Wasn't he in "Stop the Planet of the Apes, I Want to Get Off!" and "Man vs. Nature: The Road to Victory"?

This is a selfselfie. Or a selfie 2.0, if you prefer.

You sound like a grumpy old man.

To hipsters, all non-hipsters do.

The surface of the cylindrical part, however, is available.

You mean the bit that, in the old days, used to have textured rubber on so you could twist it to focus?

I thought light doesn't go through that bit.

Testing is what those square old mainframe daddies - the ones who witter on about aida and cowbell and 4tran - do.

It's not agile.

It didn't help that building a user-facing app that worked properly and had a decent UI was beyond them.

I had an E71, what a bastard.

Just take all the vowels out. Oh, hang on a minute...

Nice in theory.

In practice, try that with a company the size of Microsoft and they won't even bother telling you to go pound sand. They'll spin round, walk out and go to the outfit down the street - or on the other side of the world.

Dilbert cartoons are spot-on about a third of the time.

The rest are understatements.

If he tells you he'll have to kill you. Unless he's referring to birds.

Why are you assuming the person fixing it is the one who originally wrote it?

I don't really know why.

Users will say "But it works, we don't want to change waaagh scary" while simultaneously reporting 237 bugs all of which are OMG critical. Management will assume that it's cheaper, because existing stuff is already there so it's wasteful not to use it.

Now it's true that once a load of crufty business rules have built up with 17 levels of nested conditionals it can be risky to try and replicate it for fear of missing some obscure case that's bound to occur at an inconvenient time for a key customer. There's no documentation, of course. Or if there is it's the source code, six revisions behind, pasted into a word document with three screenshots taken as BMPs so the whole thing is 1.5G. This alone can make you say "sod it".

I can't find the correct phrase but maybe it's just a false analogy with physical things. Like reusing wood from an old shed to build a deck possibly is cheaper.

If Microsoft or Miele think I will own a "oven, vacuum cleaner and washing machine" which is connected to the internet they're delusional.

Own it? Are you from the 1980s or something?

It'll be more like "For one simple monthly fee..."

Well bully for you, snowflake.

Did you see the bit where he wrote " general rule"? These things vary widely across industries. Don't they teach you that at DeVry?

i live in an area that is being bombarded with thee ads daily

Verily, you are mistaken. I doth not advertise, forsooth.