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Burkhard
2024-10-31 17:13:14 UTC
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Q: Why do programmers confuse Halloween with Christmas?
Kerr-Mudd, John
2024-10-31 19:24:29 UTC
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Post by Burkhard
Q: Why do programmers confuse Halloween with Christmas?
Same every year. I vaguely recollect it was a DEC joke, but it
may be earlier.

(xpost added: TO and AFC)
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erik simpson
2024-10-31 22:31:30 UTC
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Post by Burkhard
Q: Why do programmers confuse Halloween with Christmas?
That's a programming error. When the Halloween object is instantiated,
it contains the date. Similarly with Christmas.

On the other hand, merchants bleed together both, including Thanksgiving
for countries that recognize that
André G. Isaak
2024-11-01 02:16:12 UTC
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Post by Burkhard
Q: Why do programmers confuse Halloween with Christmas?
That's a programming error.  When the Halloween object is instantiated,
it contains the date.  Similarly with Christmas.
On the other hand, merchants bleed together both, including Thanksgiving
for countries that recognize that
It's worse in Canada. Our Thanksgiving is in October and it provides
absolutely no buffer between Halloween and Xmas. We get two months of Xmas.

André
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Burkhard
2024-11-01 10:56:04 UTC
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Post by Burkhard
Q: Why do programmers confuse Halloween with Christmas?
A: Because Oct 31 = Dec 25.

(and I have NO idea why the answer did not show im the first post...)
David Dalton
2024-11-04 20:47:28 UTC
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Post by Burkhard
Post by Burkhard
Q: Why do programmers confuse Halloween with Christmas?
A: Because Oct 31 = Dec 25.
(and I have NO idea why the answer did not show im the first post...)
I guess it is also Hex for one.
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David Dalton
2024-11-04 20:54:36 UTC
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Post by Burkhard
Q: Why do programmers confuse Halloween with Christmas?
A: Because Oct 31 = Dec 25.
(and I have NO idea why the answer did not show im the first post...)
I guess it is also Hex for one.
oops, I was thinking hex is base 6 but it is base 16, so

instead it is Hex One Neuf (hex one Newf),
where Newf is short for Newfoundlander.
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David Dalton ***@nfld.com https://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)
https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)
“Mary walks down to the water’s edge and there she hangs Her head to
find herself faded a shadow of what she once was” (Sarah McLachlan)
jillery
2024-11-05 11:42:34 UTC
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Post by David Dalton
Post by Burkhard
Post by Burkhard
Q: Why do programmers confuse Halloween with Christmas?
A: Because Oct 31 = Dec 25.
(and I have NO idea why the answer did not show im the first post...)
I guess it is also Hex for one.
Hexadecimal is your friend.

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