• Hanzito (unregistered)

    Wrt to mongo's _id: it can be an object, which is common when aggregating documents (e.g. sum hours per account per department). That, indeed, should not end up in a function called "sort".

  • (nodebb)

    The third mystery: how much time is the submitter allocating to finding a more sane job? (assuming there are some left not corrupted by AI slop & greed)

  • (nodebb) in reply to Ralf

    Sometimes it's nice to clean up messes. You don't have all the unknowns from the product owner like, "I don't know what I want, but I don't want that." You're taking something they were already mostly okay with and making it better.

    It's not as glamorous as a green field project, but it keeps a roof over your head.

  • Hmmmm (unregistered)

    This comes across as "clever" code that is somehow storing information where one may not necessarily expect to find it and leverage functionality in an unconventional way as well. That's generally what I sense when I wonder, "why the heck would they ever put that here?" Personally, I prefer code that comes across more like a children's book than an escape room...

  • (nodebb)

    The way these stories go I would no longer be surprised to learn that "sort" in this instance is meant to be a noun, not a verb.

  • 516052 (unregistered) in reply to RyanTG

    For every green field project there are hundreds of brown, dirty, wet, fly infested mine field projects. It's how you survive those that determines if, when and how you get to retire.

  • Tim (unregistered) in reply to 516052

    Every "brownfield" app is an app that's delivering business value in production. every greenfield project is an app that hasn't generated anything but costs so far

  • Kotarak (unregistered) in reply to Tim

    You can identify which is which, in that the implementation of the former has Excel in at least one critical pivotal point.

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