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  • This is Spain, and over there, just over the Guadiana River, is Portugal.

  • Here, it is about 4pm, and over there, it is about 3pm.

  • Because time zones.

  • Now, thanks to the Schengen Agreement, I can travel between 29 European countries without

  • any border guards or passport checks.

  • And thanks to an enterprising British ex-pat,

  • I can choose to travel between these two European countries

  • by zip wire.

  • Now, if there's one thing I've learned while programming computers,

  • it's that there are always edge cases.

  • You can try to plan for everything,

  • but the real world is always fuzzier than you might think.

  • Names, addresses, personal details, geography, maps,

  • you can try to put the world into a database

  • but the world will always provide you with exception to every rule.

  • And this here is a brilliant way to demonstrate it.

  • So I'm going to put a few things on screen during my ride.

  • The current time.

  • The time I set off.

  • The cost of the zip line ride.

  • And, using some deliberately shoddy code, the time elapsed.

  • So the next time you write some code for the world to use:

  • have a think about the edge cases.

  • -- Right, okay! -- Thank you!

  • -- Legs up! -- Legs up!

  • Woo-hahahaha! Yes, boy! Woo!

  • There we go!

  • -- That was good. -- Perfect.

  • -- Got it. On there? Got it. -- Okay.

  • Muy bien.

This is Spain, and over there, just over the Guadiana River, is Portugal.

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跨越時空的郵政編碼 (The Zip Line Across Time Zones)

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    林宜悉 發佈於 2021 年 01 月 14 日
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