DanielShir
Joined 15 years ago
Joined 15 years ago
I've actually specified that a single license is per a single user but can be installed on multiple machines. I've had several users request this.
As a true example here, my parents' house uses a simple computer to automate watering of different places in their garden. Looked the chip up, 32 bit system. So this will definitely stop working on Jan 2038.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. 2038 is going to be a big issue.
It really varied, depended a lot on the culture of the company itself. Some shops do anything their devs want while others simply ignore them and do whatever some exec decided to do.
The that interested me most was finding the reason why. Sometimes it was ridiculously silly.
Keep your software design simple, your code simple, your tools simple. Sure, it's nice to use new and shiny tech for your side projects, but real software should be done simply and efficiently.
Simple trumps everything else, but it takes a real master to know how to pull it off. Especially in the context of complicated software requirements.
During my career I've met very few programmers who are capable of doing this well. It's the true art of the profession IMO.
And there's the connection to last.fm :)