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Amen brother, and at least you're rocking it right.
Jeremy Falcon
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I fully agree the situation is elephanted; but I need a lever to overcome "but VS 2010 still supports the version of .net our customer uses and we'd have to buy new re#er licenses if we upgrade to a new version". Assuming it does half of what it promises, the new feature added to the latest 2015 preview that will generate a complete set of working unit tests for an existing project combined with the number of minor regressions the customer demanded IA tail chasing created that we didn't discover until the pound on the keyboard test, will probably give me that lever. The ongoing maintenance budget is far too small to retroactively write a test suite for the entire legacy codebase manually; and I have every reason to suspect another round of IA tail chasing to produce a fresh stream of petty changes that will cause random edge case problems in strongly coupled code (again no money to redesign) that won't be found out until the acceptance test. (We do have a very exhaustive, and resultantly time-consuming and expensive one of them.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Oh, we'll if it's to prove somebody wrong, then rock on man! 
Jeremy Falcon
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Basically I need to sell it to my PM well enough to get his support in battling the bean counters. 
If I can get a win8.X VM there're a few things I'd also like to try; just to see what happens. The odds of my being asked to port a WinForm app to either Metro or WP8 are very slim this side of changing employers; but I'm still curious to see how much I'd need to hack at backend code to make legacy non-UI libraries compatible. Hello WinForms would be useless for this; and InsertRandomFossWinFormAppHere would suffer from my not understanding what the backend code does or how it does what it does. Spending an hour or two chasing compiler errors in a codebase I know well would be much more informative; but again that requires a level of co-operation with my current employer.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Sounds like you need a few tips from Simon Travaglia!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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I noticed that some of the features in VS2015 are from Resharper, i.e. remove unused variables or using statements.
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Couldn't you have put Windows 10 preview onto a VM with VS2015 and then not have had to worry about license costs?
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IF they didn't support (and hence didn't allow on their network) Win8 a year after release, and the person I talked to had to get back to me on if they've gotten around to supporting it since then; I'm certain that they'd ban a win10 VM from their network. And since I made the mistake of trying to things the right way I can't do it on my own and then claim ignorance if/when I get caught. 
The same goes 100x over for copying a work codebase onto a personally owned computer that I could otherwise use as a testbase.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Holy hell, it's starting. So much for home schooling or tutors, let's just pretend we're robots. Sheldon would be pleased.
Jeremy Falcon
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"Your plastic pal who's fun to be with" ? 
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Go stick your head in a pig.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Reminds me of the south park episode Awesome-O 
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Who's the fat chick he's hitting on, and does she know the kid has a'chronic gastrointestinal disorder" that won't let him out of the house?
Will Rogers never met me.
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"12-year-old Max, who suffers from a chronic gastrointestinal condition"
OK, who's gonna be first with the fart jokes?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Look like you're up!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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It essentially means "Make something impossible to get wrong" Idiot proof. Etc..
Poloek, Polk e yoke, Polk a yolk?
Paloek?
Anyone know what I am thinking of?
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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Never mind I found it
Poke-yoke[^]
Interesting word. Hard to achieve.
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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Never heard of it.
And given that it's Japanese and this is an English site, that doesn't surprise me too much...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I hadn't either till new job. Half Asian here. Interesting mix of cultures. But they said make something idiot proof you know poka yoke. I had a very perplexed look on my face.
Anyhoo, idiot proof = poka yoke. Or more exactly baka-yoke.
Actually probably just something new for managers to say now that I think about it.
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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rnbergren wrote: probably just something new for managers to say
Yes, please stop repeating before some management group picks up on it and I cannot escape the term. 
Just like:
1. not in my wheel-house
2. got no skin in the game.
3. etcetera and so forth
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Low hanging fruit (always worries my man parts)
Synergy - I really really hate this.
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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I never liked the term "low hanging fruit". I find that most non-engineers use these stupid words and phrases, the most.
Just tell me what you need to me to focus on, and bugger off with your low hanging fruit.
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