alt Hacker NewsThis sounds interesting, but I wonder who this message needs to be directed to? As a dev who doesn't work there, I can't just go "fix 2038 for the post office." Are you encouraging devs like me to go try to get themselves hired into these positions now, and advocate allocating resources to fix these problems? Are you trying to tell the higher-ups at these places about a problem they might not know about?
I'm not sure! The problem might need to be addressed from lots of different directions; university coursework, companies and organizations depending on these systems paying more and hiring more people, more devs getting into these jobs, a thinktank to sit down and think through how best to address the problem, government regulation, etc. I'm not sure any one thing is going to deal with this, it's such a massive issue.