Re: java coders are complete morons

2014-12-31 Thread Raul Miller
Nah, you ought to change it to eight years, to match the 8 in java 8, and then replace the reference to Sytem.currentTimeMillis with an abstract time factory so that any user can redefine year length as a class and so that anyone who knows which web site to visit can follow the clear instructions t

Re: java coders are complete morons

2014-12-31 Thread Ted Unangst
On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 02:23, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2014/12/31 00:13, Marc Espie wrote: >> well, jdk 1.7 just stopped building. because one file is >10 years old and >> there is an explicit check for that in the build process. >> >> Just think about it. > > Can't go perpetuating 10-year-ol

Re: java coders are complete morons

2014-12-31 Thread Marc Espie
On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 02:23:03AM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2014/12/31 00:13, Marc Espie wrote: > > well, jdk 1.7 just stopped building. because one file is >10 years old and > > there is an explicit check for that in the build process. > > > > Just think about it. > > Can't go perpetu

Re: java coders are complete morons

2014-12-30 Thread Kenneth Westerback
On 30 December 2014 at 18:13, Marc Espie wrote: > well, jdk 1.7 just stopped building. because one file is >10 years old and > there is an explicit check for that in the build process. > > Just think about it. > > I know 1st year students who are smarter than that. > > This is one of the stupidest

Re: java coders are complete morons

2014-12-30 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2014/12/31 00:13, Marc Espie wrote: > well, jdk 1.7 just stopped building. because one file is >10 years old and > there is an explicit check for that in the build process. > > Just think about it. Can't go perpetuating 10-year-old currencies, that would be terrible! This should be reasonable

Re: java coders are complete morons

2014-12-30 Thread Theo de Raadt
>well, jdk 1.7 just stopped building. because one file is >10 years old and >there is an explicit check for that in the build process. > >Just think about it. > >I know 1st year students who are smarter than that. > >This is one of the stupidest bugs I've seen, on a part with 19100... Conterpoint:

java coders are complete morons

2014-12-30 Thread Marc Espie
well, jdk 1.7 just stopped building. because one file is >10 years old and there is an explicit check for that in the build process. Just think about it. I know 1st year students who are smarter than that. This is one of the stupidest bugs I've seen, on a part with 19100...