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Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

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How to Multiply Time, Dot Durability, and Dot a B S or Dot Abs

The way the integers are stored in computers, there's always one more negative number than there is positive numbers. Johnny: I needed to know if two times were within a minute of each other and not trigger an alert twice. The problem was that durations are just stored as integer; you can't rely on doing the absolute. And i think any time there's weirdness at the edges, you know, it's very difficult to find them.

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