Is that really true? I did keep reading the entire piece. I think they're often interesting and can contain nuggets of wisdom or insight. Or sometimes they're just funny. When I meet someone who worked on something interesting, I often start trying to pry stories like this post out of them.
I wonder how many API users needed the attribute to be an integer (instead of just treating it as an opaque handle string), but didn't mind the integer turning negative
> No-one really likes engineering war stories
Is that really true? I did keep reading the entire piece. I think they're often interesting and can contain nuggets of wisdom or insight. Or sometimes they're just funny. When I meet someone who worked on something interesting, I often start trying to pry stories like this post out of them.
Everyone likes engineering war stories!!! Never heard of an engineer who didn’t.
I wonder how many API users needed the attribute to be an integer (instead of just treating it as an opaque handle string), but didn't mind the integer turning negative
can't wait for solutions of a similar nature around 2038-01-19
a free 68 more years!
(hopefully nobody optimized for the 1 signed bit when allocating memory tho)