Saying older programmers can't perform as well as younger ones is just HR-speak for "older programmers don't put in free overtime." You can't change HR.

Thanks Audi for encouraging drivers to press on the accelerator at the end of the countdown regardless of what is happening in front of them. I mean, what could go worng?

Any bad code I write was because of bad management: lack of specifications, deadlines, lack of QA, etc. ;)

OO is closures on steroids; why continue to use them?

What is a closure? It is a way of preserving data which can be accessed later via a single function. What is an object? It is a way of preserving data which can be accessed later via many methods. OO is augmented closures.

All software patents are illegal. Patent law states that algorithms cannot be patented. Why don't the courts have to obey the law?

I haven't use a printer in years. Haven't missed it. It's time to embrace the paperless office.

Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me.

This is not the first time Microsoft declared itself as open source. If they were dedicated to open source back then, they wouldn't be in a position to announce they open source; everyone would already know it. Put your money where your mouth is, Microsoft. Until they open-source Windows, Office, and Visual Studio, they are lying. And lairs are not to be trusted.

You have just stated the biggest issue with Wikipedia: it is not self-correcting. If Wikipedia was started 2000 years ago, it would still state that the Earth was the centre of the universe because all experts agreed with it. New ideas like a solar system would be labelled vandalism.

The most reliable database ever created is our scientific knowledge. And it only got that way because of some basic rules: 1. Anyone can do science. 2. Anyone can debate science. 3. All evidence must be repeatable and repeatedly verified. Any database that does not follow scientific methodology will always be susceptible to containing bad data.

"They saw these options as "meddling with nature," even though we've been using technology to enhance our lives for thousands of years." Not only is this insulting, it's a straw man argument. The objection isn't to technology. The objection is to technology controlled by by secrecy in backroom deals. Did you know your cellphone can track you everywhere you go even after you turned it off? Did you know your cellphone can record everything you say even after you turned it off? Secretly-controlled technology is tyranny.

Good. Maybe high-power motor controllers will become cheaper.

From the stars we came,
to the stars we return,
from now until the end of time,
we therefore commit this body to the deep.

Windows? Do they still make that?

There may less dark matter in our region of the galaxy because of the Local Bubble. When the supernova push all the dust out of our region, it could have dragged, via gravity, some of the dark matter with it.

So? That's the whole point. American exceptionalism is thinking that Americans can break laws in other countries and get away with it because they're special. That's why the world hates Americans. They have double standards. They can break laws in other countries but if others come to America, woe betides them is they break the law.