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Comment What about (Score 1) 78

all the science fiction that thinks that every time someone copies a file it somehow magically disappears completely from the source computer and all backups. A lot of the time it seems like the people writing think that computer files are like paper files and things like backups don't exist.

Comment Timestamps (Score 1) 368

I'm against DST and all but any programmer that relies on human friendly displayed time (eg 1:30) for storing data for mission critical applications like medical records messed up. The data should be stored with timestamps that are unaffected by things like DST and only convert to more human friendly formats when the data is displayed somewhere.

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