jamescgrant

Yeah, I admit I was stuck on what to name it too! Uncanny evokes a nature of mystery, which I'm not sure is totally approproate here.

Haha! I literally just Google'd "something that is attempted but misses the mark", after writing the above paragraph, and I found this article on Wikipedia [1]. It means "tragic flaw" or "to miss the mark". Feels quite apt! Perhaps "Hamartian Design" could work.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamartia

I had seen a few of these discussions pop up on Hacker News and I wanted to collect them all together into a single list.

If you have any other good examples I have missed feel free to contribute with an Issue/PR! :)

You inspired me to go hunting around Hacker News and I ended up with this lil' curated list: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21961222 :)

Hey, Cliff!

I very rarely comment, but I just wanted to say thanks for being awesome!

After showing my mum the video you did with Numberphile, she bought me one of your Klein bottles for my birthday. It's still one of my favourite nonorientable surfaces. ;)

All the best,

James

I wanted to figure out the importance of that value you found, so I went and did some further research. It turns out the greatest date you can create in Javascript is Date(8640000000000000). Interesting!

From the ECMAScript Spec [1]:

The actual range of times supported by ECMAScript Date objects is slightly smaller: exactly –100,000,000 days to 100,000,000 days measured relative to midnight at the beginning of 01 January, 1970 UTC. This gives a range of 8,640,000,000,000,000 milliseconds to either side of 01 January, 1970 UTC.

[1] http://ecma-international.org/ecma-262/5.1/#sec-15.9.1.1