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Your Calendrical Fallacy Is...iOS 11.2.6 DateFormatter.date returns nil for cities that observe Brasília Summer TimePub quiz question,"How many time zones are there"I was still explaining to my fellow pub attendees about the complexities of time zones by the time the answer came aroundWhere is the extra 75 seconds coming from?I think a great interview question is“how do you compute the length of a string?” If the candidate responds by asking“what do you mean by‘length’ and what do you mean by‘string’?” they pass — @txsectorBig-O NotationOle Begemann: Strings in Swift 4 (explains how family emoji are composed of person emoji + joiners)Ligatures in Unicode (Wikipedia)Accidentally QuadraticSoroush: Safety in SwiftSpoiler: Soroush’s Word Ladder SolutionBackspacing emoji composed of multiple codepoints in Google Docs: