2 ms·
>First, it'd make learning about time as a programmer much easier Ok let's change how everybody thinks about time so that programmers have an easier time! >Bu
by leppr 10y ago
>First, it'd make learning about time as a programmer much easier
Ok let's change how everybody thinks about time so that programmers have an easier time!
>But more future facing...what are we going to do when we have colonies on the moon and Mars?
IMO this is probably only until then that it'll start to make sense, since we may be living in buried/heavily radiation shielded habitats without any sunlight, there wouldn't be anything preventing the whole planet from having a synchronized, artificial, day/night schedule.
- danso 10y agoI don't see programmers being a special profession. Time affects us all, and it's a complex thing that's worth spending time contemplating, and I really don't think the math is hard, if there is even much math. Though admittedly, I do enjoy such clusterfucks as this: http://www.salon.com/2013/06/28/alec_baldwin_deletes_twitter_account_after_meltdown/ http://www.salon.com/2013/06/28/alec_baldwin_deletes_twitter...