If anyone ever asks whether technical debt has a concrete cost, here’s Prosper paying $3 million because they lost institutional knowledge of how a number was calculated (and it snowballed from there): https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2019/33-10630.pdf …
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For historical context, this was the issue which first caused me to start commenting on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=377347
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I heard a technical debt horror story related to the SEC. A company that helps other companies file reports used the now-discontinued Adobe Flex to create PDFs. They’ve spent over 2 years reverse-engineering the code.
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