When does a software developer retire?
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John C wrote:
It all went off smoothly for us and most other sites world wide thanks to a *hell* of a lot of hard work but for weeks afterwards it was the butt of late night talk show jokes and generally the common attitude that the whole thing was way overblown and to this day it still pisses me off that no one really understood the reason why it went smoothly was all that hard work by so many people to make sure it was ok.
And some of us made sure that Y2K was not a problem in the first place. I know it was kind of useless, but all my employers were y2k long before the stress hit, even the Cobol and RPG jobs were done long before. Did the ones who weren't in crisis get a mention? No, the quiet average programmer with a bit of foresight got no mention either. Everyone who busted their behinds to make sure Y2K went off without a hitch was largely ignored regardless of when they fixed it. People wanted a disaster, we disappointed them.... :rolleyes:
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
El Corazon wrote:
People wanted a disaster, we disappointed them....
but the timestamp on one of the IRC servers I used was off by over 10,000 years till sometime in march. Doesn't that count as the apocalypse? :rolleyes:
Otherwise [Microsoft is] toast in the long term no matter how much money they've got. They would be already if the Linux community didn't have it's head so firmly up it's own command line buffer that it looks like taking 15 years to find the desktop. -- Matthew Faithfull
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When does a software developer or programmer retire? Is it (when his brains can no longer thing) OR (when his hand and fingers can no longer type) { :suss::cool: :~ } OR do we live forever ???
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Steve
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El Corazon wrote:
People wanted a disaster, we disappointed them....
but the timestamp on one of the IRC servers I used was off by over 10,000 years till sometime in march. Doesn't that count as the apocalypse? :rolleyes:
Otherwise [Microsoft is] toast in the long term no matter how much money they've got. They would be already if the Linux community didn't have it's head so firmly up it's own command line buffer that it looks like taking 15 years to find the desktop. -- Matthew Faithfull
Was the IRC down or just had the wrong time... if it were down that counts as apocalypse... if it was just the date that is drink more of your favorite beverage until it all looks the same time...
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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When does a software developer or programmer retire? Is it (when his brains can no longer thing) OR (when his hand and fingers can no longer type) { :suss::cool: :~ } OR do we live forever ???
For me, as soon as possible. Which in reality, means in fifteen to twenty years; longer if my 401k and IRA continue to tank. (As I tell my wife; I'm okay if I can just code, but I can't stand dealing with management and the bureaucracy and yes, they've both generally gotten much worse over the years.)
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
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Gary Wheeler wrote:
I wasn't meaning to denigrate the work people did prior to 2000
I know, I'm just sensitive about it, it's a small part of history that I was involved in that will forever be thought of wrongly by the average person, there's worse things. :)
"The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying." - David Ogilvy
John C wrote:
it's a small part of history
I gave a talk at a company where the people couldn't understand the Y2K problems. I asked how many were going to keep their current bank checks after the turn of the century. With puzzled looks, I asked someone to look at the date preprinted on the checks - of course, when they read "19_ _" there was a big ah-ha moment. I then asked how many tombstones needed changed for the living spouse's death year where the "19" was already engraved in stone. There were several.
Gary
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Was the IRC down or just had the wrong time... if it were down that counts as apocalypse... if it was just the date that is drink more of your favorite beverage until it all looks the same time...
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
The MOTD was dated XX XXX 19100. I was being flippant because it was the most serious problem I actually saw. Sadly I was visiting family on the other side of the country and didn't know where their breaker box was when midnight rolled around. :((
Otherwise [Microsoft is] toast in the long term no matter how much money they've got. They would be already if the Linux community didn't have it's head so firmly up it's own command line buffer that it looks like taking 15 years to find the desktop. -- Matthew Faithfull