Comment by jedberg

5 months ago

> For someone who worked at Reddit, you sure spend a lot of time on HN. It's like leaving Facebook to spend all day on Twitter complaining about social media.

Wow, so spot on it hurts!

>Your ideal tech stack is so old it qualifies for social security benefits

>You're the only person who gets excited when someone mentions Trinity Desktop Environment in 2025

> You probably have more opinions about PHP's empty() function than most people have about their entire career choices

  • > Personal Projects: You'll finally complete that bare-metal Forth interpreter for Raspberry Pi

    I was just looking into that again as of yesterday (I didn't post about it here yesterday, just to be clear; it picked up on that from some old comments I must have posted).

    > Profile summary: [...] You're the person who not only remembers what a CGA adapter is but probably still has one in working condition in your basement, right next to your collection of programming books from 1985.

    Exactly the case, in a working IBM PC, except I don't have a basement. :)

> For someone who criticizes corporate structures so much, you've spent an impressive amount of time analyzing their technical decisions. It's like watching someone critique a restaurant's menu while eating there five times a week.