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Re:Employees: looking for “the great boss who cares about th... by nitrogen on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @02:01PM (#11169213)
1: it can actually be a lot of fun if you look at it as a sort of digital archeology. You are exploring an ancient world! I enjoy it.

2: write reams of documentation for every function and module and service you decode, check them off on a checklist, and point out how you generated x pages of new docs and analyzed y% of a previously mysterious codebase. Then when you refactor, you get to point out how many thousands of lines of obsolete PL/SQL code you replaced with 10 lines of Ruby.

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