I'm going to use this decent thread as a platform for my own views Hey, fools, CODE IS LIABILITY, SOMEONE NEEDS TO OWN IThttps://twitter.com/jxxf/status/1219009308438024200 …
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There is code that you own and you don't know you own it. There's code you know you own and you've never once looked at it. Get a spelunking task up on the board
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I mean, it might be nothing. But it might be you need to drop everything else and spend six months applying ten years of cumulative shirked security fixes. Until you look you don't know
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When I inherit code, I schedule time to investigate it. You always inherit bugs, tickets, incomplete work, unknown unknowns. If nothing else, people ease off when they know something isn't going to be their responsibility anymore
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And the total amount of (in use) code in the world, and the rate at which we're producing new code, is dramatically outpacing the amount of experienced programmer brains available for full understanding/coverage of it. Thus we're producing a disproportionate amount of time bombs.
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The world cannot afford to maintain the code it is producing. The consequences for end users will be increasingly dire.
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As of today, we have about eighteen years to go until the Y2038 problem occurs.
But the Y2038 problem will be giving us headaches long, long before 2038 arrives.
I'd like to tell you a story about this.