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I had only started reading about patterns years after I finished college and had a decade+ worth of experience after that. My initial reaction has pretty much always been, "Oh, that? I've done that before...it has a formal name?"
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Invaluable comment, especially the Apress subscription link. Thank you very much!
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Thanks for the heads up about APress.
My wife would find it hard to knit without patterns.
In fact knitting patterns are probably amongst the earliest examples of programming instructions. 8-)
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AndyChisholm wrote: In fact knitting patterns are probably amongst the earliest examples of programming instructions. 8-)
 
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The Earth revolves around the Sun!
This may upset some people who think it revolves around them.
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But what does the Sun revolve around?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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The gravitational center of the Milky Way.
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...and the next obvious question is, what does the Milky Way orbit?
...to which the simplified answer appears to be, it doesn't orbit anything.
Emphasis on "simplified", because the longer answer is left as an exercise to the reader...
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The Milky Way does not literally orbit anything. It is a member of a galaxy cluster named the Local Group. Right now the Milky Way is falling towards Andromeda and the two galaxies will collide in about 3 billion years.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: The Milky Way does not literally orbit anything
Don't count on that: Great Attractor - Wikipedia[^]
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Yeah...I pretty much left the rest of the discussion "as an exercise to the reader". This pushes the boundaries of what I know about / I'm interested in further reading up on.
Beyond this, I'll just take what Neil deGrasse Tyson tells me for granted and nod approvingly.
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The Sun revolves around the barycenter, a point just above the surface of the Sun.
The planets do not rotate around the Sun as a fixed object, they rotate with the Sun around the effective center of gravity of them all.
In practice the barycenter in the solar system is roughly the center of gravity of the Sun and Jupiter its largest planet, although it moves around as the various planets each "do their own thing".
Andy
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OriginalGriff wrote: The Earth revolves around the Sun!
Proof?
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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It is flat, so it resembles a Frisbee doing so. (I wonder who threw it?)
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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I have met quite a few people who would dispute this. Former boss comes to mind right away
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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In the Far East, birth revolves around a son.
(OK, yeah, there's the mother, too).
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Burn the witch. Burn the witch 
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Amen
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
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And you know what, it is NOT flat either, who would have guessed ... ? 
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I suspect the original aim of this post was to point out the way News programmes/channels use the 'Breaking News' label.
If so,  It really annoys me that, in some instances, they will show the same 'breaking news' for days.  
Handy hint for broadcasters: 'breaking news' is something that has just happened. In fact, you don't even need 'breaking'! The definition of 'news' is: 'newly received or noteworthy information, especially about recent events'.
Apologies if you really were intending to start a discussion about heavenly bodies! 
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5teveH wrote: It really annoys me that, in some instances, they will show the same 'breaking news' for days.
Right. Leading to the front page being all 'breaking news' - Last time I cared to count, there were thirteen 'breaking news' stories on the same page, each with a rolling top banner in one of three or four signal colors.
In Web's infancy, I used a browser where I could hit the ESC key to stop all animations, including GIFs. In those days, you did it because running them all would consume all your available CPU capacity. I wish that back - today I have plenty of CPU capacity, but my capacity for handling visual attention catchers is being overloaded.
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Do fish have a fintastic time?
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Yes, until the oysters mussel in.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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They will have to watch for the Codfather ...
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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… or his sharks, who will make them an offal they cannot refuse.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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