From your article: "I have been programming for a very long time. So long that it is incredibly boring to me."

So, to continue rhapsodizing to each other about our inabilities, you're apparently unable to read _your_ _own_ _writing_. You may be remembering this sentence instead, which you also wrote: "Programming as a profession is only moderately interesting."

No, I'm referring to what you quoted:

> Programming as a profession is only moderately interesting.

Direct quote you pulled from my book and then commented on. The quote you just referenced is just what I think as my personal opinion, not a statement of fact.

So yes, you can't read, especially when you quote the material.

Sigh. You appear to be in a selective parsing frenzy. Have fun with that.

You attempting to draw Big Important Distinctions between the bits of that particular passage that are 'personal opinion' and 'statement of fact' is at least entertaining, given that the whole piece is _all_ pure opinion.

Can you two just get a room?

I think this subthread is providing a fine counterexample to the idea that hiding comment scores magically improves the quality of discussion on HN.

I don't think even the wildest optimist would expect hiding comment scores to tame Zed Shaw.