[-] eyy@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

great work!

[-] eyy@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

oh man that was one of the best phones hardware-wise. unfortunately that was also the era when samsung = bloatware

[-] eyy@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

I was there in the 80s and 90s. You young people are definitely luckier. You are by far more beautiful, more gentle, you are more welcoming, you don’t discriminate against gays and nerds. Socializing without mobiles was as boring as you can expect.

But you could afford a house on a single income :'(

[-] eyy@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

he just implemented an anti-NSFW upload feature in the app to do his part. Essentially, Sync users currently can’t post any kind of porn

but what about normal, legal, NSFW material?

[-] eyy@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's never been a technical reason, it's the fact that most systems still running on COBOL are live, can't be easily paused, and there's an extremely high risk of enormous consequences for failure. Banks are a great example of this - hundreds of thousands of transactions per hour (or more), you can't easily create a backup because even while you're backing up more business logic and more records are being created, you can't just tell people "hey we're shutting off our system for 2 months, come back and get your money later", and if you fuck up during the migration and rectify it within in hour, you would have caused hundreds/thousands of people to lose some money, and god forbid there was one unlucky SOB who tried to transfer their life savings during that one hour.

And don't forget the testing that needs to be done - you can't even have an undeclared variable that somehow causes an overflow error when a user with a specific attribute deposits a specific amount of money in a specific branch code when Venus and Mars are aligned on a Tuesday.

[-] eyy@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

That doesn’t sound right at all. How could the amount of COBOL code in use quadruple at a time when everyone is trying to phase it out?

Because why they're trying, they need to keep adding business logic to it constantly. Spaghetti code on top of spaghetti code.

[-] eyy@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

It's South Africa. Putin will be safe as long as Russia keeps building in the country.

[-] eyy@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

"vandalism" is really stretching it.

[-] eyy@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

i'll wait for the confirmed results.

[-] eyy@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

I thought the HR director was being especially ridiculous, because I wasn't paid by the hour. Also I had to rush to complete stuff after the meeting anyway, so there was zero chance I could have slacked off in those two days.

[-] eyy@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

ah yes, the classic "you need to fix it but I won't give you time/money to fix it" conundrum. standard corpo bs. serves them right

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