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Luckily my eyes are not yet (but will be soon) at the point which require corrective devices.
I'm going to look strange as hell with glasses and I'm not sure I can bring myself to place small pieces of plastic directly on my eyeball. My wife wears contacts though, but she takes them out every night, I cringe just looking at her take them out...
Good luck with that eh.
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I have always been short sighted (eyes only) and have soft lenses since I was about 14. No big deal; you get used to poking around in your eye! Trick is to make sure your hands are clean! 
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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mark merrens wrote: I'm having to take them out most nights as they become very uncomfortable when I wake up.
Isn't that what is normal with lenses?
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Not any more: I believe there are lenses that you can sleep in for a month at a time (Air Optix?) though I wouldn't do it. The problem here is that it is a very dry environment; low humidity so I may go back to dailies during this part of the year.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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No idea, my eyesight is good enough not to wear glasses and my wife went to a specialist in Barcelona to get laser surgery into both eyes and never needed glasses again...
And she must have looked cool with glasses! 
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I tried contact lenses to replace my glasses, but they didn't hold enough beer.
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
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(That's an 'M')
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See, you can be amusing!
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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That is really great! Thanks for posting that link.
Marc
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The "unjust homeless".
You Americans and your consequentialism.
btw; I'm not sure if this is just an evil marketing stunt for Chromebook.
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A nice story to know. Thanks for sharing.
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...is to use it.
Came across numerous instances of this Ruby code for the project I'm working on:
number_to_currency(@total_backed, unit: 'R$', precision: 0, delimiter: '.')
Now, number_to_currency is a nice function provided by Rails that converts a number based on your locale however, the above code completely defeats that by specifying the Brazilian Real and Euro formatting. Why bother with the function call, except that it puts in the delimeters?
Marc
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This code qualifies for The Weird and the Wonderful. 
Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.
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That sounds international to me. 
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Marc Clifton wrote: Why bother with the function call, except that it puts in the delimeters?
One might suppose that the application is in fact dealing with the Real and thus, regardless if someones locale might be the dollar or euro the application must still show the Real. (Noting of course that currency conversion on the fly is not something that someone wants to normally add into an application.)
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jschell wrote: One might suppose that the application is in fact dealing with the Real
You have a point - the payment system they use is something called MOiP which works with Brazilian currency. The whole site seems hardwired for R$.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: called MOiP which works with Brazilian currency. The whole site seems hardwired
for R$
Certainly if I was using the first then I would require the second.
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jschell wrote: Certainly if I was using the first then I would require the second.
Makes sense, except there's this whole English translation that they also support, including PayPal payments. Well, I guess they started with just a Brazilian site, and due to popularity, have been adding support for other countries. My biggest issue right now is that, even after (supposedly) configuring their PayPal plugin to use USD, payments are still being handled as if the amount was in BRZ currency. More debugging!
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: except that it puts in the delimeters
"delimeter" n. - Unit of measure usually used in sandwich shops. (also "deli meter").
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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While using my Linked In account I pressed "People you may know" now all of the connections it suggested made sense, they were either;
1. Shared Connections (2nd & 3rd Connections).
2. Taken from my University or previous work placements.
However one of these suggestions was completely out of place, Linked in suggests I should connect with an Web Developer at Linked in, we have nothing connecting us, different country, no shared connections. Literally it's one out of place suggestion in a sea of understandable connections.
I know it's certainly possible, but what I want to know is why would you plant linked in staff in people's suggestions like that? It's a developer, do you think it was his own doing or Linked in as a company?
(edit: taken option 3 out as it has nothing to do with the conspiracy and was confusing people)
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer)
www.simonshugar.co.uk
"If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
modified 27-Sep-13 11:53am.
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Simon Lee Shugar wrote: 3. Stolen from my gmail account in which I didn't give permission (Creepy seeing
an Ex show up).
Or it could be that (s)he was looking for you/watched your profile and that's why you got suggestion. Much probable than LinkedIn and Google conspiring to steal your contact list.
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Ah the conspiracy isn't if they stole my contact list from gmail, I know they did! (You can tell because instead of "Connect" "Add to network" appears and shows the random email address from your address book.
They've got a class action law suit against them due to the stealing of contacts info on mobile phones, but anyway I think you're right that developer could well of looked at my profile and thus the suggestion.
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer)
www.simonshugar.co.uk
"If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
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He's living with the Ex...
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
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Taken option 3 out, as it has nothing to do with the conspiracy :P
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer)
www.simonshugar.co.uk
"If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
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That's what they want you to think! 
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
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