Kill your television.

None. and having your oven or stove turned on while you are not at home is downright dangerous.

I expect a wave of neo-Luddism to occur (at least as far as the internet is concerned) in response to these stupid idea that my alarm clock needs to be hooked into the internet. It may make adjusting clocks for daylight savings automatic (although this could be implemented with a ROM chip that included a future calendar although that could become obsolete if they change the dates yet again for daylight savings and is anyway not geared to individual jurisdictions that have unique or absent daylight savings calculations) but to be perfectly honest most folks on the heat when I am cold and turn it off when it gets warm enough.

Who wants a car that can be tracked by the insurance companies and authorities and also will have a heads up display with no spare parts and ability to be fixed in ten years time,

This brave new world of universal connectivity is going to be rejected by consumers who just want basic functionality at a cheap price.

Let's see, he tried, made an error, and then corrected it. Looks like you are the actual retard.

How would you know? There has never been a programmer in all of history that never had a program fail to compile or never had a logic error in one of his modules.

That makes you a liar and a moron.

Everyone uses i,j,k,and l as pinko-liberal loop counters!

I'll agree to 100 as long as that includes DBA's, sysadmins, code librarians, QA testers, and project managers in addition to the actual system architects and/or programmers.

Cuz' we buy lots of BMW's.

Since when did liberals do anything else except tear down Western Civilization?

If you are going to use indentation you shouldn't need all those parentheses.

"- Writing a line of code is done as a last resort when all attempts to avoid it have failed."

Yes, God forbid that we automate some clerk's job out of existence.

"If you create a programming language through which to solve the needs of your scenario, then the article simply makes no sense at all any more."

Which you can do most easily in LISP.

Mod this up.

"Typically no two software engineers agree on a solution."

Smart ones do in design sessions.

HTML5, XML and javascript don't break out of the client-server paradigm, they implement it, one hopes in a RESTful manner.

Same with SQL. It was originally supposed to be a query language for end users. Everyone had learned about Venn diagrams in school, right?