me (explaining to a colleague how particular piece of my feature works): so, if remote server clock is fast then their time stamp would look for us as if the message came from the future, so we need to account for that ( Read more... )

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Today in my LJ: 1,999 comments received

Was answering to two surveys today. One - enclosed into BBC's blu-ray - had a question "What do you think of Blu-ray DVD players" and answers:

1. Never heard of it
2. Plan to buy one within a year
3. Plan to buy one eventually
4. Don't plan to buy one

It didn't have an option "Own one". So I sent the survey into the shredder, reasoning that people who put such ( Read more... )

while I wasn't completely awake got fooled by this communique.

my favorite apple cultivar (McIntosh, lol) is on sale in the closest Safeway.
nom-nom-nom...

Today I was going to make one decision in which there were two actions to take and both of them had positive and negative effects, so I could not decide easily. To make matters worse there was a time pressure - this is something which should be taken care of this afternoon. Well, I decided to use a coin, setting tails to one action and heads to ( Read more... )

Zappos ships stuff so fast, it is just amazing. We came up with idea that they just send you all the inventory all the time and just cancel it before it hits your home, so the mail carrier returns it back. Thus if you make a purchase then your shoes are on the way already and all they have to do is not canceling it.

testing for VARIANT being a string type (array and all):

(pVar->vt & VT_LPWSTR) == VT_LPWSTR

I don't normally read Dilbert (find it too depressing), but this one cracked me up.

Prints solution to following cryptarithm: BARREL+BROOMS=SHOVELS

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