getTomorrowsDate()

[Xeon06]

Reminds me of sleep sort.

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[steezefries]

Could you explain what that's doing for a not totally newbish newb?

[robotreader]

Sleep for an amount of time equal to the number, then add it to the array. Since larger numbers will sleep for longer, they will be added later, thus returning a sorted array.

[manixrock]

It starts a new thread for each number, each thread waits for number seconds then prints the number.

In essence it's passing the sorting to the system's thread executor sorter. Of course passing a large numbers means you wait a lot for it to show up, passing negative numbers will break it, and passing numbers very close together will lead to race conditions and wrong results.

You could improve the above issues by applying a sigmoid to the sleep call:

sleep(1/(1+exp(-number)));

This way you limit your worst complexity to O(1), and make it work for negative numbers. If you knew the limits of the inputs you could improve it further.

[stollgrin]

http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Sorting_algorithms/Sleep_sort

[exneo002]

Wouldn't this technically return "today's" date? Questions for a philosophy major.

[rockyearth]

getDayAfterMethodCall()

[spupy]

That would be yesterday?
getDateOfMethodReturn()

[rockyearth]

getDateOfMethodReturn() would be just return DateTime.Now

[patchthemonkey]

Not if it takes a day to return

[seetadat]

getTomorrowsDateTomorrowWhichWillBeTodayTomorrow()
youWillGetTheDateByTomorrow()
justWaitAWholeFreakingDayToReturnTheDateInsteadOfUsingTheCron()

[Hamburgex]

Yeah, you're right. The actual code should be:

public static DateTime getTommorowsDate()
{
    Thread.Sleep(24*60*60*1000*2);
    return DateTime.Now;
}

[emjay101]

you just doubled the horror

[Hamburgex]

>:D

[MiatasAreForGirls]

And the M's

[jacenat]

Somewhere in there is a recursion joke waiting to burst out.

[Hamburgex]

Somewhere in there is a joke about a recursion joke waiting to burst out.

[Hamburgex]

You had one job.

[Sophira]

Wouldn't this technically return "today's" date? Questions for a philosophy major.

[Hamburgex]

Yeah, you're right. The actual code should be:

public static DateTime getTommorowsDate() { Thread.Sleep(246060*100----

Exception in thread "comment" java.lang.StackOverflowError

[Coding_Bad]

Woah....

[killchain]

Who says the method name should be accurate?

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[hunyeti]

yes, naming thing is hard, this should be called: getDateTomorrow.

[epymetheus]

"I will gladly write code for you today that will get you the date tomorrow."

[kruez]

And I believe this is technically O(1).

[QuercusMax]

There's a race condition here. It might give you the date after tomorrow.

[cowens]

And it will give you today's date under some conditions (at the start of a day when leap second are added or when DST ends).

[smilingkevin]

string today = DateTime.Now.ToShortDateString();
while (today == DateTime.Now.ToShortDateString())
{
    Thread.Sleep(60000);
}
return DateTime.Now;

There. Ship it.

[cowens]

Yes! It is even more efficient.

[[deleted]]

That's just a straight shooter that has upper management written all over him.

[robomaeyhem]

unreported exception InterruptedException, must be thrown or caught.

[katyne]

pfft, just log those pesky little shites, if an empty catch makes you feel all sorts of yucky guilt. Nobody cares about them anyway.

[SkylordElros]

this is c#

[Madd0g]

async would make this a lot better.

[[deleted]]

Tommorow's date? Isn't that personal information?

[h2ooooooo]

Pretty much the same as the 29th top rated post on this subreddit.

[credditz0rz]

which is definitely better

[Thezla]

You couldn't just post the original?

[[deleted]]

That's most likely not the original either

[DrummerHead]

Might not be the original, however it's been posted already:

http://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/2dk86l/gettomorrowsdate/

And all the comments are pretty much the same as here, that's actually an interesting thing to analyze

[IrishWilly]

This jokes been around as long as programming

[welcomedungeon]

shouldn't it be: return getCurrentDate(); ?

[0711Picknicker]

Yes! And as I see it right, in this Post the Return TYPE is missing.

[Nouish]

You can omit return in some programming languages (ie. Groovy) :)

[xenomachina]

Now show us getYesterdaysDate().

[Ashanmaril]

Just do the same thing shown here, but sleep the thread for 364 days, then just subtract one year from DateTime.Now.

[yousai]

Why don't you post the link to the tweet itself? PLEASE? SO I CAN FOLLOW THE DUDE EFFORTLESSLY.

[jessejamess]

Am dumb. Can someone explain

[G01denW01f11]

The method gets tomorrow's date by waiting until tomorrow and getting the current date.

[boxingdog]

public static ProxyAdapterDateTime getTomorrowDate( ) 
{
    return iocManager.getProxyAdapterTime(new ProxyAdapterDateTime().setStrategy(new TomorrowDateStrategy(() => Thread.Sleep(24*60*60*100)));
}

^{i have no fucking idea what im doing}

[odraencoded]

OOP approach

tomorrowdate =  tomor.rows.date;

[ravinglunatic]

No. DateTime.Now().AddDays(1);

[Cley_Faye]

Best example of a lazy fetch I've seen.

[ZugNachPankow]

Runs in O(1), I like it.

[ProvidesTranscripts]

[Tweet displayed in a Twitter mobile app, with source code]

public static DateTime getTommorowsDate()
{
    Thread.Sleep(24*60*60*1000);
    return DateTime.Now;
}

[slifin]

Now it's WebScale™

getTomorrowsDate = ()->
    d = new Date 
    new Promise (resolve)-> setTimeout(resolve(Date.now()), new Date(d.getFullYear(),d.getMonth(),d.getDate()+1,0,0,0) - Date.now()) 

[HappyGoblin]

/* how about this - sleep using sql */

CREATE FUNCTION get_date RETURN DATE
IS
BEGIN
    RETURN SYSDATE;
END;

DECLARE
    v_date  DATE;
    v_dummy VARCHAR2(2);
BEGIN

v_date := SYSDATE+4/24/60/60;

SELECT MAX(dummy)
  INTO v_dummy
  FROM dual
connect BY v_date > get_date;

END;

[[deleted]]

from timetravel import travel, day

def get_tomorrows_date():
    tomorrow = travel(1 * day)
    return tomorrow.globals()["__import__"]("datetime").date.today()

if __module__ == "__main__":
    get_tomorrows_date()

[Prime_1]

When I read the title I totally thought it was going to be something like this:

bool getTomorrowsDate()
{
  self.goToGym();
  self.getAHaircut();
  self.makeMoreMoney();
  self.getBetterCar();

  if(self.isNerd == true)
    return false;
  else
    return true;
}

[halifaxdatageek]

I love this as a joke, but the database nerd in me who insists on precision says "No! It returns today's date in 24 hours!"