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Comment by andrepd | Hacker News Reader

I have 2 issues with this. First, you could say what you wanted to say in 1/3rd of the length if you weren't speaking in such a conversational manner and interspersing your discourse with irrelevant jokes and stuff like ""OOooooOOOooh soo exciting" right?". I don't read stuff on data structures to amuse myself. I want it to be as succint and to the point as possible and not waste my time kidding around. If I want to kid around I will do something else. But I guess some people prefer this, I suppose.

Second, I don't think the best place to go on lengthy explanations with figures included is in the comments of a source code file. Markdown is your friend.

  I have 2 issues with this [..] I don't read stuff on data 
  structures to amuse myself. I want it to be as succint and 
  to the point as possible and not waste my time kidding 
  around.

Someone should write a serious data structures book for you. Oh wait, they have, there are literally hundreds of them.

If you're attacking a topic with your full attention then you want maximum information as fast as possible.

If you're tired on a friday and want to learn something and have fun then information density doesn't matter anymore.

There is no shortage of Algorithms and Data Structures books. But different people prefer different styles of learning and interaction. This meets the needs for some people. I appreciated it and encourage James Kyle to continue his great effort.

I can't speak for everyone, but I read conversational prose a lot faster than dense technical writing. If I were to read enough of each style to absorb the same amount of information, I don't think it's safe to assume I would spend less time on the dense material just by virtue of its length.

lighten up :) the giant "Itsy Bitsy Data Structures" in itself was pretty light hearted.

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