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Data Organization (lemmy.ml)

submitted 15 hours ago by cm0002@piefed.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol 17 points 10 hours ago (12 children)

As an old person who has archives dating back to the 90s, yes.

[–] absentbird@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago (6 children)

Here you go gramps:

(shortD) => {
    return parseInt(shortD.slice(0, 2), 10) > 50 ? "19" + shortD : "20"+shortD;
}

[–] 5C5C5C@programming.dev 7 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (5 children)

Did the software industry learn nothing from Y2K? Was it too long ago already for people to remember the mess we made for ourselves?

Saving two characters in a file name is not worth the hell you are leaving in your trail by shoving this nonsense in an obscure corner of production code that people are going to forget about until it's too late.

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 hours ago

Their grandchildren will be pissing on their graves over it.

I often wonder what files may outlive me.

People have kept old physical remnants. There are obviously famous examples but there are far more mediocre examples.

All the unique content I've created fits on a modestly sized hard drive so keeping it around would be trivial compared to maintaining all those physical remnants.

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