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3rd January 2008 - Link Blog

Do not treat Flickr photo IDs as integers (via) “The good news is, Flickr reached photo number 2147483647 yesterday. Go Flickr! The bad news is that number 2147483647 is the limit for signed integer data type.”

Posted 3rd January 2008 at 10:46 pm

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