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Orange Sun Sparking [^]
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Very good - but am I allowed to look at it without dark glasses on? 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Your purple colored glasses are enough for that. 
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
modified 6-May-14 11:54am.
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There is no choice as to whether to wear dark glasses when you look at the sun - the only choice is whether you put them on before or (permanently) afterwards 
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Yep. When the UK had a total eclipse in 1999, Herself and I went down to Cornwall for a week (as the center of the totality would be there). We had a very good week in a tent, bought "proper" sun watching glasses (rather then the cheap paper and dark plastic ones) and a damn good filter for my camera. Had a lot of very good arguments with astronomers and physicists over copious rounds of beer.
On the day itself ... it hissed down with rain, 100% cloud cover and couldn't see the sun at all.
(Still a weird experience, it got seriously dark, seriously fast - even around the equator it doesn't go dark that quick.)
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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OriginalGriff wrote: couldn't see the sun at all.
During an eclipse? 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Drank too much - was facing down?
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Before, during or after... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I was in Babbacombefor it on cricket tour. We went down to the beach for the event itself and it was perfectly clear.
Eerie experience, got dark very quick as you said, and the temperature also dropped and sea birds headed out to sea.
I charged down the beach and dived into the sea as it went totally dark to see what the fishes made of it.
One bloke with us watched it on a small TV thing he had to save his eyes, might as well have stopped at home to do that.
And a bloke in his early 70s went for a piss and missed it. When he came back out he said "ah well, I'll catch the next one".
Traffic getting to the match that afternoon was bloody horrendous.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I'd forgotten the temperature drop!
It was spooky - the hairs on the back of my neck went up so quick I thought I'd taken someones eye out with my ponytail... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I was in Dublin for that and it was not overcast but hazy. I projected an image on a piece of card with a pinhole camera thing... was not very good at all.
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Really?! Clouds and rain in the UK?! WTF?!
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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The only way you'll see that type of surface detail is through a telescope with an extremely narrow band (<0.1 nanometer vs ~350nm bandpass for visual light) H-Alpha filter. I have one[^] and the color is closer to strawberry red than the orange they processed that image to.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Nice I like todays APOD
Along with Antimatter and Dark Matter they've discovered the existence of Doesn't Matter which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever!
Rich Tennant 5th Wave
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Pretend you offer a REST API and a potential customer asked you to change one of the GET methods to allow POST as well. Let's also pretend that in all modern languages this is a 15 second change + deploy, 20 second if you have automated testing, 30 minutes if you write a unit test, I suppose.
What do you do?
A) Do it
B) Refuse to do it
C) Write a condescending refusal?
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Nice one  , but billing of 40 hours will not be sufficient if it break any existing (working) things 
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D) Tell them it breaks your authentication model and so it is a huge security problem and will compromise their used of the system. Instead you will have to write a similar, yet different POST method requiring the necessary parts for authentication and it will take MANY days and cost MUCH money.
After returning from a leisurely vacation and collecting some cash from the client, make the GET allow POST.
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D) Do an impact analysis of what else will be affected by this change. Better to properly evaluate and schedule in an update than to perform a knee jerk change which shouldn't affect anything else but which probably is going to come home and bite you on the keester when it breaks something else for your biggest client.
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Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote: Pretend you offer a REST API and a potential customer asked you to change one of the GET methods to allow POST as well.
Don't touch working code unless you are absolutely sure it will not impact anything that is using it.*
Instead offer a new POST method specifically for this client, and charge accordingly. Win, win. 
* - If you do be sure you do full regression testing to insure it doesn't adversely impact existing code.
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D) Mock the customer elsewhere on the intarwebz while being foolish enough to use your real name. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I could care less. I am acting on behalf of the customer in this case and mocking the vendor. Three separate individuals here spent quite a while trying to POST to this API only to finally discover it is GET only. What is the tenet of services, be liberal in what you accept and restrictive in what you provide or such? Saying a vendor of an API should accept a GET and a POST verb for the same method call is not a "game changer" by any means. And calling the vendor out without publicly identifying them is not really that big of a deal. Though, I am still holding out that they will change their mind.
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Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote: What do you do?
Send an invoice, based on the hourly rate, for all 35 seconds and the time you wasted emailing, phoning and posting here.
Did the customer request a unit-test? Let me rephrase that, would it be billable?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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B) Refuse to do it.
I'll tell them, its not logical and why its not logical
And will ask them why they need it and suggest alternative solution if possible.
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