You aren't in the position of the secretary and that's enough.
If I know advanced programming languages, what features they offer, what problems they are aimed to solve and most importantly what drawbacks these features have while interacting with each other and still prefer simpler languages since they force you to think in simpler terms and reduce the problem to it's very basic which usually makes your program much clearer to other people, how does that make me a bad programmer? And most importantly, what does this have to do with what I say?
Oh, I have read the response on my mobile and now it's gone, I wish it wasn't.
While I appreciate your effort to defend me I don't really need it. I don't mind having these kinds of responses at all. I may actually prefer it. It's the silent downvotes that gets to me, and HN holding me back with my "frequent" replies and whitening my words because God forbids someone could see an opinion they might disagree..
Of course this is no news to me. I'm quite used to having people with opposing views at my position. In fact, I don't think I have been with a person that I can easily relate to for a very long time. In my point of view, the main problem is that there are very deep social problems within our setting and most people doesn't even want to see it. They seem to prefer staying in their comfort zones, doing what they do so far as they have learned growing up while going along the flow. I think this is delusional and I have zero tolerance left for it.
I have come to realize HN community is full of these people. This is not to say there aren't any people I can agree with, it's just that it's extremely difficult to cultivate the conversation when you become a minority. In that regard, HN nowadays is quite an unhealthy formation. This was something I was aware for a long time. I didn't take any action so far because most of the time I'm here for only the links anyways. But links here are filtered by the upvotes/downvotes of this same community. I guess now it's time for me to move forward. I will close my account and hopefully never enter this site again.
Again thanks for your effort, but I think it's much better for people to express what they actually think than to censor them behind big man's words or else communication becomes impossible.
My guess is that his secretary still uses emails even if he's not. So basically he has just transfered his communication tasks to another person and somehow it is ok for him to enslave a person for jobs he doesn't want to do since he's a much more "important" human being. This is pure arrogance.
I think I will start to question what I learned from this guy. Maybe I give up on latex, not that there is a better alternative.
> Just as an experiment I cleaned up the runtime function mapaccess1_fast64 by hand in assembly and made it 29% smaller and with a speed improvement too small to measure.
Who forgets to break in switch statements? I mean yea, there was a time when I started programming I did this once or twice but not for a quite long time. Seems to me more like a request for sloppy programmers than anything else.
If I know advanced programming languages, what features they offer, what problems they are aimed to solve and most importantly what drawbacks these features have while interacting with each other and still prefer simpler languages since they force you to think in simpler terms and reduce the problem to it's very basic which usually makes your program much clearer to other people, how does that make me a bad programmer? And most importantly, what does this have to do with what I say?