Foundation is my life coach. HHGTTG is my bucket list.

It's really not clear at all what you mean by this.

CRISPR is the biology version of a chatbot: so tantalizingly close, yet so far away...

Linux is the most common operating system around (Android). BSD is right after (iOS). Windows is a distant third.

As for GNU/Linux (not Android), most people who use it, use it for real work. It's a programmer's OS.

CompTIA: another for the list of, "I can't believe that company is still around."

The thin phone is a lie, and the memes are rather hilarious.

They basically have a viral marketing campaign against their phone going on.

Apparently they've been building it since the 80s.

What's wrong with PDF as a format? Compared to HTML/CSS, it's positively elegant.

Management isn't dumb. They have incentives that are different than yours, and they chase their own incentives.

If you're a startup, you're breaking other people's things. You don't have any of your own stuff to break.

If you put an object into a list, queue, stack or hashtable, then you need to have a plan to remove it otherwise you have a memory leak.

I agree with your post, but for sales, it's often more important to be pretty than functional.

You should, it's a great language.

It doesn't take more effort (it does take more skill). Some people say it takes more time up front, and that may be true, but it pays off within days if not hours or even minutes (meaning total time required is less).

There are several reasons for this:
1) A major part of KISS is reducing redundancy. You are literally writing fewer lines of code.
2) The benefit of refactoring tends to begin earlier rather than later (ie, move your methods around, rename variables) within the first 500 lines of code.
3) Most of the time of software development is in testing. Well written code requires less testing.
etc

They can do long term planning, but their incentives are about doing things that improve their own career. (If you want people to change, their incentives need to change).