I think this was a good piece of writing and states quite well the reasons why I don't like technical debt as a term. Especially in situations where people say it's necessary.

In my opinion the root cause is poor management and poor management is not necessary.

I 98% agree. Only thing I'm not sure about is if third copy/paste is always a bad thing. There are things like configuration and templates where independency is more important than DRY. Sometimes you do those through code.

This whole writing seems to assume that productivity is a feature of an individual and not a feature of a team. That's a wrong assumption. The fairest way to pay is same salary for the whole team.

This writing is also PR for some individual company.

And this writing is three years old, written before the current economic slump. Nowadays the market is not so busy, at least not where I live in.

Damn! Last winter I heard somewhere Screen was died and I thought I should finally learn tmux. It seems Screen is still alive, after all! Great news.

Using Emacs may have a slow start but in few years it will subsume you so that you do more and more things in Emacs. Beware!

I fire up Gedit from time to time as well. It's a great small editor.

BTW if someone knows a moderator from this community, I'd like to get my join request accepted so that I can post something here.

I must probably try this!

What do you will need new color states in GTK for? I'm not sure but I hope I will get better looking fonts into my editor because of this change. But not sure and this is only guessing

How much JS differs from ActionScript? I have an assumption they are pretty similar

Is it a synth of some sorts? Where Actionscript even runs nowadays?

I always recommend Ubuntu for beginners. It has the largest userbase and broadest support from all kinds of software vendors (including commercial software)

Ubuntu with default desktop will probably work straight out of the box with your computer if any distro will. Then you can easily try it, learn more and see if you like it.

You can also get commercial support for Ubuntu: maybe even your local computer shop can help you with any problems you run into (like printer installs)

Later on, you may switch to something else if Ubuntu does not feel the best distro.