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Judging by the downvotes I’ve really rubbed a lot of people up the wrong way.

• dahart 7y ago
  Downvotes always feel pretty harsh, but it helped me a lot to realize that downvotes are usually impersonal. Think about downvotes as symmetric with upvotes; upvotes don’t need justification, and they are given for a wide variety of reasons. Same with downvotes. In any case, I find it best to start by assuming not that people are getting rubbed the wrong way, but that I actually wrote something incorrect and didn’t know it. The primary reason downvotes are given is for information that is either incorrect or irrelevant to the thread. Without passing judgement or being upset, it is safe to say your top comment is incorrect about this article, and thus irrelevant here. Also, note the guidelines ask to not complain about downvotes, which is why the immediate comment above is getting them. See “In comments” https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html I realize that justifying downvotes or continuing to talk on a thread that’s gone south doesn’t necessarily make you feel any better, but I honestly hope that helps. These things have helped me in the past.
  • qubex 7y ago
    Thank you for your kind words. I didn’t mean to come across as ‘complaing’ about downvotes, just as I didn’t mean to offend anybody with my comment (which admittedly was rather generic and probably not a specific response to the posted article, rather something I’d been meaning to get off my chest for a while). I just hope I didn’t come across as dismissive, because that wasn’t my intention.
    • username90 7y ago
      People weren't offended by your comment, it was just ignorant. 8 of these 20 lines are comments, so it is not code golf, just a very simple algorithm that anyone can read and understand. If you wish to not get down voted in the future you should probably try to read and understand things before commenting.
      • qubex 7y ago
        Thanks for your feedback, I think my comment history can stand as testament to the fact that broadly speaking I generally know what I’m talking about. As for your charge of ignorance, that’s your call to make, but you seem to be missing the point I was trying to make (and which I obviously articulated very poorly), namely that code length and complexity is an interaction between both the algorithm being encoded and the formalism into which it is being encoded (programming language). Anyway, I’ll leave it at that. Have a good day.
        • username90 7y ago
          Code length correlates with complexity if you don't go out of your way to game it, so it is still a valid way to say "this renderer is really simple and cool!".
          • shiftless 7y ago
            No it isn't. Are you counting the total lines of library code you're calling also? Total number of machine instructions generated? This attitude you have, that only the Y lines of code in your high level language floating way up in the clouds is the only thing that matters, is one of the key reasons why bloated, shit code is being constantly written and shoveled upon the masses. You don't know about the underlying complexity, and apparently don't care to know.
    • pjc50 7y ago
      > I just hope I didn’t come across as dismissive, You did, at the point where you said "misguided".
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