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Thanks. I put a lot of thought into it.
"Some days I sets and thinks and some days I jest sets."
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
modified 20-Mar-15 10:31am.
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14-3-15?
Weird American, or is that a tautology?
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Call it weird if you like, but in the USA today's date is written 3-14-15. Do you get it now?
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Cornelius Henning wrote: Do you get it now? I never didn't get it, get it?
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Ok, I got it!
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3-14-16 is a closer approximation...
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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True! We must remember to do this all again in a year!
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Cornelius Henning wrote: in the USA today's date is written 3-14-15
No, it isn't; it's 2015-03-14 .
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Sander Rossel wrote: tautology
I had to look that up! (both references)
I suppose it is culture specific, meaning that except for US, there will be no Pi day...ever.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Every year has an 3-14 15 and an 6-28 3:18:53 .
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PIEBALDconsult wrote:
Every year has an 3-14 15 and
an 6-28 3:18:53 .
This is the best reason that I have seen for replacing pi with tau.
[Other than the very simple cases mentioned by the tau enthusiasts, replacing pi with tau would require adding factors to many equations.]
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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As a developer you should know that culture specific dates are a hassle
You either don't format your dates, in which case the customer is going to complain that his dates are formatted wrong, or you do, but you still do it wrong and now all your parse methods throw exceptions too
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You either don't format your dates...or have only US clients who are used to it being 'wrong'.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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kmoorevs wrote: except for US, there will be no Pi day...ever.
You obviously missed the news that we're adding an extra day to April this year.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Pardon my ignorance, but is this Tau in any way related to the Tau Te Ching?
"Confront the difficult while it is still easy;
Accomplish the great tasks by a series of small acts."
-- The Tao Te Ching
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Are you saying it's a cheap Chinese knock-off of a Greek letter?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'm not saying nuttin'. Was just asking!
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They'd probably get it wrong, anyway.
Not that it would matter -- Chinese is all Greek, to me.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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As in "tau pies are better than one"?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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A Pi in the hand is worth Tau in the bush?
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It's also Albert Einstein's birthday.
/ravi
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