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Companies updating their websites (sopuli.xyz)
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Meme transcription [Kid drowning in pool]

In the background a person plays with a kid in the pool. The person is labeled “Companies updating their website”. The kid is labeled “The company logo”.

In the foreground a kid seems to be drowning. It is labeled “Useful information”.

In a second panel a skeleton sits at the bottom of the pool. It is labeled “The copyright year”

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[–] 23 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Tangentially related, I remember at one of my jobs being tasked (several years in a row) with updating the copyright year in all our source files' headers.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    it's probably a red flag if your website can't do currentYear() in the footer.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    that's actually an anti-pattern. the purpose if a copyright notice is not to declare the current year to each visitor, fyi.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    Yes, it's actually to notify people who aren't part of countries with membership to the WTO of the first available year of public declaration of distribution without restriction, however, putting "1997" on your website makes it look old so people put current year to make it look new.

    It's only legally distinct in Aruba, Eritrea, Kiribati, Micronesia, North Korea etc... so it's almost entirely useless.

    I meant it's a red flag if someone can't spin up the code and is making an intern change it by hand every year.

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