To be fair, the odds are good that he would feel threatened for long.

It goes way eventually. Then you join senior senior management and you will have the airport dream and the moving to a new house dream.

Welcome to eternal nightmares.

I read "defect" as "defecate" at first, and was solemnly nodding my head in agreement, as that would be difficult to cover up.

You'd lose that bet at my workplace. The MMBs are in the middle of the open plan and are the top 1% coders: that is why they are there.

That's a really good analysis. I'd add one idea: you can have more than one work location! I have my open plan desk (a massive 24 sq ft) of space where I try to spend most of my day: my direct reports are all within 20 feet, and 64 people are within "stand up and talk" distance. I also have an office for the confidential/chat stuff: we walk to it if needed. Almost all business gets done in the open: it's more transparent, we talk tech in the open, we talk strategy in the open, every direct and second level report can at least listen to what is going on and figure out if they can help.

From Wikipedia: "The killer whale (Orcinus orca), also referred to as the orca whale or orca, and less commonly as the blackfish, is a toothed whale belonging to the oceanic dolphin family."

You should probably go back to whatever MMORPG you're playing now.

Just what are you trying to imply here, something or other about programmers, sheep, and conjugal concerns? You've got a sick mind my friend, just plain sick.

The expression "observable universe" doesn't work either.

While it would certainly be a better technical description, many people might have difficulty understanding the expression "islands of causality." The term "universe" is more widely understood by the general populace, and hence the expression "multiple universes," or "multiverse" if you will, may be more easily understood by a broader audience.

The belief that such interaction does not occur does not rule out the possibility that such interaction may be possible given certain circumstances.

Direct interaction with a system is not the exclusive means available for testing a system. Mathematics is especially useful in such scientific pursuits. You appear to confusing science with engineering.

You can store BTC offline quite easily. Copy a (hopefully encrypted) wallet to a couple of thumbdrives.

I always encourage people to look into other alternatives; some folks swear by C shell, although I don't have much practical use for anything for than bash, Perl, and the usual suite of BSD and GNU utilities when it comes to system automation and other tasks.

Quite true. Cygwin is great for what it is, but it's really no replacement for a *nix system if the objective is really to go all out with utilizing the full scope of tools available for many tasks. OS X gets much closer, but you'll still find yourself resorting to Homebrew or MacPorts at some point to get a reasonably complete environment.