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> It can even work for future dates and times too! Morocco has some complex logic around Ramadan... which is a moveable festival. https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/ma…

Who maintains what time it was in Yugoslavia in 1970? Or Serbia? What country maintains the time information for the island of Taiwan? Or Hong Kong while under British rule or while under Japanese r…

That would provide the machine readable version... but not the human documentation of time. You wouldn't be able to debug the Moroccan Ramadan rule (which is provided as some elisp code) and its…

It's a term that's been used in financial literature for a while. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_interest-rate_policy > Zero interest-rate policy (ZIRP) is a mac…

I know a lot of developers who have learned their skillset by rote from the early 2010s and have not progressed in competency (they still write code with the same issues as they did a decade ago) or t…

I'd contend that 2020-2023 is a continuation of the slope from... 2017 with a an outlier for 2020. That is especially evident in the software publisher part of the increase. And then there'…

Even the ramp up in the late 2010s with the increase in "software publisher" hiring was crazy. Covid put a dent in that, but the increase in the increase in hiring goes back further than th…

There's another post for it that went back to the early 90s. I've grabbed it at https://imgur.com/a/kB9CAKF though it's a smaller image (Imgur resizing).…

https://imgur.com/a/kB9CAKF via Imgur (though you get resizing - its bigger on my screen) The question that I have for this data though is that its showing the derivative - the c…

BLS had some classification changes over the years. I think it's interesting in the "this is how people thought about the role over the decades." Today there are computer programmers (…

Tariffs do hang out in a vault for a period of time when the importer can challenge the collection or the amount. https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/06/cbp-tel…

Most of the money that Nintendo paid and is entitled to have be returned to them has not gone into the government's coffers. The money that has passed various deadlines may be more difficult to r…

> Most resumes are not very good. Beyond the obvious problems like typos ... This is a person who you're going to be reviewing their code or reading the documentation that they write. If there…

> There's a lot of anger in this thread at companies for making obvious choices. Elsecomment and on Reddit, you'll see the attitude that their years of experience should be sufficient ass…

> Almost invariably after submitting, I see how I could clarify and/or expand on my thoughts, so I often do end up editing. One of the tricks of HN is the 'delay' setting. https:&#…

> All because it was getting cold outside and he needed a place to sleep. And he also had a toothache that had been bothering him for weeks. So he hoped to see a doctor while he was in county jail.…

My apologies if I didn't make that clear - my "yes" was to the question "Do you think anyone explains it to them?" And yep, she was a very good English teacher. It was a more…

It's listed in his computer science bibliography https://dblp.org/pid/c/VintonGCerf.html and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vint_Cerf#Author Though…

> Directional laser beams are orders of magnitude to jam compared to radio wave. That alone makes it of big interest for military applications, even with 500 ms latency. I am reminded of RFC 1217 -…

Depends on how the items are purchased. Some are trying... https://www.facebook.com/CardsAgainstHumanity -> https://www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com …

It depends on the loading. If you've got it 9-12" high apart and are putting paperbacks on there... that shouldn't be a problem. However, when the shelf becomes multiples of that, then…

> It isn't that it isn't enjoyable, but it just isn't enjoyable in the same way. How often do you view the jokes in shakepear's work as raunchy or sexual? Do you think younger t…

Full article share link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/science/chimpanzees-cryst... …

I'd have to dig to try to find out what the date on this would be. Russia is telling since they changed their timezones in 2016. I'm going to note that timezones are also a political iden…

Most of the world tends to prefer to not be too far from the center of the timezone (where solar noon matches solar time in standard time). Geographic and political boundaries make it so that often…

The part "Copyright is another form of intellectual property protection available to code and algorithms. However, it should be noted that certain jurisdictions do not permit an owner to assert b…

That's partly because it's in the same timezone as Poland. Madrid is further west that London, but London is an hour behind. Moving Spain to permanent DST puts it on the same effective tim…

The author is nominally Daren Tang of WIPO. https://www.wipo.int/web-publications/wipo-guide-to-trade-se... ... Trade secrets have been hidden gems for too long. It is…

Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandford_Fleming ( https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/sandf... ) > He promoted worldwide standard…

https://www.wipo.int/web-publications/wipo-guide-to-trade-se... Section 3.2 > As mentioned above, code is the language used to write software programs, contains the implementa…