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Re: OT: Tech Nerd Thread
« Reply #336 on: July 25, 2025, 08:32:01 AM »
My daughter works for an outfit that does web redesigns.  She has some fun stories.  Companies pay them to update/refresh/fix their web sites, so she goes in and finds what MDT talks about, a mess of patches, different languages, the equivalent of software being updated using floppy discs.

They tell the company it would work best if they throw it all out and start clean, but the company won't pay more money (which isn't that much more).  So, they add more patches and clunkiness and work arounds.  The next time it is to be updated will be a larger mess.

I run into this using travel sites, my brokerage site, banking sites, etc.  They "refresh" something that was working pretty well, the new system actually is worse, maybe one item is a bit more clear, maybe not even that.  Schwab recently changed their private banking site and the old one was much better.  I use them for my checking account.

My daughter worked on one travel site I used pretty often, Hilton, and it didn't get worse, it's "prettier" now, I guess, the functionality at least is OK.

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Re: OT: Tech Nerd Thread
« Reply #337 on: July 25, 2025, 09:39:14 AM »
My daughter works for an outfit that does web redesigns.  She has some fun stories.  Companies pay them to update/refresh/fix their web sites, so she goes in and finds what MDT talks about, a mess of patches, different languages, the equivalent of software being updated using floppy discs.

They tell the company it would work best if they throw it all out and start clean, but the company won't pay more money (which isn't that much more).  So, they add more patches and clunkiness and work arounds.  The next time it is to be updated will be a larger mess.

Sounds like job security :)

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Re: OT: Tech Nerd Thread
« Reply #338 on: July 25, 2025, 09:40:47 AM »
The hilarious thing, to me, is she majored in French and English at THE OSU.  Then she "learned to code".

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Re: OT: Tech Nerd Thread
« Reply #339 on: July 25, 2025, 09:47:34 AM »
I coulda saved her a lot of time, and you a lot of money.  

The French have better food, the English have better television. 

That's really all there is to know about them.  

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Re: OT: Tech Nerd Thread
« Reply #340 on: July 25, 2025, 09:48:03 AM »
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Re: OT: Tech Nerd Thread
« Reply #341 on: July 25, 2025, 09:49:31 AM »
No Cal Berkley?  Stanford?  CalTech?  

Two are in walking distance of me.

 

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