Wait, what? What's the context for this call? Weirdly, I know COBOL. Eons ago, I learned it for a job that was fairly lucrative, well, for my very broke self. This call is right next to my dream of volunteering to do an emergency lit review when they call for a doctor on board.https://twitter.com/manicode/status/1246497036389793792 …
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I saw a fair number of dates like "19101" in the early 00s, too.
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Yup. If people had a clue what did NOT blow up because of all the patches, fixes and incessant testing they'd probably never sleep again.
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many state government functions like unemployment apparently run on cobol, hence the need for programmers to deal with it...
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It boggles my mind with Covid though when they've already just seen it tear through Wuhan and Italy!
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That’s a story I’ve been thinking a lot about. The people who go: Y2K was overblown, nothing happened, just like climate change will be fine + COVID will be fine. How does one tell the story in a more compelling way?
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It's a real issue. We came *this close* [makes tiny teeny pinch space] to a catastrophe with SARS. What if SARS did not always have fever in infectious phase? Like SARS-CoV-2? As soon as that Jan 29 NEJM paper showing atypical clinical presentation came out, I thought here we go.
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Most State unemployment systems and other large systems still run on mainframes and COBOL.
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Try not to think about all the critical government systems running on EOLed Lotus Notes, too...
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I recall the cries from business leaders of "Why did nobody tell about this?", when we had, we just kept getting told it was "not a priority at this time" until it was an emergency. And then all the idiots who angrily claim it was a hoax because we did the work and... it worked
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