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Deploy based on the planet alignments
- fishnchips 12y agoI'm afraid to ask about the use case ;)
- pepijndevos 12y agoPresumably to avoid deploying in unfavourable consolations.
- fishnchips 12y agoThis was exactly the answer I was so afraid to read :)
- jannes 12y agoThe word is constellations. Sorry for correcting you but it took me a bit to figure out what you were trying to say :)
- pepijndevos 12y agoStupid autocorrect...
- rjuyal 12y agoI actually read that as "constellations".
- NKCSS 12y agoThe biggest question: WHY???
- ars 12y agoThe second biggest question: WHY NOT???
- kshatrea 12y agoHaha.. This should be a boon to religious Hindu coders (if there are any). LOL - Based on Brihaspati' proximity to Mangal's orbit (I have no idea what I am saying) you could choose to not release to minimize your bad luck. I love this - and you actually have a use case. You should shop this around as an app to the big Indian outsourcing firms. All the best!
- TheSpiceIsLife 12y agoDoes this use sidereal or tropical astrology? I think Hindu astrology uses the sidereal system. (Does it sound like I know what I'm talking about?)
- pepijndevos 12y agoAm I correct that it only tests for conjunction with an orb of 1 degree? There are many aspects, some positive and some negative. Planets are also considered to align when they stand up to 8 degree apart. An improved version would for example deploy when there is a triangle or conjunction, but fail on an opposition or square. But as any astrologer will tell you, planned dates are meaningless. So yes, why indeed?
- monatron 12y agohumor
- pepijndevos 12y agoThe moon is missing. Let me know when you figure that one out.
- Piskvorrr 12y agoThat's no moon.
- feld 12y ago% pom The Moon is Waning Crescent (20% of Full) % man pom POM(6) FreeBSD Games Manual POM(6) NAME pom — display the phase of the moon SYNOPSIS pom [-p] [-d yyyy.mm.dd] [-t hh:mm:ss] DESCRIPTION The pom utility displays the current phase of the moon. Useful for selecting software completion target dates and predicting managerial behavior. Use the -p option to print just the phase as a percentage. Use the arguments -d and -t to specify a specific date and time for which the phase of the moon has to be calculated. If -d but not -t has been specified, it will calculate the phase of the moon on that day at mid‐ night. SEE ALSO `Practical Astronomy with Your Calculator' by Duffett-Smith. FreeBSD 10.1 July 14, 2010 FreeBSD 10.1
- gambiting 12y agoMy mum would be all over this(if she was a programmer) :P She will avoid buying expensive things or travelling when the planets are not aligned, it's supposed to be bad luck - silly astrology.
- bontoJR 12y agoNow, the question: why?
- TheSpiceIsLife 12y agoThis could be integrated in to an SDK - Superstitious Developer Kit. Other tools in the chain could check for things like Friday the 13th, the occurrence of three consecutive sixes in your IP address, and tell you which oils to vaporise, incense to burn, crystals to wear, homoeopathic prophylactics to take, whether it's okay to build or deploy if you, your mother, or sister(s) are menstruating, and so on and so forth.
- mhurron 12y agoThis would be fantastic.
- csours 12y agoIPv666?
- FreeFull 12y agoBetter look for consecutive sixes in both hexadecimal and decimal, too.
- amyjess 12y agoHexadecimal: the numeric base of Deep Black Magic.
- peterwwillis 12y agoPattern recognition would be needed due to the sheer number of potential vectors for evil numbers (auto-assigned client-side tcp port numbers, 'evil bit' tcp flag, network-order bitstream integers, packed binary objects, memory allocation/access, user ids, etc). There's a lot of potential mysticism we haven't touched on with either cryptography or AI....
- tomjen3 12y agoMost developers would have bigger issue than their build if they started menstruating...
- icebraining 12y ago
- kitd 12y agoTo be fair, the messages this produces make more sense as part of a build that some I've seen.
- arnold_s 12y agoThe same author also wrote: ArnoldC - Programming language based on the one-liners of Arnold Schwarzenegger: IT'S SHOWTIME TALK TO THE HAND "hello world" YOU HAVE BEEN TERMINATED https://github.com/lhartikk/ArnoldC https://github.com/lhartikk/ArnoldC
- deedubaya 12y agoVery nerdy, very awesome.
- jkot 12y agoI had look at source code, it seems like very inaccurate approximation, real planet position could be a few degrees different. You can get 10' accuracy with a few kilobytes of polynomials. Some astronomical (and astrological) programs use polynomials a few megabytes big. JPL ephems are 1 to 100 gigabytes.
- mikeash 12y agoYou raise an interesting question. Does accuracy matter for something like this? Would a more accurate version be better...?
- pfortuny 12y agoOf course. The fact that it has not worked until now is that all the calculations were wrong!
- peterwwillis 12y agoAs most people who've used commercial deployment systems will tell you, accuracy does not appear to matter.
- jkot 12y agoYes! NASA does deployments based on planet positions:-) Even normal deployment based on time of day, or time since sunrise depends on planets positions. Center of gravity of solar system is not inside the Sun but OUTSIDE. Sunrise and sunset times depends on Jupiter, Saturn and other planets. Also Moon and Sun brings tidal waves...
- dagw 12y agoReminds me of this story: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/P/phase-of-the-moon.html http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/P/phase-of-the-moon.html
- reitanqild 12y agoMany interesting explanations in here: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/go01.html http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/go01.html
- vidarh 12y agoOne of the first startups I was involved in was founded by a guy that refused to sign contracts if the stars were not "favourable". Unsurprisingly the company eventually failed.
- tomjen3 12y agoThat is a great sales hack, actually. You can always claim that as an excuse to post-pone a deadline, since there is no good way for the other party to call your bullshit.
- AceJohnny2 12y ago> there is no good way for the other party to call your bullshit. Er, actually...
- Rexxar 12y agoThis should be taken in consideration when setting deadlines : at least 3 months without deployment when Uranus and Neptune are aligned.