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Are those Loebs on Claire's shelf?
I would have expected a schism instead of the reinvention of DVCS.
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I wonder how many people will understand the leftpad joke in 10 years.
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Where does the algorithm for determining what restaurant to go to on date night lie on this chart?
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There was a schism in 2007, when a sect advocating OpenOffice created a fork of Sunday.xlsx and maintained it independently for several months. The efforts to reconcile the conflicting schedules led to the reinvention, within the cells of the spreadsheet, of modern version control.
Attacking complex Excel sheets is a source of most of my income
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Hovertext: In fact, by this standard, the New Testament is the least true of all religious documents.
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The rhyme is and always was stupid. You can fit other months into it seamlessly: "Thirty days hath December, April, May, and November.
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I learned using the "count your knuckles" trick, which I find a _lot_ easier than trying to use that rhyme.
Make a fist and touch your first knuckle (pointer finger, not your thumb) then count off the months. The knuckles have 31 days and the spaces between are 30 except February. When you get to the end of your hand (July), start over with your pointer knuckle again.
You can do the same algorithm in your head pretty easily once you learn the pattern.
Make a fist and touch your first knuckle (pointer finger, not your thumb) then count off the months. The knuckles have 31 days and the spaces between are 30 except February. When you get to the end of your hand (July), start over with your pointer knuckle again.
You can do the same algorithm in your head pretty easily once you learn the pattern.
months are based on the yearly solar/orbit cycle. weeks don't have any basis, right? So Mondays are Mondays because of tradition and good recordkeeping, right? Trippy.
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Simpler: from January to July, inclusive, it alternates between 31 and 30 days, with the obvious exception of February. Then, August to December, inclusive, again it alternates between 31 and 30, no exception this time.
There's a cool mental calculation hack I recently learned for this: If you open the calendar app on your phone or computer, the highest-numbered box along the bottom is equal to the number of days in the month!
At some point, I learned a different way to remember this. Put your fists together, and then start counting across your knuckles and the gaps between them. Knuckle? 31 days. In between? Not 31 days. Thanks to your anatomy, July and August line up correctly, and off you go.
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