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I went to a 1234567890 "gathering" in a hotel lobby in Boston in 2009



I was doing the late shift on a trading floor at a big bank.

The head of the derivatives tech support team pointed out it was about to hit so we opened up a shell and did a "watch" command + outputting the "date" command in epoch seconds and watched it happen.

Then we went back to working.


I remember that moment! I was out at a bar or something at the time but I was prepared and had my laptop with me haha. I was mashing the up arrow and enter to make sure I didn’t miss it.




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