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Can't believe Brexit was voted 6 years ago, time flies so fast.

• IncRnd 4y ago
  Along those lines, Britain joined the EU a year after Smalltalk-72 and K&R C were introduced. Smalltalk inspired Objective-C, which is still used today in Macs.
  • origin_path 4y ago
    The British Constitution can be seen as a large piece of legacy code which has never been tossed and rewritten from scratch, just incrementally patched and refactored over a really long period of time. Downside: lots of bizarre complexities, bits of dead code, stuff that works as long as nobody touches it etc. Upsides: it's really stable.
    • neilwilson 4y ago
      Much like our DNA. As I get older I have more and more respect for Chestertons Fence.
    • bregma 4y ago
      Sounds like it's time to rewrite it in Rust.
• that_guy_iain 4y ago
  Yea, it seems like yesterday it got announced. I was working in Berlin with an English guy, he took it super hard. We went out for drinks after work and at the end of the night he was telling one of the Germans they were lucky - because they were still in the EU.
• teamonkey 4y ago
  Counterpoint: it feels like it’s been going on forever