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		lawn on Feb 17, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You're not a senior engineer until you've worked o... I thought it was pretty funny how we had this large project that was supposed to replace a legacy system (that was mostly a bad hack that got pushed to production). But when it was finished it failed to meet the basic requirements for the only customer that used the system.

lmm on Feb 18, 2025 [–]

Once you're senior enough those cases won't be funny any more, just sad.

lawn on Feb 18, 2025 | [–]

I have a very dark sense of humor sometimes.

But yes, it's sad.

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