Coding On The Event Horizon

I take this to mean that there is a rapidly approaching event horizon, and as you approach, the value (time) invested in a particular piece of code diminishes. Thus the value put in is worth less. Think of it as a non interest bearing account that is denominated in a currency that is inflating. A project that includes frequent exchanges of code accumulates attention that expoentially reverses the stagnation of idle code... Just a thought.
Found on the Peter Provost's Geek Noise

In my usual tactless way I said "Code you keep on your machine is worthless!" Silence... Everyone looked at one another for a while and finally someone said "I don't get it... why is it worthless?"

Real Men don't make backups. They upload it via ftp and let the world mirror it. -- Linus Torvalds