Agreed. I mean, here's the description of his first attempt at helping somebody with a computing problem: I looked at their code for a bit, saw that it was hop

Agreed. I mean, here's the description of his first attempt at helping somebody with a computing problem: I looked at their code for a bit, saw that it was hopelessly inefficient and hand-assembled a much faster version using a look-up table and a bit mask instead of a bunch of math to figure out where in memory to dump the data from the converter. I feel exactly the same way as parent and grandparent when I read stories like this.