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I remember 1e+9 because it shifted a log file over by 1 character. And less than a week later I was out of a job (travel industry).
by sector777 9y ago
I remember 1e+9 because it shifted a log file over by 1 character. And less than a week later I was out of a job (travel industry).
- tqkxzugoaupvwqr 9y agoAre these events related to each other?
- mulmen 9y agoWas that a coincidence? Please don't leave us hanging.
- profmonocle 9y ago1 billion Unix time was September 8, 2001.
- isostatic 9y agoSep 9th actually. 0146 GMT.
- ipince 9y agoDon't you see? Whether one event led to another is not important. We don't need to know for sure. It's like the end of Inception.
- sector777 9y agoLog file break/fix did not result in termination. But I probably wouldn't have remembered the former if it weren't for the latter.
- ceautery 9y agoI've conjectured before that 9-11 happenening so close to the epoch flip was deliberate, as a hint that middle-east radicals weren't really disorganized, saber-wielding incompetents as Hollywood portrayed them.