It's always the seagulls…

Quite so. Living in the middle of nowhere for the most part of my life, I've always had something reflective on or with me when out walking during the darker part of the year.

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Well said! Far too many a time have I seen what you describe too. Utterly dangerous and freaks me out completely.

That's the way to do things! ?

I mean, I'm the guy who lived with an iPhone 3G for 4 years and still rock an iPhone 3GS in 2016. I'm all about living with stuff until it's impossible to keep going.

I can definitely see that point and I agree. The libraries, frameworks, and platforms are not necessarily an evil in and of themselves, but rather how they are used. I have an awful hard time trusting any code I don't understand, mainly due to my own incompetency in the field.

I'm just anti-wastefulness in all things. Take for instance the perceived need to buy a new thing when an existing thing doesn't work. It's the reaction most people have nowadays, not to repair it or even attempt to find the cause. I just spent a few minutes cleaning the battery contacts in my thermometer/clock thingy. Works fine now again, it was just grubby. I'm betting most people would have relegated it to the junk bin already.

Apparently. And I'm not even a programmer, I just hack things and modify stuff to suit my needs when necessary. I just have a deep appreciation for what you can do with a computer if you actually take your time, think things through, and attempt to make stuff as lean and efficient as possible.

The JavaScript thingy just spooks me behind belief. If 17 lines could do what it did, what's to stop something even worse happening in the future? Who knows what's buried deep down in JavaScript dependency hell?

It's why we need to have multi-core CPUs running at multiple gigahertz with ludicrous amounts of RAM just to check out web pages these days. The art of actually programming is largely lost, and everybody just bolts together ever growing modules filled with stuff that's not necessary for the application at hand.

Need I say it annoys me and often times pissses me off to no end?

Yep, that's bigcompanyitis, right there. Things grind to a halt as committees need to have meetings and "decide" things.

Hm. Online testing as a part of the screening for a possible future employment. Never liked these things. Best wait until tomorrow to take care of that, lest I make a royal ass of myself.