In defense of 'flicks' (or how I learned to stop worrying and love 705600000)
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Re: In defense of 'flicks' (or how I learned to stop worrying and love 705600000)
#2Computer scientists with a physics background might recognize the syncing problem to the challenge of describing simultaneous events.
Re: In defense of 'flicks' (or how I learned to stop worrying and love 705600000)
#3Did you leave that unbalanced paren in the [Hacker News] title just to drive Lisp users mad? Edit: Thanks for the fix!
Re: In defense of 'flicks' (or how I learned to stop worrying and love 705600000)
#4The article's leap year rules seem wrong. Pretty sure year 2000 did have a leap day, but 1900 didn't.
Re: In defense of 'flicks' (or how I learned to stop worrying and love 705600000)
#5The article's leap year rules seem wrong. Pretty sure year 2000 did have a leap day, but 1900 didn't.
>Every 4 years, we get an extra day at the end of February, unless the year is divisible by 400 (there was no leap day in the year 2000).
The article has it backwards. Years divisible by 400 get leap days, others divisible by 100 do not.
Re: In defense of 'flicks' (or how I learned to stop worrying and love 705600000)
#6Did you leave that unbalanced paren in the [Hacker News] title just to drive Lisp users mad? Edit: Thanks for the fix!
Fixed, thanks.
Re: In defense of 'flicks' (or how I learned to stop worrying and love 705600000)
#7The article's leap year rules seem wrong. Pretty sure year 2000 did have a leap day, but 1900 didn't.
Yep. The algorithm is: there is a leap day for every year divisible by 4, unless the year is also divisible by 100. But if the year is divisible by 400, then there is a still leap day.
Re: In defense of 'flicks' (or how I learned to stop worrying and love 705600000)
#8Good article, with a couple of minor errors:
"Audio recorded at 44100khz" should be 44.100 kHz or 44100 Hz.
"there was no leap day in the year 2000" - false. 2000 is divisible by both 400 and 100, so it was a leap year.
Re: In defense of 'flicks' (or how I learned to stop worrying and love 705600000)
#9The article's leap year rules seem wrong. Pretty sure year 2000 did have a leap day, but 1900 didn't.
You are correct! I will fix that
Re: In defense of 'flicks' (or how I learned to stop worrying and love 705600000)
#10Good article, with a couple of minor errors: "Audio recorded at 44100khz" should be 44.100 kHz or 44100 Hz. "there was no leap day in the year 2000" - false. 2000 is divisible by both 400 and 100, so it was a leap year.
fixed, thank you!