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“Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!” - P. Venkman
This is often a proxy for a different question.
Worked on a project where devices just magically froze, but only during the month of February!
Turned out the people who had written the firmware had decided to do their own time math to save space and had put in an exception in the code for leap year values. Except instead of February 29th, it kicked in for the whole month. And the math was wrong so you ended up with negative values.
The product was due for launch in March of that year and was headed to manufacturing. It was by sheer luck that someone ran a test on February 1st and caught the problem.
Don’t mess with time in code, kids.
Wait till they find out what software ‘architects’ really do.
If my grade school art teacher was correct, they could take some red cranberry juice and add some yellow lemon juice to get the same result.
Rode in a car with a full tinted glass roof once. Everybody’s brains were boiling.
Looking at that picture, all I see is sunburn, heatstroke, and headache.
“… As a great CEO…”
Ignore them. Send a pull request with the full source of Arch Linux.
The year is 2245. The heirs finally locate a working, antique reader that can handle the ancient USB key, hoping to find great-great-grandpa’s crypto-wallet or the pin-code to a long-lost Maltese bank account.
Instead, they find a 4-bit, VGA-quality scan of Miss October.
Little Bobby Tables says hi.