I know exactly who did it. This is nowhere close to the most mortal of his sins.
Dude was an artist, a genuine genius at making kludges with zero budget. I admire what he did! He was fired three years before I was contracted and there's still stuff left over because a whole lot of what he did is super-fragile, breaks at the slightest change, and *works* - it's in production, causing zero problems as long as nobody BREATHES on it, today. And there's an entrenched culture of "this works, it has always worked, we do not want to CONSIDER anything better because better is change and CHANGE IS EVIL."
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Date: 2016-04-14 01:09 am (UTC)Dude was an artist, a genuine genius at making kludges with zero budget. I admire what he did! He was fired three years before I was contracted and there's still stuff left over because a whole lot of what he did is super-fragile, breaks at the slightest change, and *works* - it's in production, causing zero problems as long as nobody BREATHES on it, today. And there's an entrenched culture of "this works, it has always worked, we do not want to CONSIDER anything better because better is change and CHANGE IS EVIL."
Engineers, I tell you.