Steve Moseler
Programming Quotes
Jeremy KahnI wonder if this explains the appeal of time travel movie tropes
"I'm here to prevent the bad future"
"I've lived Groundhog Day so many times"
Justin Derrick@programming_quotes There’s an episode of Futurama that contains one of my favourite quotes…. (Check the #AltText.)
Leon Cowle@programming_quotes @glennf So true. See Y2k.
Martin Vermeer FCD@programming_quotes AKA Y2K syndrome
Galbinus Caeli@programming_quotes See "Y2K" for examples. A hell of a lot of people worked damn hard to make that a non-event.
Bytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇬🇱2038. Maybe, everyone on the planet will be using a 64-bit time_t by then. Who knows?
@bytebro I plan to continue my effort to ensure that no one remembers that I ever programmed in COBOL.
Don't knock it - at my former employers, all the file formats that we receive 'from the business' as opposed to 'from clients' are specified as COBOL file layouts - the back end is still running some flavour of VMS.
Nicely understandable file layouts, as long as one does NOT have to use COBOL to read the feckers.
@bytebro I haven't touched COBOL since I left fintech in 2008. (Guess why.)
Roy Brander🍁@programming_quotes
The point of the "newspaper headlines" scene near the end of Kingsman.
And in general, join the public service for a whole lot of this sensation.
And thank a cop for handing out speeding tickets; one of them probably changed somebody's behaviour enough to save a life.
OGJester has moved@programming_quotes True story: I was in a class with a bunch of other #railroad track inspectors, and during a bit of a break from normal, dry book material, the instructor asked for a show of hands from everyone who felt like they had found something during one of their routine inspections that had prevented a train derailment.
The only guy who didn’t raise his hand was the guy who had only been on the job for two weeks. Everyone else’s hands were up. Think about that.