"There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again."

They're really awesome for generating bugs, it's called coding for job security.

Yes... I'm kidding. (Or am I.... )

First reaction: Bullshit.

But I'll try not to generalize too much, and I do agree with many of your points. I will accept that many self-taught programmers are superior to the mindless drones schools are now turning out (including some I graduated with). However I suspect that if you compare the best of each you will find there's lots of things that schools do teach that you might have missed out on. (And probably vice versa...)

As you point out, the superior developers are superior because they are:

1) Smart
2) Motivated

If you take a smart and motivated person and then put them through a halfway decent school system you get something even better than the smart and motivated self-taught types.

Therefore, my counter statement would be:

Smart and motivated self-taught developers may be superior to unmotivated cookie cutter drones.

Looks like the intention is to make more efficient supercomputers.

While only tangentially referenced in that article, Knights Landing may be orders of magnitude more power efficient than current supercomputer cores.

However, for servers, including hypervisors, it would be very interesting. There are lots of client/server products that scale better with more cores.

Eclipse moved from CVS to git, but is still hosted by eclipse.org

No, we just live in a civilized country.

Well
    A) Forced, are you forced to work?
    B) She was 12, I was talking about child labor.

Sometime around the age of 12 one of my children commented "I wish we were rich."

I stopped the car and turned around, "We are rich." I said

"Both your mother and I both earn enough money to have a house and a car. You are always clothed and fed, you never go to bed hungry and cold. You get to travel, play sports and get a good education. Nobody forces you to work, ever. You don't have to fetch water just to survive, morning noon and night"

"Remember that there are tens of millions of people around the world who have none of these things, and you have them all."

I turned around and continued driving.

Years later my daughter reminded me of the conversation and how it had triggered a kind of awakening.

Belling the cat

No disagreements, but would you honestly recommend Arch to lessor mortals?

I've been using Linux since 0.9 and even I can't be bothered with it.

I'm pretty sure that was his whole point... though perhaps point is stretching it bit. How about, yes, that's what he's whining about.

Was any part of that incorrect or misleading?

Package management is possibly a Debian based distributions greatest strength, however if you want to be on the bleeding edge it does handcuff you.

Similarly, try getting up to date versions of boost and ogre actually installed and be sure to report back so we can drink your tears.

Yes... I know, [citation needed]

*cough* Cambodia *cough*

It's called "smart dust", and the idea is anything but new.