Error'd: Killing Time
The Hatter was framed! He didn't even do it! Nil Corpus Delecti, et cetera.
Yet Yitz O., up to some kind of skullduggery, observed a spacetime oddity."When trying to compare some results from a GetOrders call via the ebayapi, I noticed something weird was happening with the DateTimes in the response.The attached is 3 calls to get the same order, made in quick succession.The millisecond part of all the DateTimes matched the millisecondpart of the *current* time (which you can see in the TimeStamp field.I assume it's because they rolled their own DateTime functionalityand are Getting a UTC time by subtracting the difference betweenthe local time and the UTC time, and one of those values doesn't havethe millisecond value in it, but it's the ebay api so who knows."Undoubtedly a bug that nobody ever noticed because they probablyjust ignore the millis altogether.
An anonymous smartie wrote that "Concerned about the possibility of creeping senesence, I'vebeen looking for some way to benchmark and track cognitive performance over time. This sitepurported to offer an online version of a common medical assessment, so I figured I'd giveit a try. But what's that first field asking about?
Naturally, I filled it in:
Apparently that was the wrong answer, but the error message here is singularly unhelpful. A trick question? Or proof that I'm already too far gone?
(The answer is on the page but it is a bit subtle.)
A first-time submission, I think, from Bill S.
"The Explore DDD Conference site wants you to jointheir mailing list; it would help if their submit button did something other than asilent 404 error."
"Yes, we have no listings," explainedPeter G. fruitlessly. Check back next week.
In a more fruitful vein, Jeremy P. decided he "Needed to look up a word from NYT connections. The Applebuilt in dictionary seems to have an unusual languagebuilt in called 'Apple'. 'Pilled' means 'inappropriatelyinserted advert' in Apple."
Check back next week as we bring you more seedy sites.
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