Leo Uino

Most people would use “word”, “half-word”, “quarter-word” etc, but the Anglophiles insist on “tuppit”, “ternary piece”, “span” and “chunk” (that’s 5 bits, or 12 old bits).

Nothing followed by the sound of a lot of cars leaving the Facility very fast.

TDD

const max12 = (x, y) => {
    if (x === 1 && y === 2) {
        return 2;
    } else if (x === 7 && y === 4) {
        return 7;
    } else {
        return x;
    }
};

It’s even cooler than lightbulbs, though (assuming we’re talking about incandescents) - you send electricity back and forth into a wire that’s just the right length, and (RF) light leaks out without it getting hot!

Yes, CTEs are awesome. Especially when you don’t force materialization and the optimizer can work its magic.

I’ve had a lot of fun with window functions as well.

Um, actually… A signed 32-bit counter would loop back to December 1901, so the calendar is presumably 31-bit unsigned. (Sorry)

There’s always the classic C strcpy :)

char *strcpy(char *dest, char *src) {
    char *p = dest;
    while (*p++ = *src++);
    return dest;
}