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"Falsehoods programmers believe about X" articles inevitably become a discussion about niche anthropology facts. No programmer has ever cared about Lady Day wh
by dahfizz 4y ago
"Falsehoods programmers believe about X" articles inevitably become a discussion about niche anthropology facts.
No programmer has ever cared about Lady Day when writing a program. And if they did, by definition, they would understand it's significance.
- saalweachter 4y agoThe point of these "falsehoods" threads is that programmers may not care about these niche anthropology facts, but users may care a lot. It's not crazy to think that a user may, say, want to create a database of historical records, like when people were born, married or buried. Now I want to find out the age people were when married... suddenly, the existence of Lady Day and the time and place the dates were recorded become very important.