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Nursie on April 16, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: When hiring developers, have the candidate read ex...

I apologise if I left you with that one when I left my first job in 2003!

:)

jenscow on April 16, 2022 [–]

When I joined in 2006, someone had replaced it with 21 regular expressions.

tleilaxu on April 16, 2022 | [–]

It's alright, when I started there I turned those 21 regular expressions into a single enormous regular expression that could only be understood at the time of writing, and never understood by mere humans again.

shudders

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