[AmitinLA]

I'm not a coder/hacker/tech person and largely ignorant of the issues that are being discussed in this post. But, I'm curious: is some of this similar to the (mostly light-hearted) tension I've seen in my personal life between physicists and engineers?

[pmjordan]

I don't think it's meant in that way. I think the author fears that young computer scientists are being coddled - instead of encouraging them to learn how to solve hard problems, they are rewarded for producing work with little substance but lots of polish.