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Complex systems, wicked problems. Society, technology, science and more. @UNC professor. @NYTimes columnist. My newsletter is @insight: http://www.theinsight.org 

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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 4 Apr 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Jim Manico

      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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      Jim Manico @manicode
      The governor of New Jersey just put out the call on live TV that he is desperate for Cobol programmers right now.
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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 4 Apr 2020

      I did get a shot at my other "dream" question and asked a surgeon if I would be able to play the piano after my hand surgery. (In case not obvious: I never did learn play the piano beyond a very rudimentary level so always wanted to ask! I was reassured, yes!)

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 4 Apr 2020

      By the way, just like SARS, Y2K was a near-miss. We should learn from near-misses. Many programmers worked very hard to avoid a catastrophe and fixed legacy code. I saw two-digit year variables in the nineties! There was a lot to clean up, and people did. Hence no big crisis.

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        1. Bill Stewart‏ @BillStewart415 4 Apr 2020
          Replying to @zeynep @suldrew

          I saw a fair number of dates like "19101" in the early 00s, too.

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        1. Suzanne‏ @slvrfnx 4 Apr 2020
          Replying to @zeynep

          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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        1. Maia Szalavitz‏Verified account @maiasz 4 Apr 2020
          Replying to @zeynep

          many state government functions like unemployment apparently run on cobol, hence the need for programmers to deal with it...

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        2. Andrew Hill‏ @ahontwi 4 Apr 2020

          It boggles my mind with Covid though when they've already just seen it tear through Wuhan and Italy!

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        2. Olga Nunes‏ @olganunes 4 Apr 2020
          Replying to @zeynep

          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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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 4 Apr 2020
          Replying to @olganunes

          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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        2. Dan Hon‏ @hondanhon 4 Apr 2020
          Replying to @zeynep

          Most State unemployment systems and other large systems still run on mainframes and COBOL.

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        3. Dan Hon‏ @hondanhon 4 Apr 2020
          Replying to @hondanhon @zeynep

          Try not to think about all the critical government systems running on EOLed Lotus Notes, too...

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        1. Kevin Daly‏ @KevDaly 4 Apr 2020
          Replying to @zeynep

          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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