|
@danluu | |||||
|
A system for coordinating U.S. nuclear weapons moved off of 8-inch floppies earlier this year, 2 years late.
Coincidentally, the original deadline was around when Google Cloud's product roadmap PM said that 1 year deprecation should be enough for anyone.
gao.gov/assets/680/677… pic.twitter.com/owJ40GuJzT
|
||||||
|
||||||
|
Dan Luu
@danluu
|
15. svi 2017. |
|
#1 story on HN: Google kills "Cloud Prediction" API
Response from Googler: it's fine because you can switch to a different API
😂 pic.twitter.com/6Md5wqplk0
|
||
|
|
||
|
Dan Luu
@danluu
|
15. svi 2017. |
|
Meanwhile, in the enterprise world, I still regularly see VAX, RS/6000, and DOS 6.22 boxes in use, as well as the occasional PDP.
|
||
|
|
||
|
Dan Luu
@danluu
|
15. svi 2017. |
|
GCP's "product roadmap project manager" doubles down on this: one year ought to be enough for anybody! pic.twitter.com/PNnFrhgnAM
|
||
|
|
||
|
Dan Luu
@danluu
|
15. svi 2017. |
|
Meanwhile, on DEC alum board, someone looks for PDP11 troubleshooter.
PDP11 released 47 years ago, succeeded by VAX 7 years later. pic.twitter.com/A85lkYhjI4
|
||
|
|
||
|
Dirk Jonker
@dajonker
|
7. pro |
|
Software people making sure they have a future by demanding continuous development of software everywhere
|
||
|
|
||