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The Universe will end before COBOL does, so IF the Universe hits Y10K it WILL be a problem 
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: That won't be a problem until Y10K. 
Did they checked leap and non leap century years ?
2100, 2200, 2300, 2400 ...
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Of course they did. They rock.
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To be fair, what technology would you use to replace a COBOL mainframe app that has been running for 40 years? How sure could you be that technology would still be supported in 20 years, let alone 40.
It's a bit sad that we have no better option for languages with longterm support.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I've made a lot of money maintaining legacy code. I love legacy code, nothing is your fault, and the customer is always grateful when you manage to add one more feature.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I'm pretty sure I've been reading this article yearly since I started paying attention to the tech press in the late 90's.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Visual F# Power Tools 2.0.0 feature support for F# 4.0 constructs Now with even more F, and even #
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Developers are more than aware that certain aspects of their job are considered unchartered territory by their boss – but what about the parts of software development that they shouldn’t be so clueless about? Bonus #0: reality in general, often
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Google’s Alphabet announcement yesterday left a lot of people scratching their heads, at least at first. "ABC, 123, baby, you and me girl"
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We followed up to ask whether it could have been set up by a Microsoft employee without the company’s knowledge since the domain registration record points to Microsoft as the source of the hosting web server. The spokesperson declined to comment further.
Sounds like someone finally figured out a good use for the Azure credits they had shoved down their throat. 
Meanwhile, of all the companies that should know the importance of preventing hostile squatters on domain variants Google should be at the top of the list.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Developers still value Apple's now-legacy language for iOS and Mac app dev, and the transition Swift will be gradual. Can we kick back?
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Developers are reluctant to crystalise the sunk cost of the time they invested in a now superseded language?
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Oracle's chief security officer is tired of customers performing their own security tests on Oracle software, and she's not going to take it anymore. Security through "No peeking!" Brilliant.
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Next step is to ask the hackers to stop too.
Sorry, but a company as big as Oracle ought to know the legal ramifications of negligence.
What do you mean - you didn't perform a security audit on the database system holding all that data? Because Oracle said not too!
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Brilliant idea 
The best way to have software with no known bug is to forbid search for bugs.
MS will do anything to hire such a brilliant person.
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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You want people to search for vulnerabilities?
Because that's how you get people to search for vulnerabilities
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I loved that point, where she came to threaten those who reveal a vulnerability...Good basis for long time partnership...
The most fascinating part is where she told, that Oracle does have a "fairly robust assurance programs" - it means they do not take any responsibility for your data!
Hopefully, this nice blog will upgrade Oracle's sells...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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After all, what a bummer to think about kidnapped children, genocide, urban violence, global-warming, etc. [^].
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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Never mind marriage; can you claim a robot as a dependent on your tax return?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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A team of international scientists used several of the world's most powerful telescopes to study the energy of the universe and concluded that the universe is slowly dying. "The time is gone, the song is over, thought I'd something more to say"
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Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
Fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way
We all do it! 
Good tune
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.1 new web site.
I know the voices in my head are not real but damn they come up with some good ideas!
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Did they take the lens cap off?
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Meh.
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I've read that the universe is contracting. The initial singularity that created the universe in the first place is now in reverse, and rather than expanding, the universe is now contracting. This gives rise to speculation as to what happens when the universe eventually contracts down to a single atom. Will there be another singularity? Is the universe constantly moving from big bang to singularity? Have there been many universes before the one in which we currently find ourselves?
I find these sorts of questions fascinating. This is why I love reading science so much. It piques the imagination and really makes you think
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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According to the latest data, it's known for some years now that it is not contracting but expanding, and the expansion rate is even accelerating. There is no indication that the mass inventory of the universe is above critical density, so the gravitational force is not strong enough to pull it back and it will likely expand (and cool down) forever, tomorrow even faster than today.
With our current theories (relativity and quantum mechanics), we actually don't need to speculate but can describe and understand the state of the universe when it was the size of a single atom. Both theories only fail when we reach the Planck length (~ 1,6*10^-35 m) and time (~ 5,4*10^-44 s); a single atom is huge in this regards (~ 2,5*10^-11 m).
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