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I usually work out and keep tabs on my hygiene. So far it's working.


Standing desks are for people who want the salary of a developer, but also want the physique of a cashier.


Who doesn't?


4 million seems like such an odd limit for a system. I'm not sure what number that were using to store the counter for the call limit.


Who the hell would design a system involving 911 calls with a limit that could be reached in a couple years of calls? I can't imagine how I would go about being stupid enough to not understand the nature of the requirement to not have 911 calls fail. This isn't cobol with a fixed field limit of N digits someone specified in 1964.


40 million, according to the article at the moment.

Edit: Thinking it might be because they limited the variable to a specific number of bits, I checked to see if any maxed out around that number. 25 bits max out at 33,554,431 and 26 bits at 67,108,863.


Haven't they ever heard of a UUID? Or if they are worried about potential collisions at least make the number 128bit (since you have an obscenely large max value to increment to).


Thanks for checking this out!

For those interested this app responds to phrases like,

"Chances, flip a coin" or

"Chances, roll a die."

I'm just starting with developing Windows Phone Apps and I would like your most honest feedback.


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