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Thursday, January 12, 2017

Just don’t use version numbers

This post on semantic versioning reminded me that we’re making a future in which Ubuntu 01.04 will be newer than Ubuntu 99.10.

This is fine.

posted by Graham at 10:48

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Please can we call it “The Year 2100 Problem”?

Comment by Woo — 2017-01-17 @ 22:55

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