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- Our Government Runs on a 60-Year-Old Coding Language, and Now Its Falling Apart https://onezero.medium.com/our-government-runs-on-a-60-year-old-coding-language-and-now-its-falling-apart-61ec0bc8e121 23 comments
- Reconstructing a lost NES game from 30-year-old source code disks https://gamehistory.org/days-of-thunder-nes-unreleased/ 31 comments
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- Coding as Craft: Going Back to the Old Gym https://cekrem.github.io/posts/coding-as-craft-going-back-to-the-old-gym/ 5 comments practices
- Old box, dumb code, few thousand connections, no big deal https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/05/07/serv/ 15 comments networking , performance
- 82-Year-Old Proves You're Never Too Old to Code https://www.aarp.org/work/working-at-50-plus/info-2018/worlds-oldest-app-developer-fd.html 92 comments learnprogramming
- This 96-year-old woman reviewed every book she read in secret code https://mashable.com/2018/05/28/woman-organized-books-secret-code/#m6varPiZOsqQ 3 comments books
- Teach a 60 year old how to code. https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/5fzuw8/teach_a_60_year_old_how_to_code/ 79 comments learnprogramming
- The old days of coding http://xkcd.com/1755/ 15 comments dotnet
- Not Invented Here: Old Code http://notinventedhe.re/on/2011-11-9 22 comments programming
- Extracting a 19 Year Old Code Execution from WinRAR - Check Point Research https://research.checkpoint.com/extracting-code-execution-from-winrar/ 45 comments netsec
- My new PIN code is my old PIN code https://www.reddit.com/r/crypto/comments/a4lzcd/my_new_pin_code_is_my_old_pin_code/ 14 comments crypto
- 82-Year-Old Japanese Woman Finds Success in Coding https://www.aarp.org/work/working-at-50-plus/info-2018/worlds-oldest-app-developer-fd.html 107 comments programming
- How to I work on code that is well over 10 years old and has next to no documentation? https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/7o88m0/how_to_i_work_on_code_that_is_well_over_10_years/ 8 comments cscareerquestions
- 2014’s JavaScript versus today’s (or: How my old code holds up today) http://ejb.github.io/2016/05/09/how-my-code-has-changed-since-2014.html 17 comments javascript
- Microsoft's top developers prefer old-school coding methods http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9141465/microsoft_s_top_developers_prefer_old_school_coding_methods 90 comments programming
- Duplicate v0.2.9: Easy code duplication for old rust versions https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/j1esd4/duplicate_v029_easy_code_duplication_for_old_rust/ 5 comments rust
- Someone Found a 10-year-old Bitcoin Easter Egg In The Code https://thenextweb.com/news/bitcoin-easter-egg 34 comments cryptocurrency
- Spain cracks King Ferdinand's 500-year-old code http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42931940 12 comments europe
- Coding as Craft: Going Back to the Old Gym https://cekrem.github.io/posts/coding-as-craft-going-back-to-the-old-gym/ 5 comments programming
- Almost 30 year old optimization bug in MSVC causing incorrect code (In specific circumstances) found https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/1096974/msvc-global-optimization-of-program-results-in-inc.html?childtoview=1172202#comment-1172202 19 comments programming
- Pretty eye opening to see how an old school VCS like SCCS (Source Code Control System) works https://docs.oracle.com/cd/e19504-01/802-5880/6i9k05dhp/index.html 7 comments programming
- Google Code Jam 2011 - Qualification Rounds begin when this post is 8 hours old! http://code.google.com/codejam?2011 37 comments programming
- (How old is this code!?) - read the contents of a file into a variable | Perl HowTo http://www.perlhowto.com/read_the_contents_of_a_file_into_a_variable 4 comments perl
- When this post is 2 hours old the Starcraft 2 AI bot making show "Bits of Code - What Makes A Champion Bot" will be live https://eschamp.discourse.group/t/what-makes-a-champion-bot-interview-with-micromachine-creators-raphrr-unusual/58 5 comments programming
- ‘Frozen’ Animation Code Helped Engineers Solve a 62-Year-Old Russian Cold Case https://www.indiewire.com/2021/02/engineers-frozen-animation-code-dyatlov-pass-mystery-1234614083/ 789 comments nottheonion
- School forces 7-year-old girl to spend day in underwear for breaking dress code https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hkt45nwjl 15 comments nottheonion
- How to understand a 20-year old million-line code base (x-post from /r/cpp) https://np.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/4yzl2v/how_to_understand_a_20year_old_millionline_code/ 10 comments programming
- Firefox to convert old YouTube Flash code to HTML5 Video http://www.ghacks.net/2016/01/16/firefox-to-convert-old-youtube-flash-code-to-html5-video/ 9 comments firefox
- Python Beowulf cluster in < 200 lines of code - a good use for any old Raspberry Pi's laying around http://rpiai.com/2015/04/18/python-beowulf-cluster-find-a-use-for-those-computers-that-are-10-years-old/ 18 comments raspberry_pi
- 900-Year-Old Coded Viking Message Carved on Wood Fragment Finally Solved, It Says “Kiss Me” http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/07/norse-rune-code-cracked/ 141 comments science
- The Old New Thing: What's up with the mysterious inc bp in function prologues of 16-bit code? http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2011/03/16/10141735.aspx 9 comments programming
- I wish old games would release the source code so that fans can make fan patches to keep old games alive. None 11 comments opensourcegames
- This 19 year old with developmental disorder knows 12 coding languages and created more apps than we have on our phone http://joshtalks.com/talks/how-a-19-year-old-visionary-founder-and-dropout-is-using-technology-to-solve-a-rejected-problem/ 4 comments india
- Help FBI solve a decade old open murder case by cracking the code. http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2011/march/cryptanalysis_032911/cryptanalysis_032911 2 comments reddit.com
- There’s a reason that programmers always want to throw away old code and start over: they think the old code is a mess. They are probably wrong. The reason that they think the old code is a mess is because of a cardinal, fundamental law of programming: It’s harder to read code than to write it. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/ 1043 comments programming
- FBI asks for those with mad code-breaking skillz to help to crack mystery code in 12-year-old murder case http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/30/murder_case_mystery_code_baffles_fbi/ 8 comments reddit.com
- Code::Blocks last "stable release" was 18 months ago according to Wikipedia and it's own website. But in sourceforge it seems to be getting updated every day many times. Can you explain to me this situation? Should we use Code::Blocks or is it too old and not mantained enough? https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/cd5iro/codeblocks_last_stable_release_was_18_months_ago/ 8 comments learnprogramming
- Israel Folau has been found guilty of a "high level breach" of Rugby Australia's player code of conduct after he said "hell awaits" gay people in a social media post. A three-person panel who presided over his hearing will now consider what punishment the 30-year-old will face. https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/48184011 5 comments worldnews
- Hey im a 14 year old kid and i want to get good at coding but i dont know where to start it seems to be very hard It could be awesome if anyone could help :) https://www.reddit.com/r/java/comments/a2en4p/beware_the_attach_api/ 38 comments coding
- We made a new reddit fork called saidit.net, trying to bring back the spirit of old reddit when Aaron Swartz was still around. It loads in 0.096s, has embedded IRC chat, new voting system, RES features being made native, open source code, night/day mode, and more. What does /r/webdev think? https://saidit.net/ 7 comments webdev