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For what it's worth, I am a bus driver these days; a real one, no metaphor involved. And I sufficently disliked and mistrusted Visual Basic that already in the mid nineties I instigated a complete ban on any vb**run.dll on all computers under my jurisdiction. Mainly a heuristic: VB applications tended overwhelmingly to not being worth the inevitable trouble.

I have proudly carried this curmudgery into the present century, these days applied to Java runtimes and Mono libs.

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Public transportation? I'm curious probably because I do consider switching careers. Bus driving - in my fantasy - provides some of the features I sort of desire (clear schedule, clear expectations) while lacking those I annoy (further educating outside of work, tendency to take problems home with you). What's your situation?

I recommend watching the film Paterson, with Adam Driver (a bus driver in the film)

As do I, for reasons that have nothing to do with this thread. It's just a great film.

I actually watched it already and in the theater at that. the last movie where adam driver doesn't come across a subtle prick.

Mind if I ask what you allow on your systems, today? Or the last time you worked in IT?

(Not clear if you moved away from it or not)

I think the implication was that his radical puritanism left him unemployable except as a literal bus driver.

Very droll, but incorrect.

Also, I believe the word you're looking for is purism. I'll certainly go along with that.

Also also, out of curiosity, where did you dredge up the "he"?

For what it's worth, the male form is generally used when gender is unknown. I suspect those linguistic defaults will start changing soon.

It's being replaced by they. Which I'm fine with btw.

> where did you dredge up the "he"?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28725669

Moved away by own choice. Never looked back.

Ok, fine.

But again, what did you "allow" on the systems you managed back in the day?

For your own good, let's hope the bus dispatcher of the lines you work for doesn't apply the same line of thinking.

I wish they did. We work with terrible software.

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