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End-of-life dates
- mcemilg 5y agoIt's cool; honestly, I didn't know Python 3.6 support ended two months ago while I was still using it.
- tacone 5y agoWould be nice for this to have some sort of iCal integration.
- captn3m0 5y agoWe have a PR open for this, so it should be coming soon. Along with RSS feeds.
- scrollaway 5y agoThis is a super useful resource for anyone writing libraries that need to be compatible with a range of "all currently-supported versions" of something. I use it all the time.
- jonhohle 5y agoI’m not sure what I’m supposed to see, but all there is is a pitch for an end of life app and a link to GitHub and other supporting sites that talk about a project vaguely but don’t provide any content or examples. Is there an issue with a data store or does the site not work in Safari (iOS)?
- mark_and_sweep 5y agoSame for me, using Firefox on Android. The navigation is not visible. Quick workaround: Enable desktop mode in your browser.
- Liquid_Fire 5y agoAt least in Firefox (Android) if you tap in the top right corner (there is nothing visible there, but just tap in the very corner) a list of projects appears.
- notRobot 5y agoThis works!
- ghostly_s 5y agowhat on eartg
- thatguy0900 5y agoPeak minimalism
- NBJack 5y agoThought the same. Chrome mobile rendering doesn't have a menu to browse by. Hopefully they will fix it soon.
- guessmyname 5y agoHere are some examples: - https://endoflife.date/go https://endoflife.date/go - https://endoflife.date/php https://endoflife.date/php - https://endoflife.date/nodejs https://endoflife.date/nodejs
- captn3m0 5y agoThis is a bug, we’re working on fixing it: https://github.com/endoflife-date/endoflife.date/issues/886 https://github.com/endoflife-date/endoflife.date/issues/886
- asicsp 5y agoPast discussion: "Show HN: Endoflife.date – Site with EOL dates of everything" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20033728 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20033728 (248 points | May 2019 | 80 comments)
- londons_explore 5y agoThe bricks my house is made of are now 119 years old. They haven't received any updates or substantial maintenance. The guy who made them is dead. His company is gone. Yet they are still functional and secure. They still work with the latest screws. If I had to switch out my bricks every 5 years, I don't think I'd have any time or money left for the rest of life. Can we make software that's a little more like my bricks?
- tikkabhuna 5y agoA single brick is more like a line of code than an application or library. Applications are more like buildings which need to be maintained. Perhaps you could consider it a multi-use building with many tenants and sometimes under attack.
- o_m 5y agoThat's easy. Just write software that doesn't do anything.
- bluGill 5y agoDo you really want to? Your house probably didn't have electric lights when it was made. Your house probably didn't have telephone, much less cable TV wires, or ethernet. Note that wired telephone is a technology that came and went during the life of your house, today you may not care, but 50 years ago that would have been an issue. I'm not sure if your house would have had plumbing or not, even if it did the bathroom (singular - today most families want several) and kitchen were at best outdated. I have no doubt that your house has poor insulation. I suspect that your house has had several major renovations over the years, and the basic facts of the original structure limit what you can do and so it is still dated (though maybe in an endearing way) I'm starting to think the Japanese have the right idea: build the house to last 20 years and rebuild often. Some parts of modern house design are fads that I hope to see die, but there are a lot of parts about modern houses that make them much better than old ones.
- scrollaway 5y agoEverything has a lifetime. Individual bricks just have a pretty long one. Your building overall probably has a much, much shorter lifetime than you think, and likely has received updates and substantial maintenance over the decades, if anything at least to keep it up to code. Maintenance is one way of extending the lifetime of things. Otherwise, your building would regularly be torn down and rebuilt. This is often the case, when maintenance is no longer enough. That's the best case scenario, too, as the worst case is it collapses of its own volition, potentially with you in it. Everything has a lifetime: https://tildes.net/~talk/109v/thoughts_on_lifetimes_limits_and_tolerances https://tildes.net/~talk/109v/thoughts_on_lifetimes_limits_a...
- Taywee 5y agoThe mobile version of this is unusable on Firefox for Android.
- _8j50 5y agoThat name. I clicked thinking it was about people in a hospice dating. Glad it's nothing so morbid.
- bko 5y agoI thought it was dates in which people prophesized end of the world, including dates of actual end of world (e.g. heat death of universe)
- jraph 5y agoMe too. Reading other comments, it appears once again that it's unfortunate that date designates both a reference to a particular day, and a romantic encounter.
- code_duck 5y agoEOLdates may have been a more easily interpreted name to tech people.
- Vinnl 5y agoMe too, mostly because it's literally one of the projects on my project idea list. I wouldn't call that morbid though; I think it'd be beautiful to support terminally ill people finding love with less worry about leaving the other party behind.
- jaynetics 5y agoI expected this to be a form where I could put in some personal data and it would calculate the date of my death. I'm slightly disappointed.
- captn3m0 5y agoI occasionally see some hospice queries leading to the website in search console. I hadn’t considered the other meanings till I noticed these in the reports.
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- avnigo 5y agoMeta: perhaps hyphenating 'end-of-life' or including 'EOL' in the title might make it clearer to the reader on what this is about. I don't know if it was just me trying to figure out what those 'life dates' were from the title.
- foo_barrio 5y agoInteresting that you read it as "end of life-dates". I read it as "end-of-life dates" and thinking it was about very old people or terminally ill people dating each other and supporting themselves up through the end.
- MonkeyIsNull 5y agoExactly what I thought it was as well.
- ianai 5y ago“Support cycles” or something would be more self explanatory.
- monocasa 5y agoYeah I thought someone was capitalizing on the trope that old folks homes are basically orgy shacks and making a Tinder competitor for the space. You get a lot of people together dormitory style that have lost their life partner already, can't get pregnant, in a lot cases take a 'well it won't last that much longer anyway' approach to STIs, and have modern access to boner pills, and you have a recipe for a lot of casual hookups.
- dbbk 5y agoI thought it was dating for people who were terminally ill...
- dang 5y agoHyphenated above. Thanks!
- jve 5y agoSo, whos gonna find the longest concrete date right there? I have one for 22 years... 3.5 SP1 14 years ago (19 Nov 2007) Ends in 6 years and 10 months (09 Jan 2029)
- _dain_ 5y agothought this was a dating app for hospice patients
- freedomben 5y agothere's a unicorn idea right there
- WhyNotHugo 5y agoVery handy. Will keep it bookmarked for reference.
- devoutsalsa 5y agoI don't know why I was expecting Hospice Tinder.
- travisgriggs 5y agoAh, the joys of the English language. I read the headline and thought “Now that’s a creative twist on marriage.”
- jjice 5y agoNice to have this as an aggregate of EOLs. Also didn't realize AL2 was hitting EOL so soon. I hope they have a better upgrade path for AL2022 than they did for AL2, which was "I don't know, figure it out" if I recall.
- benknight87 5y agoSmall nitpick - the search form doesn't stand out as input, it just looks like random header text.
- ck2 5y agoVery very nice. Confirmed a few dates I knew and some I wasn't aware of. Maybe helpful note that Windows 7 is not technically EOL but ESU https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/faq/extended-security-updates https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/faq/extended-secu... January 10, 2023
- ChrisSD 5y agoWith the caveat that ESU (Extended security Updates) cost companies increasing $$$ for every year after extended support ended.
- JohnTHaller 5y agoRelated: I hate that Apple doesn't give end of life dates for their OS releases. Especially since Safari is artificially tied to them IE-style.
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- mud_dauber 5y agoNot EXACTLY sure if applicable, but here goes: * I used to manage EOL notifications for a semiconductor co. There is an industry-std process for doing so. * EOL announcements came with pre-warning timelines. 12 months' warning, for example. * EOL dates were usually shared only with verified customers to keep the churn to a minimum. Alternative suppliers (with SKUs) were encouraged. * Product lines with EOL data was kept on a firewalled site for sales & customer lookups. * There were a couple of 3rd party & startup cos that tried to aggregate EOL dates, with minimal success.