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The engineer who wrote the code will retire in Aug. Problem solved

• benjaminwai 5y ago
  I kind of sympathize the engineer who had to code this in the first place years ago. I could see it, it was probably a junior person being thrown into it. He would have had to deal with non-standard components, incompatible packages and limited memory, and had a manager breathing down his neck because the manufacturing line was starting up.. He's probably looking up at the clock and thinking that it had enough bits for the foreseeable future.
  • throwaway472927 5y ago
    I'd be a bit surprised if anyone even checked, it's easy to type int out of habit when a number is needed, or even if the dev did consider it the code building and running might be enough reassurance.
• AshamedCaptain 5y ago
  Or rather: it's the latest date we are legally required to support this piece of software on these old cars on any tier-one country.