real story;
string sender;
sender = "Sergio Filho";
Boss: If we let that field as a Long integer, it will support the records amount we need?
Programmer: Oh, yeah. The long type is very large. Just to point out: on Date classes, Java uses long integer to store the number of milliseconds from 1970-01-01 till now and it's far from overflow...
Boss: I'm talking about long integer, not about date type!
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