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My first thought when reading this description was that step one is to make a local copy, get a development environment setup where you can toy around, see how
by lucb1e 5y ago
My first thought when reading this description was that step one is to make a local copy, get a development environment setup where you can toy around, see how things fit together. The 'stupid'er the setup (like using plain old files instead of a database), the easier that actually gets (apt install apache2 php; rsync da:files /var/www). Wouldn't that have helped solve this particularly important but untouchable file?
- thedanbob 5y agoIf I remember correctly, the file was processing global state from other parts of the system, and it was such a Byzantine bit of code that I had almost no hope of understanding what it was actually doing without being able to observe state in the production system as it was being used. Plus at the time I wasn’t a particularly competent programmer myself (this was my first programming job). In the end I figured it wasn’t worth risking breaking it when its replacement was on the way.