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That's a nightmare. I've refactored a few legacy systems over the years, requirement capture is often hard (what should this be doing). A good starting point is to do small safe refactorings, such as extracting chunks to well named methods, replacing magic numbers with enums, etc. Until the code begins to become more readable.
Good luck, you have my sympathy.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: Good luck, you have my sympathy.
Well, I've vented some of my frustration on the Weird and Wonderful. Thank goodness for an outlet!
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Sounds like a single very clear original requirement in the 1.0 version to me.
"APPEARANCE 1: To minimize retraining, the application shall exactly mirror the labeling of the existing paper form."
 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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The new C++ standard brings many useful additions to the Standard Library. "Raise your standards to create change."
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Researchers at Facebook’s AI lab have developed an expressive bot, an animation controlled by an artificially intelligent algorithm. The algorithm was trained on hundreds of videos of Skype conversations, so that it could learn and then mimic how humans adjust their expressions in response to each other. Forcing an AI to spend hours on Skype? We're lucky they haven't killed us off.
But it is really good at saying, "Can you hear me now?" and, "Could you go on mute, please?"
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Where'd they get the Skype videos?
They asked users for permission to snoop?
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GenJerDan wrote: Where'd they get the Skype videos?
They asked users for permission to snoop?
I was wondering the same. I thought Skype is a M$ product. If they had used WhatsApp it would not surprise me that much.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Jon von Tetzchner, the founder of both Opera and Vivaldi, believes that Google has gotten too big and "is now in a position where regulation is needed." Oh, but they'd never do evil, would they?
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Everything is relative. For example, the Federal Reserve is the huge elephant in the room that everyone ignores and which makes Google look like a mouse.
Odd how we frown upon the potential evil of Google when the historical evils of the Federal Reserve are there for all to see. The US debt is close to $7,000,000,000,000 and it ain't Google that is collecting the huge interest payments from fiat loans 'graciously provided' by the Fed.
Me thinks people have their priorities in the wrong place!
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Microsoft is looking to get more feedback from IT pros about business-focused Windows 10 features via a new virtual lab, known as Olympia Corp. Because if there's one thing enterprise sysadmins love, it's testing new features
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Yes, yes, the holodeck on the Enterprise 
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The case could set a legal precedent for workers' rights to privacy. Is this going to be another round of those "we use cookie" notifications?
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Nine years after going open source, Reddit is archiving the source code for its website and mobile apps. The source code will still be accessible, but will no longer be updated -- Reddit cites concerns about competition as one of the reasons for the change in direction. Open for thee, but not for me
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Why didn't everybody just get that? If you leave the cookies out..
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A team of researchers from the U.S. and China has demonstrated electronic devices that can degrade and disappear on demand using nothing but moisture in the air. Oh good: because mine always disappear whenever they feel like it
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Mine degrade as soon as warrantee runs out.
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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So you ran away? Or did you mean warranty?
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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This message will self-destruct in 5 seconds.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Mozilla used to be our bulwark against the the closure of the web. Can it muster a defense again? This news item looks best at 1024x768 in Netscape Navigator 4.0
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The Russian president warned that artificial intelligence offers ‘colossal opportunities’ as well as dangers But some people do
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North Korea ‘low on our list of concerns’ says Tesla boss following Putin’s statement that whoever leads in AI will rule world. OK, Elon, we get it: you don't like AI
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I think it will be different than previous wars...
In past war was about controlling resources between those who already had a lot, but with AI resources will be divide in a more business like way and the real war will be between those who control and those who don't want to be controlled...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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that will be only the first AI war...
the second one will be probably machines trying to defeat that pest of humanity and humans fighting to avoid extinction.
And yes... I know this is not possible blah blah, only films blah blah...
To answer that I only have a quote (don't remember who said it):
What today is written as science fiction will (or can) be reminded as history in the future.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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