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> Dang fake news man come to think of it. That's an odd and rather insulting term for a problem that cost about $300 billion, globally, to address and prevent.
by dingaling 6y ago
> Dang fake news man come to think of it.
That's an odd and rather insulting term for a problem that cost about $300 billion, globally, to address and prevent.
I spent two years working on Y2K remediation and that was just within one department of one Fortune 100 company. We were still mopping-up a few missed patches of code throughout 2000 as they generated bugs.
- jxramos 6y agoFake news is probably harsh, but it did seem exaggerated. So I'm curious were the patches mostly precautionary or did people actually take said systems and run them on different clocks to see what actually happens to them when the time rolls over. I was much younger back then so my take on it all was pretty simplistic, but did people demonstrate actual program crashes and what not in some reproducible manner?