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Webforms is the newest thing. Most is far older

It's literally so ancient that we bought the remains of the company that designed the language when they went under

It was a lie of omission but I'm not sure if that makes it any better. I was hired to work on a new project but it wasn't disclosed that the project hadn't been started yet and has…

I have a theory that the company is for sale and the owners don't want their ancient stack to show up on Google search in job descriptions. If it's not that you guess is as good as…

I wasn't hired to work with old junk. if I would have known I never would have taken the job. I also don't have enough money to walk away or risk standing up to management. The cod…

It's bad in a lot of specific ways but I'm trying not to out myself since it's a fairly small company. The overarching problem is trying to reinvent the wheel because the managemen…

Yes. The codebase is best described as a giant pile of hacks. It's the culture more than the tech that causes this to happen. Every time I offer to refactor I'm told to fix it the …

Some webforms but the majority is in a much more ancient and niche language I won't name because it's too specific to this company.

Damn that's relevant

My expenses are too high to walk away and there's nothing I can do about it for a couple years. Otherwise I would have walked out several times over.

Relo isn't a problem and I definitely want to stay in this town. I can't really mark it as time off because I already did that a while back, I don't want to end up with a lot of ga…

It's too small a company to maintain my anonymity. Small enough that it's unlikely to burn any fellow HN readers if that makes it any better

Some of it is so obsolete and unique it would probably identify the company :) . The rest is slightly less old, MS webforms. The webforms stuff isn't much better because the code q…

I should clarify that's over 20 deep of our code , not counting all the framework stuff.

It's difficult to be proud of anything I'm doing :). Whenever I propose a design for something, I'm told to do it the fastest way which is usually a bad hack. I'm amazed the code w…

I recently moved cross country to work on what was supposed to be a fairly nice, new stack. I love my new city but the job is killing me. Its legacy code dating back more than 20 y…

Ahhh this is the moment I've been waiting for. Hype has officially hit stratospheric proportions. Time to add the words "deep" or "learn" to your startup name and reap in the dough…

Why replace him? He's publicly unpopular but the company is worth more than ever, and the investors care most about money. Why get rid of him when they're plenty of ways to spin th…

Along the same lines, probably the easiest way to get quality in almost every type of product is to buy the commercial version. The people using these products are very familiar wi…

That's the crux backers are lying to themselves about. The game doesn't exist and has already made more money than most blockbusters. Why waste profit developing it when you've alr…

Wow. Okay that guys is nuts. Still, star citizen is a train wreck. Wasn't the big thing last year to "rewrite all the net code". They're just rearranging the deck chairs over and o…

Sure, if you think the idea is worth it

It's not possible unless you have enough money to pay a good developer salary. I've been a part of one once, and the only reason I dealt with the clueless founders was because they…

The rose tinting of HTML should also be taken into account. Java was maybe 10x slower in those days, but more importantly internet was 100x slower and computers 500x slower. Java r…