Posts by teambob

Field support chap got married – which took down a mainframe

The old trick was to wear your wedding ring on a tight necklace

Rust is eating into our systems, and it's a good thing

Recovering C++ Programmer

Rust doesn't have a stable ABI. Looks like they are going to copy at least one of C++'s mistakes.

Of course Go gets around this problem by using static linking only. Without a stable ABI it means there will never be a "maven" for C++ or any other language that doesn't have an ABI

Faxing hell: The cops say they would very much like us to stop calling them all the time

Reminds me of an incident at an EFTPOS company I used to work for. We had a product for supermarkets etc. that would aggregate the data and make all the phone calls for the terminals down the one E1 fibre line.

Of course what would a French programmer put as the default phone number 000... and of course the emergency number in Australia is 000. The volume of calls ended up causing an outage at the emergency call centre for ISDN and mobile calls