Breakfast of Champions
Coffee, coffee cake, half a snickerdoodle, chocolate pudding from Tartine, shot of red pepper flakes, spoon. My mom’s not here to stop me.
I find this stuff incredibly boring.
Stolen from What’s Wrong With Turkey
Most languages have this covered; there are functions that allow you to read or write dates and numbers appropriately for various cultures. In .NET, for example, it’s the difference between these two calls:
int.Parse("32.768");
int.Parse("32,768", System.Globalization.NumberFormatInfo.InvariantInfo);
The "invariant" culture is every American programmer’s secret dream realized: we merely close our eyes and [...]
