The Old New Thing

April 15, 2005 - The Old New Thing

News flash: Everybody has to pay income tax

April 15, 2005 Apr 15, 2005 04/15/05
Raymond Chen
NFL rookies are required to attend "How not to mess up your life like those other professional athletes" training. They learn about such things as sexual harassment, AIDS, common-law marriage, and, of course, taxes. Kendrell Bell, a Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker, tells of his great awakening to the verities of income tax: "I got a million-...

Tweaking our computation of the interval between two moments in time

April 15, 2005 Apr 15, 2005 04/15/05
Raymond Chen
We can take our computation of the interval between two moments in time and combine it with the trick we developed for using the powers of mathematics to simplify multi-level comparisons to reduce the amount of work we impose upon the time/date engine. Observe that we avoided a call to the method (which is presumably rather complicated ...