Ask HN: Weirdest hack that you ever saw in production?

Re:Ask HN: Weirdest hack that you ever saw in production? by crispinb on Saturday March 24, 2018 @09:31PM (#16670117)

Webhost circa 2002. Lots of carrots from Microsoft for us to go big on ASP.NET hosting. Fat boss made a deal which involved us rewriting our customer interface in ASP.NET from the existing ColdFusion morass. His eyes popping at our estimates of how long this would take, he came up with a solution: rename our *.cfm files to .aspx, and map IIS to pass .aspx files to the CF server. Job done.

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Re:Ask HN: Weirdest hack that you ever saw in production? by danieltillett on Saturday March 24, 2018 @10:30PM (#16670326)

Genius. Now if we could convince the kids of today this is solution to rewriting everything using the latest fad framework.

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Re:Ask HN: Weirdest hack that you ever saw in production? by drchiu on Sunday March 25, 2018 @08:47AM (#16671949)

Nice and efficient. There’s an elegance to this solution that’s hard to grasp unless you’ve been in a similar situation before.

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Re:Ask HN: Weirdest hack that you ever saw in production? by themarlzy on Saturday March 31, 2018 @04:46PM (#16725102)

I love the novelty and frivolity

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