Meta: 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.
End-of-life dates
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#22I’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)?
At 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.
This works!
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#23That name. I clicked thinking it was about people in a hospice dating. Glad it's nothing so morbid.
I 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)
Me 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.
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#24So, 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)
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#25The 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 bric…
While not 120 years old, we have code in production that was written 30 years ago and runs just fine.
It will be replaced this year however, not because there's anything wrong with it besides code quality, but because it generates files for a system that'll be changed to something entirely different this year.
If the ground around your house physically changed completely every 5 years, then maybe you'd switch out bricks more often as well...
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#26thought this was a dating app for hospice patients
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#27Meta: 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.
Interesting 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.
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#28That name. I clicked thinking it was about people in a hospice dating. Glad it's nothing so morbid.
I 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.
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#29The 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 bric…
> Can we make software that's a little more like my bricks?
Excellent. This is a great analogy!
- Did the weather in your area change? Maybe you live in Texas and experienced an abnormally huge freeze in 2020 which cause most people to have to replace plumbing and water heaters?
- Maybe you are experiencing more hurricanes than normal and so flooding has become more likely. Now you need to put your house up on stilts?
- What about that new Tesla you might have bought that needs a 240v charger? Can you do this without ripping open the wall?
Software entropy is not just because the software changes, but because the environment changes.
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#30The 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 bric…
The bricks may be fine another couple of centuries or more. Brick walls eventually become piles of bricks if they are not maintained, though. How many times do you figure someone has done tuck pointing on the mortar in 12 decades?