“Could the DOOM marine actually carry all those weapons while running around?” - Adam and Jamie couldn’t manage it, but they brought in someone who could.
“Could the DOOM marine actually carry all those weapons while running around?” - Adam and Jamie couldn’t manage it, but they brought in someone who could.
That is essentially what the “Post-Open Source” idea is trying to do.
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One from JWZ: mysqldump writes out a date that it cannot parse (and more)
Fourth panel from Mark Pilgrim:
Consulship of Caesar and Bibulus - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/59_BC lists some options of how it would be called in various places
Just be careful naming your function “stdout()” or things could get weird…
And then notice the spelling error.
Same with The End of Eternity - they can travel to different times at which the machine existed.
In fact, isn’t it a bit similar with the only ‘real’ possibility of time travel - you create a wormhole and take one end on a relativistic journey to create a time difference between the ends, but the only possible travel is between the two ends that you have created.
Even simpler than that - set your house to heat or cool based on the timing of the cheap energy (as explained by Technology Connections)
Is that supported in any common operating systems?
The only downside of being in GMT is that programmers here almost never notice their timezone bugs when developing systems in the winter.
Still, avoiding a whole other class of bugs would be nice.
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Unix timestamp is always in UTC
Careful with the exact phrasing here - while the epoch was at midnight in GMT, the time from which time_t is measured also exists in other timezones.
there are 24 time zones
Cunningham’s law says that this will generate some discussion in the replies!
So they saved the cost of paying Japan to launch one more HTV mission, and all it’s going to cost is whatever this guy receives? It just seems out of character for NASA to leave things to chance like that.
What they mean is that the variable names and function names are documentation.
For example changing “for( i in getList() )” to “for( patient in getTodaysAppointments() )” is giving the reader more information that might negate the need for a comment.