deqer wrote on Mar 11, 2013, 11:42:
IT IS POSSIBLE. YOU'RE SO FULL OF SHIT.
YOUR PROGRAMMERS WOULD NOT HAVE DONE IT LIKE THAT. YOUR PROGRAMMERS WOULD'VE MADE SWITCHES FOR EVERYTHING, AND YOU CAN JUST SWITCH IT ON OR OFF, OTHERWISE YOUR PROGRAMMERS AREN'T REAL PROGRAMMERS.
STOP FUCKING LYING TO US ALREADY, YOU POS.
Why would they have been that redundant?
Coding for something to be done server-side and something to be done client-side is extremely different. Or, more accurately, coding for something to be done by a server is extremely different than coding the same process for a client. Extremely different. In one case it's all a system needs to do. In another case the system is doing tens of thousands of instances at the same time.
If you can avoid doing both you would.
Which doesn't excuse the decision to do it server-side in the first place, but it isn't hard to imagine that they wouldn't add these redundancies.