1maginary

> The "replacing multiplication by additions", the replacing multiplication with a shift and the hoisting I mentioned above are all redundant optimisations for a programmer

There's also the fact that the code could get marginally more annoying to maintain, which is honestly more important nowadays even if you were actually saving a few cycles and the compiler wasn't doing the work for you.

I guess I took the title too literally. I would expect every competent programmer to know what you explained, and that is probably what the title was alluding to.

Thanks for clarifying.

This is apparently from 2012.

How outdated are some of these numbers?

According to this[1] source (linked in the gist comments), ping is down to 144ms from LA to Amsterdam.

[1]: https://wondernetwork.com/pings/

>I expect this entire discussion to be flagged off the front two pages of HN and into oblivion fairly quickly.

I guess you were right. As soon as I was done reading your comment I refreshed the page and noticed it got flagged. Not sure what that means exactly on HN but it's kinda worrying that you were able to predict it so easily

He clarifies right after that he got to those numbers because he used a lossless vs lossy encoder. Really should've kept reading