My answer would be: that code should be seen not as a static thing, like the answer to a math problem, but as an evolving effort to figure out the right question to be the answer to; and that it should thus be written to be easy to change.

I thought he was joking, but after we took a short tour around the many laptop-toting geek gatherings and we realized bald and near-bald vi users outnumber bald and near-bald Emacs users about eight to one.

Since then, I have decided I would start using Emacs or, when that's not possible, at least try to use joe or nano for those same editing tasks.

Maybe the guy is going bald and wants to do something about it. Let he switch.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRQ

It's just that the coffers they're plundering are our national budget and future debt, rather than some combatant nation.

"Millennials also expect ... time for their family and personal interests."

Through my mind as I read those quotes:

"[Baby Boomers] want to be treated as superiors rather than colleagues."

"They would rescind an offer if they found something embarrassing on Facebook." (This has happened to people I know.)

"Baby boomers also expect ... others' lifestyles to be arranged for their purposes."

In any case, I'm surprised but not amazed that people are willing to say things like this. The problem is as follows: consider that a money economy is essentially a computer, designed to allocate resources to the most productive individuals and institutions; e.g. those who make the best decisions with them in the past. Of course, this process is filtered through large corporations...

Most people would agree that, unless there was a specific, well-defined goal of high potential value, working at immense sacrifice is unwise. Most higher-level corporate work is not toward a well-defined goal of value; in fact, most of it's so generic and abstract as to be pointless. But large corporations often value sacrifice over productivity, shifting the money and (much more importantly) power over to those who were most willing to sacrifice themselves. What does this mean? Well, becoming a "company man" in a large company, with all the personal sacrifices that entails, is actually often a bad decision. Thus, decision-making power is allocated to those who made bad decisions (about the relative value of their personal existence vs. corporate goals) in the past. In large big-box companies, power shifts to the defective rather than the productive. Hmm. That definitely wasn't supposed to happen.

This article is the voice of Baby Boomers who made bad decisions with their lives and, out of regret and reflective bitterness, have chosen to chide those who wish to explore other options, falling back on a "because I said so" attitude. People veer toward authoritarianism when under psychological stress, and that's exactly what we see in this article.

The problem is likely twofold:

1) Print is expensive. 2) Internet ads don't pay like print ads used to pay.

Okay, threefold:

3) Craigslist has killed the classifieds market dead.

Newspapers around the world are suffering from these things. It's just acutely sad that the paper of record is no better off than the rest....