waving android

I am currently a software engineer at Google, where as a member of the Android platform team I build frameworks and user interfaces.

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[09:23] <dsandler> microtime() doesn’t return a big float (like the equivalent under BeOS) — it returns a string formatted as “0.xxxx XXXXXX” [09:23] <dsandler> so…

October 8th, 2002

[09:23] <dsandler> microtime() doesn’t return a big float (like the
equivalent under BeOS) — it returns a string formatted as “0.xxxx
XXXXXX”

[09:23] <dsandler> so PHP blithely “subtracts” them, to bizarre results

[09:23] * daveb sticks finger in throat

[09:24] <dsandler> Yeah, PHP is open-source at its best and worst.

[09:24] <dsandler> Best: useful, ubiquitous.

[09:24] <dsandler> Worst: designed by a pack of rabid one-eyed donkeys.
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