Ahhh... Y2K... the last part of my coding/programmer career was working on that. Suffice to say, I now ALWAYS write out the full 4-digit year on everything. LOL.
Ahhh... Y2K... the last part of my coding/programmer career was working on that. Suffice to say, I now ALWAYS write out the full 4-digit year on everything. LOL.
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I spent a solid 2 years in QA specifically focused on y2k testing. There were real issues to fix, and fix we did. And our software worked flawlessly when Jan 1, 2000 came along. That doesn't make it a hoax.Ahhh... Y2K... the last part of my coding/programmer career was working on that.
Most states had some version of a stay at home order. This prevented a lot of people from contracting Covid and kept infection rates (relatively) low-ish. That doesn't make it a hoax.
So many computer people on this forum! The rest of us were out partying like it was 1999.
I well remember the COBOL coders’ last stand. They were indeed the best informed people on the issues. After all, it was largely their lack of foresight that created them. But in their defense, nobody thought so many poorly documented lines of code would still be in use many years in the future.
I think it’s interesting how well we are able to ignore the approach of inevitable crises until it’s almost too late, whether in software, pestilence or insolvency of retirement systems.
California is now mandating masks. I hope other states follow suit.
about time (although people do wear masks). Too bad it only came after that health director in orange county had to lose their job over it etc.- not going to be any qualified people left in government at any level by the time Trump and his merry band of idiots is done with us.California is now mandating masks.
Trees don't grow on money
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