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Re:Chrome will Soon Let You Share Links to a Specific Word o... by bryanrasmussen on Friday February 15, 2019 @07:36AM (#19170342)
sure, it was state of the art back in the day, but state of the art over time depreciates to technical debt, and the ones that are left using what was once state of the art are now poorly written.
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Re:Chrome will Soon Let You Share Links to a Specific Word o... by coldtea on Friday February 15, 2019 @08:22AM (#19170668)
>and the ones that are left using what was once state of the art are now poorly written.

They could just be perfectly written (for their time), just legacy and not updated, is my distinction.

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Re:Chrome will Soon Let You Share Links to a Specific Word o... by bryanrasmussen on Friday February 15, 2019 @11:32AM (#19172194)
at some point the accretion of legacy and not fixing issues to match better understanding turns a perfectly written for its time application into a poorly written application for the present.
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Re:Chrome will Soon Let You Share Links to a Specific Word o... by threeseed on Friday February 15, 2019 @09:33AM (#19171177)
That doesn't give Google the right to break all those sites though.
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Re:Chrome will Soon Let You Share Links to a Specific Word o... by bryanrasmussen on Friday February 15, 2019 @11:33AM (#19172202)
right, I guess I should have indicated sarcasm on the I guess it's their fault part.
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