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Real world example of why Apple is killing 32 bit apps on iOS.
"This was obviously an unforeseen bug that was nearly impossible to anticipate..." Snarky... Except that there were probably years of games to notice that you were approaching a "magic number" like 2^31.
It's fascinating... the Y2K problem never came to fruition because - arguably - of the immense effort put in behind the scenes by people who understood what might have happened if they hadn't. The end result has been that the entire class of problems is overlooked, because people see it as having been a fuss over nothing. I sometimes think it would've been better if a few things had visibly failed in January 2000.
Self-confidence as a programmer is when starting a new project, storing the transaction ID as a long rather than an int...
Or UUID...
The simplest way to do that is to just throw UUID at all problems from the start. (https://github.com/alizain/ulid s are better, but there aren't libraries to generate them in literally every language + RDBMS.)
It's fascinating... the Y2K problem never came to fruition because - arguably - of the immense effort put in behind the scenes by people who understood what might have happened if they hadn't. The end result has been that the entire class of problems is overlooked, because people see it as having been a fuss over nothing. I sometimes think it would've been better if a few things had visibly failed in January 2000.
Having to spend billions of dollars on programmers' goofy means of saving a few bytes of memory is a pretty visible failure.
That was a valuable lesson.
(I actually generated most entries myself while testing stuff - live in prod of course - and while there were probably fewer than 255 votes, the AUTO_INCREMENT did its job and produced an overflow).
Do we know when chess.com launched? If so, we can calculate the average number of games being played per second.
It's fascinating... the Y2K problem never came to fruition because - arguably - of the immense effort put in behind the scenes by people who understood what might have happened if they hadn't. The end result has been that the entire class of problems is overlooked, because people see it as having been a fuss over nothing. I sometimes think it would've been better if a few things had visibly failed in January 2000.