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Re: Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine

#101

Post by ourcat »

vortico wrote: post #93
iampims wrote: post #87

> Warning: mysql_connect(): User yingling_sandbox already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connections in /home/content/41/5598741/html/random/calvin_and_hobbes/search.php on line 10 Unable to connect to database! Please try again later.

I'm always curious why the default behavior of many server frameworks exposes so much information. I think it should just drop the connection by default for this error.

You can change that in the php.ini to set the levels of Warnings/Errors to show if you want to. (And also naturally the MySQL config, to allow more connections)

But if you were the developer of this code, it's useful to pinpoint what went wrong and where.

This is a common "HN Hug-of-Death" ;)

Re: Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine

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Post by Abishek_Muthian »

vortico wrote: post #93
iampims wrote: post #87

> Warning: mysql_connect(): User yingling_sandbox already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connections in /home/content/41/5598741/html/random/calvin_and_hobbes/search.php on line 10 Unable to connect to database! Please try again later.

I'm always curious why the default behavior of many server frameworks exposes so much information. I think it should just drop the connection by default for this error.

Recommended practice in server frameworks is to control the information in the errors according to the environment i.e. Development|Production.

But many websites fail to do so.

Re: Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine

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Post by webmobdev »

vortico wrote: post #93
iampims wrote: post #87

> Warning: mysql_connect(): User yingling_sandbox already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connections in /home/content/41/5598741/html/random/calvin_and_hobbes/search.php on line 10 Unable to connect to database! Please try again later.

I'm always curious why the default behavior of many server frameworks exposes so much information. I think it should just drop the connection by default for this error.

It's to aid the developer during development. All of them provide ways to hide this in production. But most developers remain ignorant or are lazy to bother about it.

Re: Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine

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Post by macintux »

sjg007 wrote: post #57

I remember a comic strip I attribute to Calvin and Hobbes where Calvin basically adopts every world religion in order to take every day off of school. But I can't find it.. any one know which one I am thinking of? Or do I have it wrong?

I regret I’m 20 years past my “have the entire opus memorized” days, but that doesn’t ring any bells.

Re: Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine

#107

Post by chrismcb »

ryantgtg wrote: post #28
roughly wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I grew up on Calvin and Hobbes, but in retrospect it's not terribly surprising Bill Watterson eventually decided to fuck off into the woods.

My wife and I aren’t having the greatest time reading them to our toddler (she’s probably too young for them, but she says she really likes them). Calvin’s parents don’t like him! I don’t like exposing her to parents who are resentful toward their kid. Also, shortly after he retired Bill Watterson ate at my dad’s restaurant. My dad recognized his name on the check, and told him how much of a fan I was. Bill then drew…

they don't resent him. They absolutely love him. He can be a handful at times (what is isn't?) but they do love him.

Re: Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine

#108

Post by macintux »

optimalsolver wrote: post #80

For fans of both Calvin and Frank Herbert's Dune, I give you Calvin & Muad'Dib: https://calvinanddune.tumblr.com/

I don’t know what impresses me the most: the concept, the execution, the fact that permission was sought, or the fact that permission was granted.

Re: Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine

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Post by ryantgtg »

avalys wrote: post #38
ryantgtg wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My wife and I aren’t having the greatest time reading them to our toddler (she’s probably too young for them, but she says she really likes them). Calvin’s parents don’t like him! I don’t like exposing her to parents who are resentful toward their kid. Also, shortly after he retired Bill Watterson ate at my dad’s restaurant. My dad recognized his name on the check, and told him how much of a fan I was. Bill then drew…

There are plenty of C&H strips that show his parents love him. This one comes to mind, but there are many others: https://i.redd.it/wgwm23u9k4sx.png Kids are not stupid and you don't need to insulate them from everything that isn't 100% happy, fluffy and wonderful. As a former kid who had loving parents and loved C&H, the only message I remember taking from the strip in this regard was that parents are people too and…

Sure, but we started reading them to my daughter when she was about 20 months old. I don’t think it’s being over-protective to gloss over the dozens and dozens of times (to every one happy moment like the one you chose) when the parents express regrets at choosing to have a kid. They didn’t even go to his school play!

I mean, I loved it, too, growing up. I still think it’s great. But some things ring differently as an adult with a kid. And I can wait a bit to expose my kid to that.

Re: Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine

#110

Post by pugworthy »

Mediterraneo10 wrote: post #16
chmod600 wrote: post #11

Read this series (click next a few times to see them all): https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1992/05/05 It looks like it was written yesterday, but it's 30 years old.

Watterson could offer some biting social commentary, but towards the end of C&H's run he had also become a sort of curmudgeonly old man. For example, there are strips where he depicts modern art as being just as bunch of phoneys trying to hoodwink one another, but I know a few abstract artists personally and they are very sincere about the work they are creating (primarily for themselves, to scratch an inner itch), e…

Really? We are voting some guy into oblivion because we don't like his take on Calvin and Hobbes?

Let people have their opinions and interpretations, even if you don't agree.

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