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I had a very short term contract last year in a place where the development manager of all people could not get the core product working on his desktop.
When I suggested it was his windows 7 machine he laughed at me, 30 minutes later I found a block of code that discriminated between NT and XP, if it was neither it failed to start up.
It is tulip like that that keeps us in jobs.
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...is....is that a joke?Originally posted by VectraMan View PostIt's a bit of a moot point as no version of Windows comes with Java and nobody ever installs it.
The example happens to be in Java, but I think it's somewhat clear that there will be a myriad of other examples in a multitude of languages and implementations.
Plus, Java, sadly, is ******* everywhere.
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It's a bit of a moot point as no version of Windows comes with Java and nobody ever installs it.
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Hey, he optimised away one string comparison and a Boolean OR! I think we can all agree thatOriginally posted by vwdan View PostAnd this, folks, is why us infrastructure engineers blame programmers for everything.
(And also laugh at threads on here where they struggle with basic OS tasks)
would have been an egregious waste of system resourcesCode:if (os.equals("Windows 95") || os.equals("Windows 98") || os.equals("Windows Me"))
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And this, folks, is why us infrastructure engineers blame programmers for everything.
(And also laugh at threads on here where they struggle with basic OS tasks)
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https://searchcode.com/?q=version.st...22Windows+9%22Code:String os = System.getProperty("os.name"); if (os.startsWith("Windows 9") || os.equals("Windows Me")) { throw new RuntimeException("This provider is not supported on this version of Windows"); }
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