The Core
Why We Are Here => Marketing => Topic started by: ergophobe on January 01, 2021, 09:42:36 PM
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These people didn't wait:
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Looks like 852,000,000 pages beat me to it
https://www.google.com/search?q=intitle%3A2021
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Happy new year everyone!
How about just doing it once and forgetting about it?
<title>Blah blah in <?php echo date("Y"); ?></title>
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Happy New Year.
><title>Blah blah in <?php echo date("Y"); ?></title>
You using php, LM? Perl finally get too old?
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Regarding New Year's Eve changes, a thread about Y2K that I found interesting:
https://twitter.com/steve_lieber/status/1344788482061811713
"Y2K was 21 years ago. Looking back, I think the only thing we learned is that if a bunch people work really hard to stop a problem from happening, lots of other people will assume it was never really a problem."
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I am not coding as much as I used to, but most of the stuff I've done recently has been in PHP. Not much out there is supporting Perl these days. For web stuff PHP is hard to beat convenience wise.
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>Y2K
I knew some who thought it was going to be the end of the world and went full prepper at the time.
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I assume a fair number of those pages are automatic updates, but a fair number of people also seemed to have anticipated 2021 by a few days. Ever since Brian Dean told everyone to do it, that little tip has become a lot less useful.
>>assume it was never really a problem
This is a fundamental problem. Maintenance tasks of all sorts - Y2K bugs in code, deteriorating bridges, etc - get no glory. Politicians can't get photo ops at a properly maintained bridge.
Anyway, Happy New Year everyone!
All in all, 2020 turned out much better for us than I expected back at the end of March. If 2021 merely comes in as an "average" year, I'll be quite pleased. My standards have reset a bit ;-)
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>Y2k
The custom wholesaler's package I built in the early 80s was tight on space in the record fields, so -yeah- I had used a 2-digit year. Besides, no system would last for almost another 2 decades. It did, and I spent 1999 patching & modifying code that I hadn't touched in 15 years.
>2020 turned out much better for us
Good! My dislike for much of humanity and reclusive tendencies paid off this year.