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Re:Firefox 4 is here on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @12:23PM (#2355051)
Re:Update your timezone defs: Russia abolishes winter time (DST) on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @06:56PM (#2195487)
Indeed.

http://www.google.com/search?q=fortnight+/+1000

1 fortnight / 1000 = 20.16 minutes

Re:Update your timezone defs: Russia abolishes winter time (DST) on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @06:38PM (#2195422)
The US DST change in 2007 cost an estimated $500 million to $1 billion: http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0307/p02s01-stct.html

DST has cost me many hours spent debugging. I will be very happy if/when it is abolished in the US.

Re:Write A Function To Determine If A Number Is A Power Of 2 on Monday October 18, 2010 @11:30AM (#1803835)
why not use logs? in python:

  >>> from math import log
  >>> def isPower2(val): return False if (val == 0) else  (log(val) / log(2)).is_integer()
  ... 
  >>> isPower2(0)
  False
  >>> isPower2(1)
  True
  >>> isPower2(2)
  True
  >>> isPower2(3)
  False
  >>> isPower2(4)
  True
  >>> isPower2(1024)
  True
  >>> isPower2(1025)
  False