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New comment by choppsv1 in "I resigned from Anthropic today"

choppsv1 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 04:59:25 +0000

Like a magic Monkeys Paw, perhaps.

New comment by choppsv1 in "Someone used my open source project to phish people"

choppsv1 — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:30:52 +0000

shrug it's getting really easy to spot the AI writing style. I find myself scanning for the obvious `tics' and almost always stop reading when I see them. It's too hard to focus on the content at that point for me.

New comment by choppsv1 in "Dark Mode vs. Light Mode: Which Is Better?"

choppsv1 — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 08:58:26 +0000

Green or amber text on black predates graphical interfaces.

New comment by choppsv1 in "Buzz: A lightweight statically typed scripting language"

choppsv1 — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 14:20:21 +0000

Re: comment char: I couldn't agree more, went in excited by static typed, and was immediately turned off by this seemingly arbitrary divergence. I kept looking for other uses of, for example, `#` in the language that might explain this quirky comment char, but got to the end of the guide w/o finding any. Maybe the author will reconsider :)

New comment by choppsv1 in "Fred Fish"

choppsv1 — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 00:00:34 +0000

I remember how proud I was as a new, young programmer, to have something I created get added to the fish disks (ProjMot disk #453) :)

New comment by choppsv1 in "Build full “product skills” and you'll probably be fine"

choppsv1 — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 08:33:09 +0000

I love to code, as much as I loved math in college, but coding paid better and I'm pretty good at it. Those were my choices though b/c I want to do something I love. Sure, I keep my eye on the "Delivered Value" by making sure I engineer solutions to real problems, but I've never wanted to move out of coding and into managing engineers to build stuff. I want to code. It seems to me that the advice given here would be more applicable to someone who only coded long enough to move into engineering management -- anyway something about it bugs me and I don't think I'd follow it exclusively even if I was starting today.

New comment by choppsv1 in "My dad's resume and skills from 1980"

choppsv1 — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 16:18:38 +0000

Python is easier to use if you come from almost any background, programming or not. I believe this is primarily b/c there isn't a lot of "special syntax" in Python, it's all very explicit and common. The same is not true with Ruby.

New comment by choppsv1 in "Emacs true color (24-bit) in terminal support"

choppsv1 — Sat, 06 Sep 2014 23:13:15 +0000

I fixed the web server to deal with the load, so it's better than the cache probably (the diff link is better as well).