[ale] monster.com job posting.

[Fulton Green]

The code on Monster is still extremely crufty from the days of seat-of-the-
pants coding back in the mid-90s. Their re'sume' editing feature is
horrible; if you're making frequent edits, you eventually get a "string
overflow" error, and apparently only cleaning out your cache will fix it.

I've never worked there or even knew anyone that did; I can just tell that
they're basically using the same core codebase as back in the early days
(though their front-end has gone through some changes), and I'd bet that
they don't have the resources to fix any but the most severe of defects, so
something like a more sensible URL for individual job postings is probably
low priority for them these days.

On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 05:53:23AM -0700, phrostie wrote:
> ok, my turn for a stupid question.
> 
> why can't these strings be made shorter?
> 
> i'm not a programmer (web or otherwise), but it seems that they could just
> assign an index number using 0,1,2,,,,x,y,z and have more than enough
> combinations to accomadate all of their listings with a 30 to 40 character 
> string.

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