• (nodebb)

    Let's see.... In the drone headline, they apparently didn't know about dotless "ı", while in the subheading, they knew about it, but couldn't manage to display it. Impressive!

  • (nodebb)

    Ngeative frist!

  • Mr Bits (unregistered)

    ordinal (937-305-0631)

    And I give Barry props for the twin swap.

  • b. (unregistered)

    huh

  • Peter of the Norse (unregistered)

    For a while I worked moving data from MS-SQL to MySQL. The only format they shared in common at the time was .csv. We would manually inspect the files using Excel. All of the datetimes were treated as formulas no matter what we did. So "2002-06-15T13:05:45Z" would show up as -1981T13:05:45Z. I hear it’s better about it these days, but thank you OpenOffice

  • Spammer (unregistered)

    I want to share my experience to help others avoid the same mistake. In August, I fell victim to an online scam [ed: more spam that must have snuck by our filters. This remains here for context. ]

  • (nodebb)

    Hooray for stinking spam. Thank goodness the capthca stops all that [/s]

  • Officer Johnny Holzkopf (unregistered) in reply to Peter of the Norse

    Why not go a bit further and treat ":" either as division ("/") or relation (as in "a : b = c : d"), and use "T" and "Z" as a variable to solve? The intermediate result -1981T13:05:45Z could then be calculated either as -1981 / 13 / 05 / 45, or as an relational equation -1981 * T * 13 : 05 = 1 : 45 * Z (multiplication implied, factor 1 assumed), populating cells T1 and Z1 with the results for T and Z, or nonsense if there aren't any. All those expensive spreadsheet calculation programs with their formula engines could now prove useful!

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