We don't have enough "influencers and dreamers" so we need to get them from somewhere else. Instead of working to generated increased interest in STEM and increase the number of skilled workers here, keep college tuition unaffordable to even further discourage our youth from pursuing tech careers.

That the biggest reason for staying on Windows is gone. I use Cygwin a lot. Lots of apps are still on windows, but the advances in VMs, , the cloud (online apps), etc. are going to gradually erase the reason Windows is necessary.

I am a former Lawrence resident and still live nearby. The company has had a couple of names in the past. Though some are hopeful, few take the announcement seriously It is hard to see how the company can get the financial backing to do a significant deployment. No need to feel envious.

Who would have thought that open source would have become as prevalent as it is now? For the same reasons, initially it did not seem to have a viable business case. Maybe this applies to other fields, perhaps not.

Wait, I'm sure all the human attorneys will find a reason to sue me before my AI defense attorney has passed the bar! Never mind.

AI attorneys! That would save people and businesses some money. I'll get right on it.

No consumer robotics. Roomba has been around for how long?? Why do I have to wash my windows, wash my laundry, and mow my grass?

• No advances in space travel in 50 years
• No major aviation advances
• Medicine has seen new inventions and innovations, but no cure for cancer.
• No flying cars
• Self-driving cars? Maybe, but I wonder when we will really see them. Commute to work is still a pain, probably worse than 20 years ago.
• Construction? Buildings and infrastructure. Incremental improvement, but I don't have an integrated home control system, and few do.
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    BTW, does anyone realize it is 2013?

If a co-worker can't present criticism in a constructive way, his road to success in a company is going to be long and steep.

Anyone who's written any serious code knows that compromises are made too often because of schedule or resource limitations. If you haven't done that you work for an imaginary company or you are lying. Code/software architecture can almost always be improved, but if there is not a business case (and often, even if there is), it will still not be improved.

The most valuable lesson this intern needs to learn is that you work with people and they are human. If you call my children ugly, then anything else you say is not going to be greeted warmly.

So it is hacked, poorly designed, and gets more fragile with each fix/change. Experience coders know: You may not have time to do it right, but you'll have time to do it again. I was surprised to see all the comments justifying crappy code.

Everyone knows that large corporations (all that I have worked for anyway, including IBM) have so much bureaucracy and obstacles that it raises costs. Probably true in India, too, but at least the wasted time doesn't cost as much. Sometimes, Dilbert is too true to be funny. Make that most times.

Does anyone know any "reasonable managers"? Reasonable managers could have avoided this in a number of ways.