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    5 months ago

    JCPenny tried changing all their prices ending with .99 to the round dollar amount. It was catastrophic for their sales so they changed it back

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        Pfft, silly object-oriented devs. My children are named Typeclass and Iterator! Scala Design Patterns prove themselves to reign supreme once again. Enjoy sending your kids to public coding bootcamp.

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      This is also why gas pumps measure gasoline to the thousandth of a gallon. Consumers LOVE to see those numbers racing upwards and think, “Whoaaaaa! Look at those numbers GO! I must be getting an awesome deal!”

      It’s a deliberate psychological trick, played on you by energy companies to fool you into thinking you’re getting more than you really are.