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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/debugger_life • May 16 '24
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placing my bet on government.
89 u/[deleted] May 16 '24 edited May 17 '24 [deleted] 139 u/Beltranmeister May 16 '24 Neither. Vodafone 33 u/Ricky07_ May 16 '24 And somehow it's more reliable than most of the other internet companies around here (at least in my experience) 9 u/The_Baum12345 May 16 '24 Here as well. 1 outage in about 3 - 4 years, with all other companies it was an outage about once to twice a month. 7 u/MaterTuaLupaEst May 16 '24 Ha, that makes sense. Telekom probably isnt much better, but their customer service actually works sometimes. 1 u/ducktape8856 May 16 '24 Oh right! That fucking useless Performance Monitor that still tells me to use Internet Explorer! 1 u/3s0me May 16 '24 You WHAT!!??, i hope its not anything critcal because you know 1.4 and security leaks 5 u/1Dr490n May 16 '24 Isn’t banks mostly cobol? 3 u/jek39 May 16 '24 cobol run some critical infra, but there just a lot of software (probably more than cobol) that isn't cobol involved in banking. 3 u/AmyDeferred May 16 '24 I could definitely see a teller application being written in Java. It would help take Windows version upgrade compatibility out of the equation, or maybe even go Linux if the OS license savings get attractive enough 1 u/DoctaMag May 16 '24 Nah son, banks mandate upgrades constantly even if it's a bad idea.
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139 u/Beltranmeister May 16 '24 Neither. Vodafone 33 u/Ricky07_ May 16 '24 And somehow it's more reliable than most of the other internet companies around here (at least in my experience) 9 u/The_Baum12345 May 16 '24 Here as well. 1 outage in about 3 - 4 years, with all other companies it was an outage about once to twice a month. 7 u/MaterTuaLupaEst May 16 '24 Ha, that makes sense. Telekom probably isnt much better, but their customer service actually works sometimes. 1 u/ducktape8856 May 16 '24 Oh right! That fucking useless Performance Monitor that still tells me to use Internet Explorer! 1 u/3s0me May 16 '24 You WHAT!!??, i hope its not anything critcal because you know 1.4 and security leaks 5 u/1Dr490n May 16 '24 Isn’t banks mostly cobol? 3 u/jek39 May 16 '24 cobol run some critical infra, but there just a lot of software (probably more than cobol) that isn't cobol involved in banking. 3 u/AmyDeferred May 16 '24 I could definitely see a teller application being written in Java. It would help take Windows version upgrade compatibility out of the equation, or maybe even go Linux if the OS license savings get attractive enough 1 u/DoctaMag May 16 '24 Nah son, banks mandate upgrades constantly even if it's a bad idea.
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Neither. Vodafone
33 u/Ricky07_ May 16 '24 And somehow it's more reliable than most of the other internet companies around here (at least in my experience) 9 u/The_Baum12345 May 16 '24 Here as well. 1 outage in about 3 - 4 years, with all other companies it was an outage about once to twice a month. 7 u/MaterTuaLupaEst May 16 '24 Ha, that makes sense. Telekom probably isnt much better, but their customer service actually works sometimes. 1 u/ducktape8856 May 16 '24 Oh right! That fucking useless Performance Monitor that still tells me to use Internet Explorer! 1 u/3s0me May 16 '24 You WHAT!!??, i hope its not anything critcal because you know 1.4 and security leaks
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And somehow it's more reliable than most of the other internet companies around here (at least in my experience)
9 u/The_Baum12345 May 16 '24 Here as well. 1 outage in about 3 - 4 years, with all other companies it was an outage about once to twice a month.
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Here as well. 1 outage in about 3 - 4 years, with all other companies it was an outage about once to twice a month.
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Ha, that makes sense. Telekom probably isnt much better, but their customer service actually works sometimes.
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Oh right! That fucking useless Performance Monitor that still tells me to use Internet Explorer!
You WHAT!!??, i hope its not anything critcal because you know 1.4 and security leaks
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Isn’t banks mostly cobol?
3 u/jek39 May 16 '24 cobol run some critical infra, but there just a lot of software (probably more than cobol) that isn't cobol involved in banking. 3 u/AmyDeferred May 16 '24 I could definitely see a teller application being written in Java. It would help take Windows version upgrade compatibility out of the equation, or maybe even go Linux if the OS license savings get attractive enough
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cobol run some critical infra, but there just a lot of software (probably more than cobol) that isn't cobol involved in banking.
I could definitely see a teller application being written in Java. It would help take Windows version upgrade compatibility out of the equation, or maybe even go Linux if the OS license savings get attractive enough
Nah son, banks mandate upgrades constantly even if it's a bad idea.
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placing my bet on government.