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So I have been assigned a new role - modernize some old Java EE applications. 
I need a new job now
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What does "modernize" really mean these days? A new coat of paint perhaps? 
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Slacker007 wrote: What does "modernize" really mean these days? A new coat of paint perhaps?
Ofcourse that - CSS (read: cuss) changes. Replacing old JS with new ones. And update struts libraries due to this scary CVE[^]
Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.
Carl von Clausewitz
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Modernization: Making not so technical people boast about version of software product they are using. There can still be COBOL under those fancy wrappers. But not many open those wrappers.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Slacker007 wrote: What does "modernize" really mean these days?
Change all colours to shades of light pastel blue, and take out as much graphical detail as you can.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Don't forget to require a constant cloud connection to make sure you're licensed to use the software. Yes even especially if the software itself doesn't connect to the outside world.
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Oh, don't say that! My blood pressure can't take it!
Sick, sick, sick, sick SICK! of pointless, irritating "reminders" from win server and fruggin-awful-antivirus-server that I have to connect uber-high-security, air-gapped physical servers to the Internet, because they have to upload information that they are absolutely not entitled to and are never going to get!
It used to be that if someone sold you something, you were treated with respect, because you were the customer, and they were grateful for your patronage.
But if you buy software, these days, you have to treat the vendor like he's your lord and master.
It's got to stop. It's got to %#@&ing stop!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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"modernize" in broad or narrow sense ? 
Perhaps modernizing in a broad sense would be a time saver ?
Cheers
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I'll put "repainting the app to look modern" in the narrow sense.
Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.
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This is arriving to our tv this week.
The big question. Is it worth watching, or should I just pass on it?
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It's about an alternative history story in that the Nazi win in Britain and the SS are in charge.
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So ... nobody watched "Man in the High Castle" and thought "we can do that"?
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Haven't heard of that one and had to look it up. Likewise haven't heard of SS GB until they start advertising it, so was curious if anyone had an opinion.
I know I know, everyone has one 
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"High Castle" was based on a Philip K Dick book of the same name, and that was damn good. So the TV series is probably rubbish ... I don't know, Herself won't watch anything to do with WWII and I don't watch the idiot box on my own. 
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Sounds like you don't know that SS GB was also based on a book. Len Deighton wrote it back in 78.
This space for rent
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You're right, I didn't!
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The High Castle TV series was actually good,
actally got better in the second series, the people really come out.
Reckon they picked a damn good director & cast.
Sin tack
the any key okay
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The series is very good and the actors are great, my girlfriend adored that series (and she's pretty picky).
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
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* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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High Castle was very well done, really good TV series, differs substantially from the book although contains the essence of it.
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Very good! (handwave) And Antarctica, just like the moon, are both uninhabited and absolutely uninteresting.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Another one?
God forbid that TV writers should choose something original or interesting to write about.
I'll bet 1,000 lines of code that they know p1ss all about German mentality and behaviour -- why write anything resembling reality in, when you can use cardboard cut-outs?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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IIRC, it is based on a book by Len Deighton. The Nazis' invasion of Britain has succeeded, and Britain is controlled by the SS.
The book was OK, I don't know about the miniseries.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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