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Companies updating their websites (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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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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[–] 47 points 2 years ago (2 children)

At least in Europe the year after the copyright statement has no meaning, and even the copyright statement itself is useless. Since if not stated otherwise, no rights are granted by default.

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    • [–] 41 points 2 years ago (12 children)

    I thought everyone does <?php echo date("Y"); ?>

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    No no, we do

    time_t t = time(NULL);
struct tm tm = *localtime(&t);
tm.tm_year + 1900;

    Everyone writes their web server in plain C, right?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    The cool thing to do now is to write it in Rust, only using the standard library.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    And I hate it. Nice concept, but I don't like neither, the language nor compiler.

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

    It's okay to be wrong

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (4 children)
    • The C compiler, when I parse a &(float) as (long) (it's actually an evil floating point hack to run Quake III on an X86_64 CPU emulated in Scratch running on Spotifys Car Thing) (This would never be possible in Rust)
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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

    std::mem::transmute

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Yes, but

    1. it's unsafe, therefore not really Rust I'd argue
    2. it doesn't look as good
    float Q_rsqrt(float number) {
   long i;
   float x2, y;
   const float threehalfs = 1.5F;

   x2 = number * 0.5F;
   y = number;

   i = * ( long * ) &y;
   i = 0x5f3759df - ( i >> 1 );
   y = * ( float * ) &i;

   y = y * ( threehalfs - ( x2 * y * y ) );
   return y;
}
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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Well, everyone who’s coding their websites is, yeah. Seeing how almost 10% of all websites use Elementor now and are built by people without an understanding of coding concepts, there are probably plenty of websites that don’t output their copyright year dynamically.

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

    Also:

    they: you can find the solution for your problem here

    clicks on the 'here' link

    404

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    This happened at my work with internal docs as we switched from an ancient intranet to a new service that had a ton more features but no backwards compatibility so all the pages got updated to PDFs with helpful links that went nowhere and it caused chaos for like 3 months.

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    • [+] 31 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)
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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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    • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    that's where date('Y') comes in

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