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user-inactivated · 1759 days ago · link · · parent · post: 22 million Americans have filed for unemployment benefits in the last four weeks
... or that they would rewrite into something more maintainable and less generally creaky before it came up again. Which was overly optimistic, of course, rewriting software when the reasons for rewriting it are invisible to the people you have to convince to let you do it is tough. And the real reasons for rewriting things is always invisible to the people you have to convince.apparently once the world's data managers got through Y2K they figured why bother fucking with it again until we get to Y10k.
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