Recently, I had a conversation with a junior developer on my team. Let’s call him Alan. We were talking about a new notification feature that was going to be used to send reminder e-mails to potentially thousands of people if they had forgotten to enter certain data in the last month or so. Alan was confident that the code he’d written was correct. “I’ve tested it well.”, he said…
  • NotMyOldRedditName
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    5 months ago5 months ago

    I’m sure many smaller companies had their own internal Y2K moment as they scaled and became a big hit, and realized they used a wrong datatype like int instead of long or something and shit was gonna break by XYZ date if they did nothing heh.

    • tunetardisEnglish
      20·
      5 months ago

      Imagine if you were the guy who made the call on IPv4 addresses…

      • NotMyOldRedditName
        20·
        5 months ago

        Give it long enough and somehow the person who decided on IPv6 will feel the same as every piece of matter we want to interact with can be networked.

        • tunetardisEnglish
          20·
          5 months ago

          I guess the MAC address guy is up next. 48 bits may not go so far if every light bulb is going to want its own.