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Re:Passwords for JetBlue accounts cannot contain a Q or a Z by gaius on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @03:18AM (#7742602)
Yeah, call me when you've got some code running in production for 60 years. Kids these days...
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Re:Passwords for JetBlue accounts cannot contain a Q or a Z by Fuxy on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @04:12AM (#7742707)
There's a reason we invented the term bit rot and this is probably one of the reason only in this case the code works perfectly fine it's just the entire use case that is outdated.

Instead of bringing the code into 2014 they would bring the world into the 1950's.

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Re:Passwords for JetBlue accounts cannot contain a Q or a Z by dreamfactory2 on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @10:58AM (#7744114)
i guess requirement rot is partly why we have agile
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