_scan inclusive_scan ...

Top 3 reasons to let people change teams within your organization

A few weeks ago, I posted my thoughts on what are good reasons to change teams. In this article, I’m going to talk about why you as a manager should encourage your employees to move around. And l...

Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig

During the last couple of years, I started to attend and present at more and more C++ conferences. Inevitably, I ended up listening to Phil Nash several times and he almost always spoke about somet...

The big STL Algorithms tutorial: more numeric algorithms

It’s high time to continue the big STL algorithm tutorial, and in this next part we are going to talk about 4 operations that are part of the <numeric> header: iota inner_product pa...

2021: I feel I got everything I wanted and the next year will be even better

It’s the end of the year so it’s time to draw a balance between what happened and how I progressed at work and in life in general. I deliberately speak about progress, because I think it’s more i...

The best 8 books I read in 2021

Like each December, I share with you the best books I read this year. They represent a considerable chunk of my book reviews, but I don’t post reviews in all the books I read. And in any case, it’s...

What is the most vexing parse?

The most vexing parse is a specific form of syntactic ambiguity resolution in the C++ programming language. The term was used by Scott Meyers in Effective STL. It is formally defined in section 8.2...

Trip Report: CPPP 2021

December started with another fascinating C++ conference which was probably the last one for the year: CPPP 2021. The third P in the name represents the French touch in this conference, it stands ...

How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business by Douglas W. Hubbard

We had some difficult times with my manager to set up my goals for this year. If you spent more than half a year in any “serious” corporation, probably you have already heard about what goals shoul...