There are serious programming subs. However, I find that those tend to debate/discuss solutions/approaches moreso than the actual code itself, although that’s not unheard of either. For actual coding questions, I want to say there’s a “learn programming” sub that has those, but they’re pretty strict about just doing people’s homework for them (those posts tend to be pretty obvious).
The validation system is extremely off-putting. I have been working on some specialized tools for years so I could have answered some very precise questions with good confidence. However, the system was always there to detrust me and I was not going to spend hours to go through their hoops for an answer that takes me 10 min to redact. So instead I’ll post it on Reddit or a gist hopping people will be able to discover it.
Honestly, meme communities’ comments could have some of the best in-depth discussions. Memes tend to provide a great launching point for discussions. A sort of prompt that everyone can coalesce around to talk in a serious manner about the subject.
/r/dndmemes and /r/programmerhumor were two great examples.
Please note that AS refers to American Samoa, DC refers to the District of Columbia, FM refers to Federated States of Micronesia, GU refers to Guam, MH refers to Marshall Islands, MP refers to Northern Mariana Islands, PW refers to Palau, PR refers to Puerto Rico, and VI refers to the U.S. Virgin Islands.
This will be a tough one to fix. There must be millions upon millions of embedded systems out there with 16-bit epoch burned in.
They’ll all be much tougher to find than “YEAR PIC(99)” in COBOL was.
Y2K wasn’t a problem because thousands upon thousands of programmers worked on it well in advance (including myself) we had source code and plenty of static analysis tools, often homegrown.
The 2038 bugs are already out there…in the wild…their source code nothing but a distant dream.
It was. Now it’s bloated with Microsoft’s services and thrown in your face if you don’t use it as your default. For example Outlook defaults to opening it for links in emails even if you have a different browser as you default. Bullshit move Microsoft.
Clean code, extensive documentation, help files and readmes aren’t supposed to prevent you from forgetting how it works. I’m not sure what you’re trying to tell me with the second half of this meme.
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