I tried setting my birthday to an old age to see if it would work, but I was stopped by a message that said "Birthday must be after 1920/01/01". According to  1.9 million people in the U.S. lived to 90. This number has nearly tripled since 1980.  Shouldn't we have a more realistic age cap (hence even more), like 107?
There is a restriction on setting your birthday:     Oops! There was a problem updating your profile:   - Birthday must be after 1920/01/01   I realize the number of 90 year old users is small, but shouldn't the restriction be a bit more relaxed, such as larger than any ?  Either 120 or 150 seems appropriate.  For example, my grandfather turns 90 next year (and just barely misses the current cutoff), but I can't imagine he's the only one around that age who is computer literate and still active enough to be interested in (the increasingly broad range of) SE sites.  I don't think he has contributed yet (mostly because of the comment restriction, I'd see him commenting before asking or answering), but I have emailed him with links that I know he's read.  Incidentally, the error message is wrong: birthday must be after 1919/12/31 and using the next day is accepted.
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One example that springs to mind is a service, that wakes up at intervals, performs some task, and then sleeps for a long time. In this case, it may be a good idea to force a collect to prevent the soon-to-be-idle process from holding on to more memory than needed.   Are there any other cases where it is acceptable to call GC.Collect? Salesforce REST API authentication? I feel like this should be really easy to do, but I can't find anything about it on the web. Is there a way, through either javascript or a java web servlet, to skip the subsequent authentication?  We are trying to use the REST Api in production, but the problem is, that each time you refresh the page in javascript, or delete the cookies in java, you have to login again to salesforce.  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