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Re:You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a leg... by jlund-molfese on Monday February 17, 2025 @11:56AM (#43080920)
The moat is real. A shiny new project can always be cancelled, but withdrawing support for a suitably large legacy application that doesn't have a replacement is harder.
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Re:You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a leg... by doublerabbit on Monday February 17, 2025 @01:33PM (#43081909)
And if you want a boat for that moat recommend a modernisation project for the existing philosophy.
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