Caesar and Augustus didn't insert those months, they were renamed from Quintilis and Sextilis in their honour.

The reason for the discrepancy in names is due to the fact that March used to be the first month of the year. It was changed to January hundreds of years before Caesar came along, so the naming scheme was already 2 months off by that point.

> March used to be the first month of the year. It was changed to January hundreds of years before Caesar came along

Depends on your perspective. In the US (really, in Britain), this change occurred during the lifetime of George Washington, who arguably lived hundreds of years after Caesar.

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and our (UK) tax system still hasn't caught up, starting on the 5th April.

For some reason, I've always preferred OCaml's style of generics notation: (T, (int, long) U, int W) S

I'm pretty sure I'm in the minority with that opinion though.

I've never heard of tail recursion being used as a performance optimization. Generally it's required to prevent a recursive function from blowing the stack.

Iteration is usually more performant than recursion, but doesn't mix well with immutability.

Tail calls _are_ iteration, just expressed as a function.

You're not purchasing anything on Kickstarter though, you're making a donation.

Nope. I see that argument many times relating to crowd funding and it just isn't the case.

When you pledge to a kickstarter, they're committing to providing the rewards stated for the money provided.

The difference between that and a standard purchase is that the product generally doesn't exist yet, which is why there is a risks section attached to every campaign, so that backers are aware that the product could run into problems.

However it's not a donation.

You’re not committing to a purchase though, there is some inherent risk in a kickstarter that they won’t deliver. And there is very little mechanism to chase them (usually they have either done a runner or gone belly up) So this is an interesting case, because the company is still around, and especially so as the poor guy is suffering MS and so has a more time limited domain to see a reward

indeed in most cases where kickstarters don't deliver by such wide margins the company is long gone.

This one is probably on older Kickstarter T&Cs so it'd be harder to get money back. In more recent times Kickstarter have tried to toughen up a little after early failures like ZioneyeZ

It's not a donation but I'd argue that even most donations carry the implication that you'll use the money for the purpose the donation was solicited for and not just have a big party for your friends.

The difference is that you're usually not expecting anything physical in return.

Or a burnt offering, as the case may be.