In my opinion management generally has insufficient technical grasp to make informed judgements on the quality of developers or the software they produce. Managers understand when a developer has said a task is done. Most managers have no clue how to determine whether that work was done well.

This is based on 30+ years experience as a software developer and manager. I stay current. Sadly, I find it rare that management also stays technically current. So, I no longer expect managerial decisions to be informed -- or fair.

Not always true. I've found (30+ years IT experience) that for fun projects I can sustain lots of extra hours (60+ weeks) for a long time - months. However, I have also learned that most employers don't reward such efforts. So I don't do that any more.

Too bad: I really like fun projects.

Extensible object oriented operating system running on extensible object oriented hardware run by extensible microcode. You could add new data types at runtime, private to your own process, with type checking enforced at the hardware level.

Produced by the first dot com. Go look it up.

An amazing operating system -- also some amazing software. I still miss Concordia.

Correct. Unlike a few other countries, the United States Government releases all of its own work to the public domain. This includes VistA CPRS, a digital medical record system originally developed for use in veterans' hospitals.

If you have the source code, you can port the old software to run on the new hardware. In the worst case, you could wait for five years of Moore density doublings and emulate the old software.

SLASHDOTTED!

North Korea has perfected a marijuana plant with 100 times the normal levels of THC.