From the Mind of a Coder: The one-minute countdown

This is the microwave in the first floor kitchen (actually, you can see that it's on the last second of heating up my food - goodies provided at this morning's staff meeting that I was only getting around to eating close to noon). Pretty unassuming, right? That's what one might think!



I wanted to heat my food for one minute, so I entered it as...



But then I found myself wondering: why didn't I enter it like...



They're the same right? Right?! My first instinct was to enter it as "1.00" but then I realized that it would actually have been more efficient -- requiring one less digit, hence one less button-push -- if I had entered it as ".60" instead. I've never been one for the whole mind/body separation thing but this may be one instance where the two just go their separate ways :P

And that's another quick glimpse into the mind of a coder...