"It must work in IE6, we still use it in our offices."
While developing a JavaScript web app for a bank with 10 000+ employees. In 2014.

just no.

please, god, no.

Why don't you use STONES for your fucking databases?

@Python how did you manage that? :)

@heyheni Let's just say my username used to be JavaScript.

But for real, they paid good (the company, not me though) and I learned a lot from these, although stupid, obstacles.
It just felt so dumb to ninja though it because they refused to advance from the stone age.

See that's why I advocate upgrading to Windows 10. Because they aren't switching to Linux anyway. Atleast they use latest technology which will be easier for developer to deploy in most of the cases.

*clears throat* *checks pitch*

@vikaskr If only... At that time they still ran Windows XP.
I don't work as a consultant for them anymore but last I heard they're upgrading since XP support is expiring.

@SHA-16384 Miraculously they haven't had any scandal if that sort (yet).
But they got in real trouble when the prime interest rate became negative (in Sweden) a few years ago because their systems couldn't handle negative floats.

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