User: johno

Re:Null is not Zero in SQL

On: An Alternative to SQL?

OK, but the author didn't ever say that null was equal to numeric zero. I don't see what your point is.

Re:Odd results

On: Calculate When You Are Most Awake

This seems to be because the program doesn't actually perform useful calculations -- i tried this test twice, using very different sleep times, and both times it told me 15:something and 17:something. The two values seem to be hardcoded.

The site is not scientific. It simply is a subtle marketing trick.

Advice

On: Handling 1,000,000 Hits a Day?

I'd do what slashdot itself does.... Apache with MySQL (reference)

I'd say they deal with a comparable load, too...

Oops -- big typo by schmofo

On: Happy 'Even Day' - the First in 1112 Years

What I'm guessing is that the whole post by schmofo (claiming today was the first 'even day' since 12-28-888 contained a typo -- the fact that 12-28-888 was the even day preceeding today.

If you follow his link the the earlier post about 'odd day' back on November 11 1999, sengan, the author of the post says "The next even day will be 2-2-2000 - the first one since 28-8-888."

This comment is completely true -- 28-8-888 is a true 'even day'. However, the last even day according to schmoko is 12-28-888, which is not actually an even day, since it contains a '1' as one of its digits.

I imagine this should clear up most the controversy caused by this big mistake by schmofo...

Re:the so-called even date

On: Happy 'Even Day' - the First in 1112 Years

actually i'm thinkin you can divide 0 by anything you want..... the answer will always end up 0.

save 0 of course, since you cannot divide anything by 0