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And maybe I should bring a 24-hour clock with me.
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Hands? On a clock? So last century!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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That was the first "technical" question I was asked, a few years back.
My immediate response was "Oh, so you make software for analysing clock displays, too? I thought you specialised in [product type]", and waited for a response before even trying to work out the answer.
Two questions (and two smart-@rse replies shrouded in angelic innocence) later, he put the piece of paper aside, and started talking about their product.
Thanks for reminding me of a good day!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I didn't know programmers have to make clocks too. Or perhaps at least give answers for clock calculus.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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An older clock problem, of the age of pendulum clocks, aka some form of 'grandfather clock':
A clock takes five seconds to strike five. How many seconds does it take to strike six?
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Tell him that your iWatch has a digital face.
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7.5 degrees?
At 3:00, the hour hand is at 3 and the minute hand is at 12.
At 4:00, the hour hand is at 4 and the minute hand is at 12.
At 3:15, the hour hand is one quarter of the way after 3 and the minute hand is at 3.
One arc of one hour is 1/12 of 360 degrees or 30 degrees.
One quarter of an hour is 7.5 degrees.
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OK, that is possibly the coolest thing I've seen this year.
Those guys have way, way WAY too much time on their hands.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I'm on now . 
நெஞ்சு பொறுக்கு திலையே-இந்த
நிலைகெட்ட மனிதரை நினைந்துவிட்டால்
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There's a speaker icon in the upper-left corner.
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So next year we'll have Space Invaders on CP? 
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No! You can't shoot Bob! 
TTFN - Kent
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I was thinking more in the line of QA... 
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THAT I can get behind! 
TTFN - Kent
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What are you doing outside of the News forum anyway? Did Chris forget to lock your cage? 
Don't worry, we're mostly good people out here.
Welcome to the outside world
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 Yikes! I better head back before Chris notices.
TTFN - Kent
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Byeee mythical beast of CP! It was good to have you here for three posts
And I'm honored they were all replies to my posts 
(Of course saying anything else in the lounge, including a reply to this message, would kind of undo the effect...)
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No, but Bob can shoot noobs.
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We could shoot a certain stack-of-something icon though 
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Don't be silly! CP has real developers!
Halo.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Egads! I remember playing Space Invaders on smart (at that time) HP terminals. I forget the model, but it had a Z-80 CPU inside the box, and (I think) a pair of cassette tape readers on the front panel; it may have been a single drive. I had a tape of the program, which hijacked the native programming of the terminal and presented the game onscreen without forwarding any of the keystrokes to the timeshared minicomputer I was connected to for daily work.
I had another tape that, when inserted in the terminal drive, executed a small program which displayed the two-character Master Security Code for the host system on the front panel LEDs of the host mini-computer in ASCII format; it actually stored the value in the S-register, and a toggle switch on the system panel displayed the register. They should never have let me read the manual. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Way cool!
Will Rogers never met me.
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