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If we’re trading war stories, one of my first software jobs was developing an electronic medical records system. We didn’t use VCS. At the end of the day/task,
by SenHeng 7mo ago
If we’re trading war stories, one of my first software jobs was developing an electronic medical records system. We didn’t use VCS. At the end of the day/task, you send the director the file you’ve changed with a txt file of which lines were changed.
The director made sure things compiled, then we would drive down to the hospitals and copy the dlls into each PC one by one. And because hospitals can’t shut down their computers willy nilly, we could only deploy on weekends or public holidays. Not weekday nights because the directors have to be home for the kids.
That was in 2014. They’ve worked that way since the late 90s and ‘no point changing what works’.