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Today Is EPOCH Day 15000

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the celebrate-round-numbers dept.

A great number of people wrote in to note that it's EPOCH Day 15000, so don't expect the post office to run, and I'm pretty sure the markets will be closed. And presumably your employer gave you a paid vacation day?

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  1. Thanks Slashdot for your timelyness by suso · · Score: 5, Interesting

    And if Slashdot would have accepted my story earlier that I tried posting a few times, you could have joined in on the countdown and parties. Somehow, I knew that Slashdot would do this. Posting things after the fact.

    Nevertheless, we had a pretty good party in Bloomington last night with around 40 people, DJ, free pizza, cake and so on. We all had fun and it was a good social outing. Maybe someone will post a picture of our Epoch Day 15000 party cake. If I could get my phone out of this funky state its in I could post a video.

    Official Day 15000 website

    1. Re:Thanks Slashdot for your timelyness by suso · · Score: 2

      Hehe, slashdotting of that server is in progress. The load is at 37 and rising. It should come back.

    2. Re:Thanks Slashdot for your timelyness by suso · · Score: 2

      Here we go, a picture of the cake. Nothing spectacular, but it was fun having it made and eating it.

      http://www.flickr.com/photos/kmakice/5389054539/

    3. Re:Thanks Slashdot for your timelyness by suso · · Score: 2

      137. Way into swap. Trying to recover. And believe it or not but I tried to make the machine beefy enough to handle this. Underestimated.

    4. Re:Thanks Slashdot for your timelyness by mbreitba · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Static pages FTW.

    5. Re:Thanks Slashdot for your timelyness by suso · · Score: 2

      Here is a video of the countdown

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDat2pZi07M

      Thanks Kevin Makice.

    6. Re:Thanks Slashdot for your timelyness by Neil+Hodges · · Score: 2

      I'd recommend either static pages (nginx) or a highly-scalable asynchronous dynamic web server (like Tornado).

    7. Re:Thanks Slashdot for your timelyness by PatPending · · Score: 2

      In addition: if Slashdot had accepted your spelling of "epoch" (including in your sig) instead of using the acronym EPOCH, Slashdot might not have confused our European friends with the reference to the European Program On Climatology And Natural Hazards.

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    8. Re:Thanks Slashdot for your timelyness by Terrasque · · Score: 2

      An alternative could be a Varnish in front, with lets say... 1 hour cache for anon users?

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    9. Re:Thanks Slashdot for your timelyness by memojuez · · Score: 3, Funny

      It went down hard

      The URL gives you this message

      Hello Slashdotters and your almight power of click. Thanks for coming to the site. If you can wait about 30 minutes, we'll have it back up.

      BTW, we tried to plan for a Slashdotting as much as we could when we setup the server for the site. Apparently still not enough.

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    10. Re:Thanks Slashdot for your timelyness by StikyPad · · Score: 4, Funny

      Hello Slashdotters and your almight power of click. Thanks for coming to the site. If you can wait about 30 minutes, we'll have it back up.

      BTW, we tried to plan for a Slashdotting as much as we could when we setup the server for the site. Apparently still not enough.

      I call BS. We all know nobody reads TFA. This post is a lie, just like the cake!

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  2. Of course my employer gave me a paid vacation day by Nursie · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's Australia Day you insensitive clod!

    So EPOCH day 15000 was marked with a trip to the beach, beer and a barbie.

  3. This explains it! by goombah99 · · Score: 2

    Well obviously the Epoch switch delayed processing of your story. Moreover I suspect it also explains why the slashdot's look changed and now seems to be a broken interface, only showing some of the comments.

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  4. Whats the big deal? by rossdee · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Whats so special about the number 15000 ? I could understand if it was 10000 or 100000 or, for more binary based folks 16383 or 16384, but 15000?

    1. Re:Whats the big deal? by Terrasque · · Score: 2

      It's an excuse to party and have fun.

      Like, "There's only Wednesday once a week, you know!" - Now, excuse me while I go out and celebrate this Wednesday :)

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      It's The Golden Rule: "He who has the gold makes the rules."
    2. Re:Whats the big deal? by Idbar · · Score: 2

      Hey! it's 15! that's like... 1111 in binary. But... multiplied by a thousand, which makes it thousand times cooler!

      Nah, I'm with you. I have no idea what's the significance of 15000, perhaps it's just a zodiac thing.

    3. Re:Whats the big deal? by MightyYar · · Score: 4, Funny

      It's to fuck with future civilizations. Though, to be truly effective, you need an ominous and arbitrary end date as well.

      It worked for the Mayans!

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    4. Re:Whats the big deal? by lysdexia · · Score: 2

      So when would you start counting?

  5. Why celebrate according to the decimal system? by TheEmptySet · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'll be saving my champagne for Epoch day 16,384 (otherwise known as 2^14). A little under 4 years to go...

  6. Re:Of course my employer gave me a paid vacation d by garyok · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's also Republic Day here in India too, celebrating them (I'm just visiting from London) finally ratifying their own constitution and throwing off the last of the laws imposed on them by the perfidious British oppressors. Having witnessed the independence of spirit and disdain for tyrannical rules most Indians exhibit on the road first-hand (like, you know, all driving the same way along a carriageway), I'm frankly amazed the Raj lasted longer than a day and a half.

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  7. I'm waiting for Epoch Second 1300000000 by ahecht · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm waiting for Epoch Second 1300000000, which will be Sun, 13 Mar 2011 07:06:40 GMT

    All those zeros will ease the pain of 2011 being the first year since 1977 that no one could make year-shaped glasses for new year's eve that actually allow you to see out of both eyes.

  8. hooray! by guero · · Score: 2

    echo $(( $( date +%s ) / 86400 ))

  9. EPOCH success? by peter_gzowski · · Score: 4, Funny

    EPOCH fail!

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  10. They spelled my name wrong... by eepok · · Score: 2

    It's spelled "e-e-p-o-k".

  11. our lifespans are @30,000 days by peter303 · · Score: 2

    With 10K epochs at 27, 54 and 82 years. I had the luck of noting one of my epochs. It was sobering.