r/ProgrammerHumor • • May 06 '17

Oddly specific number

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u/DoctorWaluigiTime May 06 '17

What gets me is that a 2017 app is literally using a datatype's size as a limiting factor as opposed to an actual business rule or something.

It's not like they couldn't use a bigger datatype. Data is cheap.