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Same. We use 64-bit ints as "Entity IDs", and countless other stuff. Saying that it's a "parser problem" is not really helpful, bc many parsers refuse to support 64-bit ints, even …

Even if you force them to give you a raise now, that doesn't mean you "won". They might just skip you when they finally "give a raise to everyone".

I decided to become a programmer, the first time I got an "Out of memory error", bc the code was too big. But the computer had 8K or something :D

"the bureaucracy, the aversion to change, and the outdated technology" exist just as much in the private sector.

I work for a German company. They run their own DC (unfortunately, I'm not privy to precise numbers I could share, but we must be in the 1000s of hardware servers). Why? Because ou…

OmniTracker, the web UI! Imagine how fun it is to type a "stack-trace" into your issue tracker, because it doesn't even support copy-and-paste... Luckily, unknown to most people, I…