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Marc Clifton wrote: Now: 14,819,111 members
And probably almost 100,000 of those aren't spammers or key-mashing bot-trolls.
"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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I consider myself young, but I also remember that I had the best PC in school with a Pentium II and 500 GB storage, a real beast!
It wasn't hard to have the best PC back then, most people didn't even own one or had one PC for the entire family (making it more of a FC I guess).
That said, I didn't step onto the stage until Windows 95, I was 7 or 8 years old at the time
On CP, I think I signed up when there were already 10,000,000 members and that was ten years ago
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Sander Rossel wrote: I think I signed up when there were already 10,000,000 members
Nope, you were "Member 7605910", and signed up about two years after I did ... the member homepage tells you all this.
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So it does! I was only off by 2,500,000
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That's close enough for government work!
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I joined just before we reached 200,000 members way back in the first decade of this millennium.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Is someone who writes horror movies a ghost writer?
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Do they format their stories in JaSON[^]?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Such ideas are often spooken about in a spirited yet crypt-ic manner, and then, intern, buried in the archives.
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Dunno, I'll ask my mummy!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. Mark Twain
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Prolly someone with "zombie in your head".
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I Kuntz reply mon, ah not be King but I do Love 'te craft...
Software Zen: delete this;
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Not if he's been encrypted...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Surely it's the decrypted ones you need to worry about...
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- Homer
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Hi,
Has anyone else done this, looked at a bit of code written many moons ago and thought "How the did I do that, why did I do that?" I was just hunting around for a standards doc to check something when I found an old C# answer to someones homework I might have written. I think the question was about using an array to store and calcualte Fibbonanci numbers (1+1=2, 2+1=3, etc) the answer was using no arrays and would only got 93. Does anyone recongnise this:
double sqrt5 = Math.Sqrt(5);
double phi = (sqrt5 + 1) / 2;
return Convert.ToUInt64((1 / sqrt5) * Math.Pow(phi, n));
It doesn't resemble my code.
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Google does: series - Fibonacci in C# | DaniWeb[^]
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Quote: Has anyone else done this, looked at a bit of code written many moons ago and thought "How the 🐘 did I do that, why did I do that?" Forget many moons ago; it's happened the next day after writing code despite having had too much wine.
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It's a variation of Binet's formula - assuming Convert.ToUInt64 rounds rather than truncates:
Fibonacci number - Wikipedia[^]
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As per Wikipedia:
The main advantage of a decimal time system is that, since the base used to divide the time is the same as the one used to represent it, the whole time representation can be handled as a single string. Therefore, it becomes simpler to interpret a timestamp and to perform conversions. For instance, 1:23:45 is 1 decimal hour and 23 decimal minutes and 45 decimal seconds, or 1.2345 decimal hours, or 123.45 decimal minutes or 12345 decimal seconds; 3 hours is 300 minutes or 30,000 seconds. This property also makes it straightforward to represent a timestamp as a fractional day, so that 2021-04-06.54321 can be interpreted as five decimal hours and 43 decimal minutes and 21 decimal seconds after the start of that day, or a fraction of 0.54321 (54.321%) through that day (which is shortly after traditional 13:00). It also adjusts well to digital time representation using epochs, in that the internal time representation can be used directly both for computation and for user-facing display.
Decimal time - Wikipedia[^]
Decimal calendar - Wikipedia[^]
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Or ... How Do 'Star Trek' Stardates Work?[^] which would be a lot easier to push to some segments of the population ...
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More proof that "good enough" is.
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So, how do we digitize military time:
"Mickey's big hand is between the 10 and 11 and his little hand is on the 6?"
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Easy. Like everything else in the army, do it by threes.
Trinary time!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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