The expensive part comes from sticking a credit card in the spokes to make it sound like a real motorcycle.

I remember reading about this problem 30 years ago when I was a young programmer.

It seems that the tech industry is not the only place this is happening. Journalism, too, seems to be hiring only young and inexperienced people and paying the price.

What, line them up agaist the wall and shoot them? That's the classic final solution for those who disagree with the ascendent political thought.

Maybe you meant "Cue the deniers?"

Magnify. Zoom in on the reflection in his sunglasses. Enhance. There's the killer's face right there. Sergeant Takerdown and Sergeant Booker, go pick up our unsub and bring her in for questioning.

Please please make sure Jar Jar comes back. He was what made episodes I and II. I'm so looking forward to getting my picture taken with him, and maybe R2D2 in mouse ears, at Walt Disney World.

I hope they do up a Tattooine cantina as a family-style restaurant and some animatronic singing Ewoks having a hoe-down would be most excellent. Maybe they could transform that Epcot sphere into a deathstar for the lulz and have daily incinerations of the Canada pavilion.

It'll be the swagalicious product that will remake Episodes VII-IX what the originals were: a massive toy sales ad campaign. Nobody does that better than Disney. Nobody. Mees-a thinks-a so.

The basic assumption that programming is a young man's game is simply being pulled out of the author's ass wholesale and in one piece.

When you base assumption is invalid, the rest of your argument is moot.

Yes indeed, fully 60% of Americans are in the top 1%.

Yes, damn Canonical for not toeing the party line as set forth by the self-appointed central committee of the supreme soviet who decide what The Software should be. The whole gang of miscreants should be banished to the gulag until reeducated properly to the free market, that is to say the market fee of competitive ideas. Only then will the One True Way be realized. Until then, they are stealing bread from the mouths of our software children.

This is truly the year of the Linux desk -- on a phone.

I hear Monster Cable is coming out with a line of gold-plated bifocals that allow the discriminating visualphile to be able to take full adcantage of the quality offered by 400 to 600 DPI.

My eldest daughter came home from university for a visit with a new laptop that dual-booted Windows 8 and Ubuntu 13.10. They'll do what they need regardless of what I want.

As it should be.

That damn free market.

Obviously the only successful way to run the show is to have a central committee decide what everyone needs and wants, and an effective 5-year plan to meet those objectives.

"I wish there was a central config team that spanned the distro companies and concentrated on doing a mgmt interface ONCE AND FOR ALL."

Because after all, the free market works best when it is centrally planned and controlled.

Historically, apprentices would study at the master's feet. They would start by doing menial support tasks (like sweeping floors), moving to copying the master's work as journeymen, then finally after many years becoming themselves masters and actually creating works.

Up to 80% of the cost of software is maintenance. There are very few maintenance programmers. See, most kids want to start out at the master level and skip paying their dues. There's a bug or an enhancement? No problem! just rewrite the program from scratch, do it right this time! It's actually less expensive to rewrite the software than to maintain it, since you save that 80% of the cost. At least in the very very short run.

If programmers were required to do an apprenticeship, doing software maintenance for a couple of years before ever writing something new, they would be exposed to what went before and overall quality would go up. It just seems the know-it-all of youth has been taken too far in the industry and the price is being paid.

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