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Re:I wrote an LLVM-powered trace-based JIT for Brainfuck by jrockway on Monday August 30, 2010 @09:00AM (#1646064)
find it difficult to think there isn't something else he could have chosen

Why do you care? How does this affect you in any way?

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Re:I wrote an LLVM-powered trace-based JIT for Brainfuck by davidw on Monday August 30, 2010 @09:04AM (#1646076)
It's obviously not my place to say what other people do with their time. It just seems like wasted effort to me; that's all.

I guess arguing against the groupthink (replete with reddit style mob downvoting) is an even bigger waste of time, though.

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Re:I wrote an LLVM-powered trace-based JIT for Brainfuck by jrockway on Monday August 30, 2010 @09:56AM (#1646179)
Seems like you have 18,000 more upvotes than downvotes, so maybe you are just in a bad mood today. Deep breath and smile!
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Re:I wrote an LLVM-powered trace-based JIT for Brainfuck by davidw on Monday August 30, 2010 @10:19AM (#1646227)
I don't give a shit about karma, I do intensely dislike the idea of "piling on" downvotes, for myself or others, as I have expressed many times in the past with regards to others' postings.

It's a great way of discouraging the expression of dissenting ideas. You're correct that I have the 'reserves' to express any number of actual crockpot ideas, but not everyone does.

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