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Soroush Khanlou & Chris Dzombak
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65. Times That Do Not Exist
43 minutes Posted Apr 20, 2018 at 1:00 pm.
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  • Your Calendrical Fallacy Is...
  • iOS 11.2.6 DateFormatter.date returns nil for cities that observe Brasília Summer Time
  • Pub quiz question,"How many time zones are there"
    • I was still explaining to my fellow pub attendees about the complexities of time zones by the time the answer came around
  • Where is the extra 75 seconds coming from?
  • I think a great interview question is“how do you compute the length of a string?” If the candidate responds by asking“what do you mean by‘length’ and what do you mean by‘string’?” they pass —  @txsector
  • Big-O Notation
  • Ole Begemann: Strings in Swift 4 (explains how family emoji are composed of person emoji + joiners)
  • Ligatures in Unicode (Wikipedia)
  • Accidentally Quadratic
  • Soroush: Safety in Swift
  • Spoiler: Soroush’s Word Ladder Solution

Backspacing emoji composed of multiple codepoints in Google Docs:

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