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Re: Show HN: The current sky at your approximate location, as a CSS gradient

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Post by edoceo »

dylan604 wrote: post #105
darknavi wrote: post #24

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A past coworker who worked on Cobalt[1] told me that they spent entirely too much time implementing stars in the sky of the game with some amount of real(ish) star system physics behind them. I can understand people removing polish things like that if there are usability concerns, but those small things add up to a lot in an end product and are a joy to find and explore. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt_(video…

The last thing you want is to receive a message from Neil Degrasse Tyson about how wrong your sky was https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=neil+degrasse+tyson+gives+j...

And pointed out Jon Stewart's globe spinned backward

Re: Show HN: The current sky at your approximate location, as a CSS gradient

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dudus wrote: post #95
throwanem wrote: post #51

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Sure, if you wanted to deal with configuring Apache. Or getting your hosting provider to do that. If you knew to ask, and didn't mind waiting, and your hosting provider knew how...

Not sure what you are on about. Adding an HTTP header to a request is one of the easiest things to do.

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Re: Show HN: The current sky at your approximate location, as a CSS gradient

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Post by astrange »

dylan604 wrote: post #108
urquhartfe wrote: post #98

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I think you are the one who doesn't know what they are on about. First, the header must be added to the response, not the request. Second, in many environments (managed hosting etc.) there is not an easy way (or indeed a way at all) of adding headers to responses.

is that something that could have be done in the dot file for server override? what was it, .htaccess or something?

Ever tried doing it in nginx? You'll find `add_header` doesn't work at all the way you think it does.

And it doesn't allow overrides in dotfiles since that's not performant or secure.

Re: Show HN: The current sky at your approximate location, as a CSS gradient

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Post by idiotsecant »

jbverschoor wrote: post #36
ryandrake wrote: post #7

Awesome. I remember much earlier in my career I was working on a 3D turn-by-turn navigation software, and one of my tasks was to draw the sky in the background. The more senior guy on the team said, just draw a blue rectangle during the day and a dark gray one at night and call it job done. Of course, I had to do it the hard way, so I looked up the relevant literature on sky rendering based on the environment, latitu…

Whipping down the innovator with the stupidity whip. Great management

This is a wildly unprofessional attitude. Programmers are craft(wo)men. They employ their craft toward creating things people pay them to create.

We aren't painting sistine chapels, we are running the plumbing in the sistine chapels basement. The job doesn't exist to give you emotional fulfillment. A mason doesn't insist that a client who needs a warehouse must pay him to spend a week detailing corbelled brick cornices. He makes a CMU wall, in the cheapest and most efficient way that still gets the job done.

It's profoundly disrespectful when we build monuments to our own ego instead of just getting the work done and it speaks to a professional immaturity of the highest order. That was one of the hardest lessons I learned as a fresh engineer and I see so often others that are just learning it. Sometimes people never learn it.

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