Bonus points for realizing that your own code from three months ago is also "other peoples' code".

About 30-35 years ago I remember how people would be playing around in Basic on the weekend for entertainment. It really isn't that far-fetched, and messing around with the tape deck and volume control just to let things load made people realize that programming is a lot like Building in the Real World, where having a PZ screwdriver instead of the PH you really need sort-of-works but makes your life a hell of a lot harder.
I don't know what it's really like today, I've been doing it professionally for too long, but I still see quite a few newbie questions around Stackoverflow, Gamedev.net, people reading about the Raspberry Pi on the train, etc. etc. I think it's still going on.

Maybe I'm biased, because I've done some pretty crazy remodeling on a house, but building software is a LOT like building houses, lots of people just have really strange misconceptions about how well houses are(n't) built. Those same people are often in management, have to get an expensive second contractor in after the first one totally cocked up the extension to their 5-bedroom house because the I-beams he brought were a couple of inches shorter than spec but oh well, there is NO WAY that correlates to writing software (even though that's supposed to be their management expertise).

Programmers aren't special little snowflakes. People generally just do stupid things.

You most certainly can, for hot water purposes. It doesn't outright replace other power sources, but it does drive down energy usage significantly during times when there is enough sunlight.

That's Bleed by Meshuggah.

No, I'm simply applying logic - the statement you were refuting was "99.8% of climate scientists accept AGW". The paper you quoted has the following statement:
"Climate science experts who publish mostly on climate change, and climate scientists who publish mostly on other topics, were the two groups most likely to be convinced that humans have contributed to global warming, with 93% of each group indicating their concurrence.".

There clearly is dissent about AGW (in the details if not in the large), even within the science community, and the topic of "what to do about it" is even more thorny, but it remains that studies including the one you quoted repeatedly show that around 9 out of 10 people specialized in climate do think AGW is real.

Pah, they don't even have a word for entrepreneur.

As someone currently coping with anxiety issues and possibly mild to moderate depression while in the start-up phase of my own company: I have tended to need productivity like a drug. The feeling of having failed if a day is not productive enough (in my own eyes) can set me off on a bout of anxiety. It's a problem (and that's exactly why I used the phrase "like a drug") - I put myself at serious risk of not allowing downtime, or feeling really guilty about downtime which then triggers the anxiety again.
And society marks that productivity as success ("the most successful people need little sleep!", "it's about quality time, not quantity time!", there are so many examples). When your head isn't on right, it's hard to remember that you work to live, not live to work, and that life isn't just about world-changing achievements.

Man up is great advice, as long as you take it to mean "man up and have the courage to seek out help".

Monkeys do better than people in the stock market - I'm sure they did lots of market research beforehand though.

Sounds a bit like nostalgia isn't what it used to be. I started with Quake1, was part of a Quake2 clan for a while, and tried Quake3 but figured out my reflexes are worse than average so in twitch-multiplayer gaming I can't really hold a candle to those with better-than-average reflexes.
There are some really good games in a similar vein out there these days. I play a lot of Planetside 2 - FPS with lots of people, and the potential to co-operate smartly. It allows to use skills other than pure twitch-reflexes to outwit opponents, and it's just fun. It's still fun being faced with some of the nearly inhumanly good players that I met back in the Q2 days, and occasionally defeating them through better tactics than actual skill on my part. And obviously getting my arse handed to me when I don't quite manage to outwit them.
For pure twitch, Loadout seems to be pretty hefty. I'm unsurprisingly pretty crap at it, but it sure is fun to play.

Perhaps their command of the English language is a little less than their inflated multilingual egos make them think?
I consider myself quite bilingual - Dutch and English. I speak, think and dream in both of those languages quite easily. People here in the UK are sometimes surprised to learn that I'm not English and my first language is technically not English. I speak quite a bit of French, and have a reasonable grasp on understanding German, Portuguese, and by extension Spanish and Italian.
English is "easy" because it's almost impossible NOT to be exposed to an awful lot of English all the time. English language music, films (no dubbing in Belgium), English books, some English at school. Though I do believe as well that early exposure makes the biggest difference. When I was young there was a northern irish boy who'd come over for a month during the summer holidays (how are you doing these days, Niall?), and as kids you ignore the gaps and errors, and learn to use the language for what it was meant to do: communicate. As soon as you're communicating, imitation and learning will take over and fill in the gaps.
Knowing many languages is a bragging point. Being able to communicate with many people is a skill.