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timvisee / falsehoods-programming-time-list.md
Last active March 19, 2026 20:21
Falsehoods programmers believe about time, in a single list

Falsehoods programmers believe about time

This is a compiled list of falsehoods programmers tend to believe about working with time.

Don't re-invent a date time library yourself. If you think you understand everything about time, you're probably doing it wrong.

Falsehoods

  • There are always 24 hours in a day.
  • February is always 28 days long.
  • Any 24-hour period will always begin and end in the same day (or week, or month).
@rambabusaravanan
rambabusaravanan / .gitconfig
Last active September 18, 2025 17:02
Git Diff and Merge Tool - IntelliJ IDEA
# Linux
# add the following to "~/.gitconfig" file
[merge]
tool = intellij
[mergetool "intellij"]
cmd = /usr/local/bin/idea merge $(cd $(dirname "$LOCAL") && pwd)/$(basename "$LOCAL") $(cd $(dirname "$REMOTE") && pwd)/$(basename "$REMOTE") $(cd $(dirname "$BASE") && pwd)/$(basename "$BASE") $(cd $(dirname "$MERGED") && pwd)/$(basename "$MERGED")
trustExitCode = true
[diff]
@acolyer
acolyer / service-checklist.md
Last active February 16, 2026 02:23
Internet Scale Services Checklist

Internet Scale Services Checklist

A checklist for designing and developing internet scale services, inspired by James Hamilton's 2007 paper "On Desgining and Deploying Internet-Scale Services."

Basic tenets

  • Does the design expect failures to happen regularly and handle them gracefully?
  • Have we kept things as simple as possible?
@ianbarber
ianbarber / RetrieveAccessTokenActivity.java
Created March 17, 2014 20:22
A quick example of retrieving an access token with GoogleAuthUtil
package com.google.devrel.samples.gmstest.app;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.AsyncTask;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.view.View;
@masak
masak / explanation.md
Last active January 2, 2026 04:27
How is git commit sha1 formed

(The below text is licensed with CC0, which means that if you want to use or translate it, that is OK by me.)

Ok, I geeked out, and this is probably more information than you need. But it completely answers the question. Sorry. ☺

Locally, I'm at this commit:

$ git show
commit d6cd1e2bd19e03a81132a23b2025920577f84e37
Author: jnthn <jnthn@jnthn.net>

Date: Sun Apr 15 16:35:03 2012 +0200