@antifarben No, the lesson is not that "Java people use week-based years", the lesson is that you want to make sure not to use YYYY when you mean yyyy.
Week years are used together with week numbers. If the last day of a calendar year is e.g. a Wednesday, that is the Wednesday of week 1 of the following calendar year.
@Matter@codesections The idea is to undermine the concept of proprietary relicensing, where one party in the community controls the copyright on all or most of the code, usually via a license agreement separate from the license offered to the community, and uses that privilege to be the only party to relicense the code to paying customers. The proprietary relicensing poison pill levels the playing field by saying that if you relicense, everybody gets to relicense.
@codesections Note that copyleft-next was started in 2013 or late 2012, and that the latest release 0.3.1 came out in 2016 and is still a work in progress.
The proprietary relicensing poison pill is not the only interesting feature, it also has a 15-year sunset clause for the copyleft preconditions, making a release permissive after that, in order to cure license incompatibilities and allowing code to move forward in terms of licensing without contacting every single author that ever contributed.
@dwaltiz It is! And it sounds awesome. Internal code cleanups, alignment between similar concepts from different standards, further optimizations, JIT, R7RS ...
@fristi@quad@pony I accidentally carried a corkscrew through Arlanda, Stansted and Tegel and only had to part with it when the Reichstag finally discovered it.
In Swedish if you "eat midday" (äter middag), you're eating dinner. I thought the Danes were the reasonable ones, but TIL that "middagsmad" (midday food) means dinner there too.
I knew that they were funny about "frokost" (early meal) meaning lunch. In Norwegian (bokmål: "frokost") and Swedish ("frukost") it means breakfast.
Swedish and Danish have an alternative, reasonable word "kvällsmat"/"aftenmad" (evening food) that also means dinner. In Swedish it's used about as often as the silly one. The reasonable one is considered a bit less formal.
- There's a urinal five meters in the other direction. It's not crowded. Use it if your fragile male self-image doesn't allow you to sit. - CLOSE THE DOOR. - Lift the ring (maybe they actually did). - When done, close the lid. - FLUSH. WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH YOU‽ You don't even have to touch anything, just wave your hand. There is a sensor for auto-flush, but it only works for people who use the seat as intended, who sit on it. - I'm assuming I'd need to tell you to wash your grubby mitts.
"A Legacy Of Torture Is Preventing Trials At Guantánamo"
"Those techniques included mock burials; aggressive body cavity searches; waterboarding, which simulates drowning; and "walling," in which prisoners were slammed against walls, a move their lawyers allege sometimes left them with traumatic brain injuries."