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Re:Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have been wo... by datadrivenangel on Friday April 05, 2024 @06:29PM (#39948058)
"We hate everything about our system, get us a new one"

"We want the new system to work exactly like our old one"

It's probably not worth the money...

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Re:Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have been wo... by drekipus on Friday April 05, 2024 @06:48PM (#39948207)
I haven't pieced those together but of course they go hand in hand.

I had one guy want me to recreate Microsoft word, worts and all, because his current Word wasn't doing it for him

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Re:Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have been wo... by nilamo on Saturday April 06, 2024 @11:16AM (#39953014)
Or refusing to use anything except Office 2003 because newer versions are too different...
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