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Yeah I always feel like a jerk when people open tickets in the summer saying “Please do this at #:## EST” and I have to reply “thanks for providing a time but it’s currently EDT in NYC. Is that what you meant?”
No reason to be snarky with people. They mean whatever time it currently is or will be.
If they copied that date from some automated system it might as well be any of these.
Humans usually say “New York time”.
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If we tried to get these thing 100% right we'd not have time for anything else. Punting is pragmatic.
You're absolutely right that "100% right" is an unreasonable standard. I submit that knowing that there are places on the planet where, at times, the sun doesn't set, however, is a reasonable thing to expect of someone who's made it far enough in life to be writing code (or testing it! How did this pass QA?) for Apple . f.lux gets it right if I set my zip to Barrow, AK. Why can't Apple, with how many orders of magnit…
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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…
My favorite incorrect fact is that there are 24 timezones. In fact, the number of offsets from UTC fluctuates throughout the year (at least last I worked on scheduling in 2012. Back then it was either 39 or 40 depending on DST)
This is a beautiful example of the importance of diversity on a team. I have no idea how diverse the team is and I am not speaking of racial or sex diversity... this is the core of the discussion, having people with varying life experiences prevent obvious bugs like this or innovative ideas that no one person could think about. This is a fun bug
But yeah, diversity would have helped.
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Wot, what's the false case?
Some cultures end the day at (wait for it...) sunset. And now we're back to the original problem.
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Wot, what's the false case?
DST. Some countries (Brazil) switch over at midnight instead of 2:00 am. One day of the year has no midnight.
This is a beautiful example of the importance of diversity on a team. I have no idea how diverse the team is and I am not speaking of racial or sex diversity... this is the core of the discussion, having people with varying life experiences prevent obvious bugs like this or innovative ideas that no one person could think about. This is a fun bug
My thinking was rather that they made an assumption. Which is a much simpler explanation because people make faulty assumptions every day. But yeah, diversity would have helped.
This is a beautiful example of the importance of diversity on a team. I have no idea how diverse the team is and I am not speaking of racial or sex diversity... this is the core of the discussion, having people with varying life experiences prevent obvious bugs like this or innovative ideas that no one person could think about. This is a fun bug
I was about to wonder how racial and sex diversity plays into a program running into an infinite loop.
Has anyone ever determined how many times you have to drive around Infinite Loop before Apple Security calls the police on you?
I had a friend who once drove around a traffic circle as many times as he could. He got up to 39 times before a police officer pulled him over. Does anybody know if there is a law on that?
This is a beautiful example of the importance of diversity on a team. I have no idea how diverse the team is and I am not speaking of racial or sex diversity... this is the core of the discussion, having people with varying life experiences prevent obvious bugs like this or innovative ideas that no one person could think about. This is a fun bug
Edit: Which is to say that a male with fair hair and skin and a university education wouldn’t qualify as diverse in most contemporary conceptions of diverse, despite a likely underlying diversity of culture and experience.