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Re:When hiring developers, have the candidate read existing ... by dhzhzjsbevs on Saturday April 16, 2022 @03:38AM (#31050443)
People seem to have forgotten what code was like back in the bad old days.

Fuck that dogpile of bullshit.

You've never seen a 1200 line diy function to parse XML have you?

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Re:When hiring developers, have the candidate read existing ... by Nursie on Saturday April 16, 2022 @08:26AM (#31051749)
I apologise if I left you with that one when I left my first job in 2003!

:)

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Re:When hiring developers, have the candidate read existing ... by jenscow on Saturday April 16, 2022 @10:06AM (#31052427)
When I joined in 2006, someone had replaced it with 21 regular expressions.
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Re:When hiring developers, have the candidate read existing ... by tleilaxu on Saturday April 16, 2022 @01:08PM (#31054022)
It's alright, when I started there I turned those 21 regular expressions into a single enormous regular expression that could only be understood at the time of writing, and never understood by mere humans again.

shudders

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