• immutable@lemm.ee
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    6 days ago

    Having worked in software for decades now, this is a new engineer fetish. Oh that thing that’s working over there is using the wrong old technology. Better rewrite it at massive cost and risk and at the end we will hopefully have a system that performs the exact same function.

  • WolframViper
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    5 days ago

    It’s like Alexander the Great untying the Gordian knot by cutting it in half, but if the Gordian knot was actually important and cutting it in half could destroy Phrygia.

    (This might not even be a good analogy.)