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Re:Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ev... by siruncledrew on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @12:35AM (#18447752)
Maybe in the year 2050 some future intern/employee will be adding to the Office code and wonder about the "Don't touch this" code relics of the past that someone from long ago left for future generations.
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Re:Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ev... by maxxxxx on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @12:40AM (#18447769)
I bet in 2050 people will puzzle over the microservice-cloud-javascript-Go-caching legacy systems that were developed in 2018 and be scared...
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Re:Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ev... by Endy on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @02:02AM (#18448108)
I mean, in 2018, I'm scared witless of all that. Anything cached in background to someone else's computer by something as unstable and slow as ECMAScript is just... a very bad idea. Keep programs local, and don't use Web coding / scripting for anything but the Web itself through a free-standing browser.
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