we were going to reduce the 2 hour drift to 15 minutes, then i brazenly chose 30 seconds. 2 * 15 is 30 seconds which is our blocktime. we decided not to go with that as blocktimes do vary a bit.
No, you didn't. You copied and pasted code from peercoin without fully understanding it, a la
https://github.com/peercoin/peercoin/pull/93/commits/4281cb55b04600189bff4f0c8a92e042b34e75f8.
2 * 60 * 60 makes sense as a way to show
**2** hours.
2 * 15 doesn't make any sense, if 30 seconds is your desired value. You'd simply just write 30 if that were the case.
2 * 15 is a mistake made by a programmer trying to depict 15 minutes, as the comment indicates.
In this case, you weren't even the programmer who made the original mistake. You were a copy & paste monkey who didn't catch it. Which is fine, but rather than own up to your mistake, you try to invent a reason to make yourself look better.
This is not trustworthy behavior.
Good lord I had skimmed over that the first round of reading through the posts. He seriously did a copy-job on this. Showing code is one way to portray this, but this isn't that. It's the same mistake. Exactly. Twice. By two people. The second one here ripped it from the first.
He cheated on the test and the guy he cheated off of got it wrong.