throwawaysbdi

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by throwawaysbdi 10y ago
Webforms is the newest thing. Most is far older
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by throwawaysbdi 10y ago
It's literally so ancient that we bought the remains of the company that designed the language when they went under
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by throwawaysbdi 10y ago
It was a lie of omission but I'm not sure if that makes it any better. I was hired to work on a new project but it wasn't disclosed that the project hadn't been started yet and has already been delayed for years
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by throwawaysbdi 10y ago
I have a theory that the company is for sale and the owners don't want their ancient stack to show up on Google search in job descriptions. If it's not that you guess is as good as mine :)
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by throwawaysbdi 10y ago
I wasn't hired to work with old junk. if I would have known I never would have taken the job. I also don't have enough money to walk away or risk standing up to management. The code isn't just old, it's very badly writte
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by throwawaysbdi 10y ago
It's bad in a lot of specific ways but I'm trying not to out myself since it's a fairly small company. The overarching problem is trying to reinvent the wheel because the management thinks we can do things better than the lan
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by throwawaysbdi 10y ago
Yes. The codebase is best described as a giant pile of hacks. It's the culture more than the tech that causes this to happen. Every time I offer to refactor I'm told to fix it the fastest way and that's how we've been do
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by throwawaysbdi 10y ago
Some webforms but the majority is in a much more ancient and niche language I won't name because it's too specific to this company.
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by throwawaysbdi 10y ago
Damn that's relevant
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by throwawaysbdi 10y ago
My expenses are too high to walk away and there's nothing I can do about it for a couple years. Otherwise I would have walked out several times over.
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by throwawaysbdi 10y ago
Relo isn't a problem and I definitely want to stay in this town. I can't really mark it as time off because I already did that a while back, I don't want to end up with a lot of gaps :) I was thinking I could just apply to ot
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by throwawaysbdi 10y ago
It's too small a company to maintain my anonymity. Small enough that it's unlikely to burn any fellow HN readers if that makes it any better
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by throwawaysbdi 10y ago
Some of it is so obsolete and unique it would probably identify the company :) . The rest is slightly less old, MS webforms. The webforms stuff isn't much better because the code quality is the worst I've ever seen. Adding feature
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by throwawaysbdi 10y ago
I should clarify that's over 20 deep of our code , not counting all the framework stuff.
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by throwawaysbdi 10y ago
It's difficult to be proud of anything I'm doing :). Whenever I propose a design for something, I'm told to do it the fastest way which is usually a bad hack. I'm amazed the code works at all. The stack traces are more t
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Ask HN: I got duped into working on legacy code, should I leave?
62 points by throwawaysbdi 10y ago|119 comments
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by throwawaysbdi 10y ago
Ahhh this is the moment I've been waiting for. Hype has officially hit stratospheric proportions. Time to add the words "deep" or "learn" to your startup name and reap in the dough!
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by throwawaysbdi 10y ago
Why replace him? He's publicly unpopular but the company is worth more than ever, and the investors care most about money. Why get rid of him when they're plenty of ways to spin the narrative. Like making unrelated but scandalous
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by throwawaysbdi 10y ago
Along the same lines, probably the easiest way to get quality in almost every type of product is to buy the commercial version. The people using these products are very familiar with them, so nobody sells garbage. Businesses are also genera
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by throwawaysbdi 10y ago
That's the crux backers are lying to themselves about. The game doesn't exist and has already made more money than most blockbusters. Why waste profit developing it when you've already had your payday? The best thing to do fr
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by throwawaysbdi 10y ago
Wow. Okay that guys is nuts. Still, star citizen is a train wreck. Wasn't the big thing last year to "rewrite all the net code". They're just rearranging the deck chairs over and over waiting for the company to go under
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by throwawaysbdi 10y ago
Sure, if you think the idea is worth it
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by throwawaysbdi 10y ago
It's not possible unless you have enough money to pay a good developer salary. I've been a part of one once, and the only reason I dealt with the clueless founders was because they paid me better than a regular coding job. So yea
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by throwawaysbdi 10y ago
The rose tinting of HTML should also be taken into account. Java was maybe 10x slower in those days, but more importantly internet was 100x slower and computers 500x slower. Java ran pretty damn good for what it pulled off back then. It wou
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by throwawaysbdi 10y ago
I tried to install but I'm getting an error message: "undefined" is "undefined" on line 27361 in elipse.min.js . I'll send you the stacktrace because it's bigger than the message limit here. I see that you
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by throwawaysbdi 10y ago
Yes! Go has a really small runtime I think a lot of us can't wait till Go is usable in browser. Every developer I know hates JavaScript. I think the only ones that like it are honestly people that haven't used much else. Literall
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by throwawaysbdi 10y ago
Upvoted for having actual information
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by throwawaysbdi 10y ago
:) if you'll notice maybe half of those are other languages adapted to the JVM to make them more usable, which should say something is redeeming about the JVM at least.
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by throwawaysbdi 10y ago
"micro" if you will
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by throwawaysbdi 10y ago
I prefer ReWheel. It's like RollCircle but they've reduced everything to a single wheel so it's easier to reason about. Some people still think you shouldn't have a single global wheel but it's definitely where thin

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