The perils of living on a spinning oblate sphere strike again! Software would be so much simpler on a ringworld ...
This is due mainly to our tilt, not our sphere-ness
Infinite loop in macOS Night Shift in the summer near the Arctic Circle
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#12now that's a great test case that could easily be tested using mocks.
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#13The capitalization in the title made me originally parse this as about Apple's former headquarters (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Campus).
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#14'Falsehoods programmers believe about time: - Every day has a sunrise and a sunset'
Falsehoods programmers believe about time:
The fundamental one is: "I'm so very clever, and I've dealt with dates my whole conscious life, I can probably think of all of the edge cases off the top of my head!"
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#17Am I the only person who is impressed with this person's debugging skill?
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#18now that's a great test case that could easily be tested using mocks.
My favorite part of "To the Moon and Back" is when the NASA administrator is explaining to Congress that the three astronauts on board Apollo 1 died because "We weren't creative enough to imagine this could happen."
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#19'Falsehoods programmers believe about time: - Every day has a sunrise and a sunset'
Falsehoods programmers believe about time: The fundamental one is: "I'm so very clever, and I've dealt with dates my whole conscious life, I can probably think of all of the edge cases off the top of my head!"
I think you're right, but that the tone I read in your words would prevent people from improving.
Rather than "I'm so clever" it is more "this isn't complicated". One can argue they mean the same thing, but I'd say they mean different things if comparing to an outside scale. The solution to thinking you're so clever is to reduce your arrogance, but the solution to thinking problems are simple is to stop assuming any problem is simple.
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#20'Falsehoods programmers believe about time: - Every day has a sunrise and a sunset'
Falsehoods programmers believe about time: The fundamental one is: "I'm so very clever, and I've dealt with dates my whole conscious life, I can probably think of all of the edge cases off the top of my head!"
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