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Re:Glare from London 'fryscraper' blamed for melting cars by mikeash on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @06:33PM (#6330949)
The window coating explanation makes no sense. You test that on individual panes before installing them and see how much light it really absorbs. Either the coating underperformed, in which case they should have caught it, or the coating performed to specification but wasn't specified to block enough light, in which case they should have caught it.

I'd like to know at least one of these "1000 different reasons" why this could happen. Because I can't think of a single one, and nobody else has given me any....

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Re:Glare from London 'fryscraper' blamed for melting cars by jacobparker on Thursday September 05, 2013 @09:16AM (#6333929) 

     I'd like to know at least one of these "1000 different reasons" why this could happen. Because I can't think of a single one, and nobody else has given me any....
You would have to ask someone who does this for a living. iOS and Rails developers are not qualified to speculate. Next time you ask "how stupid could they be?" the answer is "smarter than I am, apparently".
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Re:Glare from London 'fryscraper' blamed for melting cars by mikeash on Thursday September 05, 2013 @09:46AM (#6334122)
On what basis do you make that statement, exactly? Nearly all architects go their entire career without building structures that concentrate the sun into a point hot enough to melt things. This architect has done it twice now. Sounds like he is doing something wrong, not that this is a problem inherent to the field.
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