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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.

It doesn't need to be black and white, and in that regard I don't think secretaries are essential.

Do you think you will see the name of his secretary on his book?

Name 3 secretaries that are as famous as Donald Knuth.

Same

To be specific I think they used a transpiler, probably Russ Cox's c2go (https://github.com/rsc/c2go).

> 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.

This doesn't sound very exciting.

Does this work on IE7?

It's very exciting to see inline plots in terminal but I doubt it will ever get mainstream popularity since it's not supported by most terminals.

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.

Also don't forget [Duff's device](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff's_device) for how it could actually be expressive.