I regularly quote that on Twitter, variously attributed to Clifford Stoll
("The Cookoo's Egg") and Gerald Weinberg.
https://twitter.com/tedroche/status/1200049958642171904?s=20
https://twitter.com/tedroche/status/577178603198279680?s=20
On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 1:33 PM Fred Taylor wrote:
> I hav
Yes, the amount of data that can be saved in member data is limited, and if
you like to use camel case in your property and method names it is possible to
fill it up. It's annoying but harmless. If you just enter your new names all
lower case VFP won't complain at you when you try to add or upd
Never saw this message before! See screenshot:
https://www.screencast.com/t/pRyIOhBt
This is an app that's huge and of many years old.
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I have a coffee cup that has on it:
"If builders built buildings the way that programmers wrote programs,
then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization"
Fred
On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 9:57 AM Ted Roche wrote:
> "Who's ever going to need more than 640k?"
>
> "Just use 9
On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 at 16:11, Ted Roche wrote:
>
> If you
>
> SET CENTURY ON
> SET CENTURY TO 19 ROLLOVER 20
>
> this is reminder it might be a good time to review the implications of that
> :)
Found some old C# code today that used 2020-01-01 instead of MaxDate.
I don't know what dummass wrote th
One that no longer works here.
It was their attempt to hide the date of the mfg in labels we place on
EVERYTHING. Actually they now work for the ERP company we use. He was a
great cost accountant, not a good systems guy.
On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 10:45 AM MB Software Solutions, LLC <
mbsoftwaresol
"Who's ever going to need more than 640k?"
"Just use 99 for the year. The system will be replaced long before then."
"OTHERWISE? We don't need an OTHERWISE in our CASE statements."
It's amazing computers haven't destroyed mankind. Yet.
On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 11:11 AM Ted Roche wrote:
> If you
Hello.
It is always reassuring to think that software developers did not even
think that their work would survive them ...
Happy new bug !
Gérard.
Le 08/01/2020 à 17:35, Christof Wollenhaupt a écrit :
https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-y2k-bug-is-back-causing-headaches-for-developers-again/
What kind of a**hole uses just ONE digit for a year?!?!?
On 1/8/2020 11:35 AM, Stephen Russell wrote:
We got bit with a lot of hard coded functionality on our Lot #s because of
our use of a 1 digit year. That was started in 2011 and nobody thought of
an foul at 2020.
ASNs to customers, MFG
>
> https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-y2k-bug-is-back-causing-headaches-for-developers-again/
Nice, they even mention our local subway system in Hamburg which failed a
couple of days ago due to a software update.
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We got bit with a lot of hard coded functionality on our Lot #s because of
our use of a 1 digit year. That was started in 2011 and nobody thought of
an foul at 2020.
ASNs to customers, MFG date on CofAs all fell under my control. Happy
happy joy joy.
On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 10:11 AM Ted Roche w
If you
SET CENTURY ON
SET CENTURY TO 19 ROLLOVER 20
this is reminder it might be a good time to review the implications of that
:)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-y2k-bug-is-back-causing-headaches-for-developers-again/
https://hackfox.github.io/section4/s4g035.html
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