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OnionBlender
2695 days ago
Some buildings don't have any floors labeled with a 4 because it is unlucky in China.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_numerology#Four
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sampo
2695 days ago
In the future we might have array libraries that provide arrays that don't have the 4th element.
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alboy
2695 days ago
That's preposterous, they should just throw an UnluckyIndexAccessException depending on the host's locale.
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randomdata
2695 days ago
But only after the software is in production, at some random time.
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