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by kristianp 7y ago
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- dang 7y agoI added it. In a way it's dodgy though, because SA isn't providing the original article or even a photo of it. This is just a single-paragraph quote, and they've milked that cow before: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/1jym5d/in_the_scientific_american_of_1863_its_claimed/ https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/1jym5d/in_the_s..., which I ran across while failing to track down the original article.
- _bxg1 7y agoYou mean this isn't the original web page? :)
- earthboundkid 7y agoWhen I worked for The Atlantic, I learned that Django/MySQL was not made to work for dates in the 1850s... I forget what the exact nature of the bug was, but you had to be careful which date class you were using because some can’t go past 1900.
- erik_seaberg 7y agoI'll always remember discovering that from_unixtime(-1) would crash MySQL.
- ars 7y agoPerhaps use the link posted by: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23075544 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23075544 instead.
- dang 7y agoThanks! That's maybe not readable enough to be the primary URL but I've pinned that comment to the top.