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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 admi

by 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".

by qubex 7y ago

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".