One 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.
Deploy based on the planet alignments
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Re: Deploy based on the planet alignments
#32The 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
This is hilarious. I'd love to see the source code of a large program written in ArnoldC :)
Re: Deploy based on the planet alignments
#33The 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
This is hilarious. I'd love to see the source code of a large program written in ArnoldC :)
Imho the author should have written AstroBuild in ArnoldC. Would have been the perfect use case ;)
Re: Deploy based on the planet alignments
#34Re: Deploy based on the planet alignments
#35Now, the question: why?
Answer: Why Not?
Re: Deploy based on the planet alignments
#36This 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…
Most developers would have bigger issue than their build if they started menstruating...
Re: Deploy based on the planet alignments
#37One 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.
That 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.
Re: Deploy based on the planet alignments
#38This 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…
Better look for consecutive sixes in both hexadecimal and decimal, too.
Pattern 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....
Re: Deploy based on the planet alignments
#39I 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.
You raise an interesting question. Does accuracy matter for something like this? Would a more accurate version be better...?
As most people who've used commercial deployment systems will tell you, accuracy does not appear to matter.
Re: Deploy based on the planet alignments
#40I 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.
You raise an interesting question. Does accuracy matter for something like this? Would a more accurate version be better...?
Yes! 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...