Lots of respect for replying to a pretty snarky comment and admitting that you were wrong with good humour, if everyone was like this internet comments would be a whole lot better :)
Being wrong is fantastic, because it means I have learnt something. In fact I recently had to optimize a troublesome loop and got acceptable results (15 minutes down to 2 minutes thanks to branch mispredicts). Given what I saw today I can go back and see if splitting it up will result in any performance gain.
Agreed, well done for replying with good humor. I think HN is getting more and more of these types of exchanges, which is great.
Ah crap, did it come across as snarky? I'm not very good at conveying tone through comments, it was supposed to be mildly poking fun while making a minor nitpick.
It did, at least the way I read it. That might say more about me than it does about you though :)