Re: [Jchat] J, APL, or calendars?

2018-06-05 Thread Jose Mario Quintana
Björn Helgason wrote: > https://marymagdalenefrancetours.com/did-jesus-live-in-france/ Right, this is the stuff of legend; some related items follow (you might, or might not, find the last item interesting): The appearance of Jesus in the Americas is presumably believed by approximately 16M

Re: [Jchat] J, APL, or calendars?

2018-06-05 Thread Jose Mario Quintana
Harvey wrote: > Actually, it's rather easy--it all depends on the number 4. If you're > dealing with century years (100 years, ending with 00), then it's a > leap year if the century year is divisible by 400 (100x4); otherwise > it's not a leap year. If you're dealing with a non-century year,

Re: [Jchat] GitHub -- is this good news or bad?

2018-06-05 Thread chris burke
I don't think this is a concern for those with public github repos (like ourselves). Our private git repos are self-hosted, not on github. The real concern would be for those with private github repos, which may now become readable by Microsoft. Whatever assurances are given, I think it likely

Re: [Jchat] J, APL, or calendars?

2018-06-05 Thread Björn Helgason
some people say half seven meaning 18:30 while others mean 19:30. lot of different meanings and sign language is also very different in different parts of the world. On 5 Jun 2018 12:46, "'Bo Jacoby' via Chat" wrote: > The proposed calender addresses points in time rather than intervals of >

Re: [Jchat] J, APL, or calendars?

2018-06-05 Thread 'Bo Jacoby' via Chat
The proposed calender addresses points in time rather than intervals of time. It does'n address "the twentyfirst century". Before the advent of clocks the hours were addressed by ordinal numbers, like "the eleventh hour", but a clock shows the cardinal number of hours and minutes elapsed since

Re: [Jchat] J, APL, or calendars?

2018-06-05 Thread Björn Helgason
https://marymagdalenefrancetours.com/did-jesus-live-in-france/ On Tue, 5 Jun 2018 04:00 PR PackRat, wrote: > On 6/4/18, Jose Mario Quintana wrote: > > Harvey wrote: > >> It's just the way it is. > > I merely intended to inject some reality. Despite all of the > discussions and arguments pro