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Re: I compiled 40,000+ driving test questions for 11 countries. What do you think?

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Post by rorrr2 » Wed, May 08, 2013, 4:48 AM UTC

mrbrianholland wrote: post #10

rorrr2 wrote: post #7

When doing a practice test, your app does a crazy number of requests to the server for each question. Why not load all questions/answers at the same time? That would improve the speed tremendously and would reduce the load on your servers.

For the app or website?

I've only tried the website.

Re: I compiled 40,000+ driving test questions for 11 countries. What do you think?

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Post by mrbrianholland » Wed, May 08, 2013, 4:49 AM UTC

mrbrianholland wrote: post #29

swatkat wrote: post #27

Clicking on menus (about us, car insurance etc.) throws this error: Fatal error: Call to a member function FetchRow() on a non-object in /hermes/bosweb26a/b2005/ipg.monologixcom/drivingtests101/page_content.php on line 8 Fatal error: Call to a member function FetchRow() on a non-object in /hermes/bosweb26a/b2005/ipg.monologixcom/drivingtests101/car_insurance.php on line 12 Also, drop-down list is empty! Chromium on W…

Thanks. Either server is down or I just got hacked...

Footer toolbar completely missing, state dropdown box missing, country dropdown box doesn't work, tabs at top don't work. Server crash or hack?

Re: I compiled 40,000+ driving test questions for 11 countries. What do you think?

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Post by mrbrianholland » Wed, May 08, 2013, 4:49 AM UTC

swatkat wrote: post #30

mrbrianholland wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks. Either server is down or I just got hacked...

Maybe server's down due to HN effect :) Why do you think it's hacked? Edit: It's working fine now.

Back. Server is back!

Re: I compiled 40,000+ driving test questions for 11 countries. What do you think?

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Post by mrbrianholland » Wed, May 08, 2013, 4:54 AM UTC

rorrr2 wrote: post #31

mrbrianholland wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For the app or website?

I've only tried the website.

Thanks, I will look into this

Re: I compiled 40,000+ driving test questions for 11 countries. What do you think?

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Post by mrbrianholland » Wed, May 08, 2013, 4:54 AM UTC

thefarm wrote: post #11

Apps are very useful for on the go studying. Great resource, im glad you posted it! Will pass this on to my friends kid.

Cheers

Re: I compiled 40,000+ driving test questions for 11 countries. What do you think?

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Post by swatkat » Wed, May 08, 2013, 4:58 AM UTC

mrbrianholland wrote: post #33

swatkat wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe server's down due to HN effect :) Why do you think it's hacked? Edit: It's working fine now.

Back. Server is back!

Thanks. I just browsed through few tests. Good work :)

Re: I compiled 40,000+ driving test questions for 11 countries. What do you think?

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Post by ewbuoi » Wed, May 08, 2013, 4:58 AM UTC

I got this error instead of question #3 for the Hawaii Motorcycle test:

Fatal error: Call to a member function numRows() on a non-object in /hermes/bosweb26a/b2005/ipg.monologixcom/drivingtests101/state.php on line 479

Re: I compiled 40,000+ driving test questions for 11 countries. What do you think?

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Post by mrbrianholland » Wed, May 08, 2013, 5:04 AM UTC

ewbuoi wrote: post #37

I got this error instead of question #3 for the Hawaii Motorcycle test: Fatal error: Call to a member function numRows() on a non-object in /hermes/bosweb26a/b2005/ipg.monologixcom/drivingtests101/state.php on line 479

Thanks. Server went down, but is now back-up. Received a significant amount of traffic in last hour!

Re: I compiled 40,000+ driving test questions for 11 countries. What do you think?

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Post by DanBC » Wed, May 08, 2013, 5:38 AM UTC

scrapcode wrote: post #19

"Select you Country" doesn't work at all. Gives me nothing. Design looks like the 'era after geocities' when the ability to create gradients was first invented... I'm really not trying to bash you. Initiative is always good, but who decides this is first page material? It has 10 pts and 17 comments... I've been noticing lately that there is a huge amount of trash coming into HN rather than what I am used to being ove…

> who decides this is first page material? It has 10 pts and 17 comments...

People voting decide what makes the front page or not. Sometimes they vote for the wrong things (purely political stories; celebrity fluff; etc.) This is not an example of wrong voting. Most ShowHNs deserve front page coverage.

> I've been noticing lately that there is a huge amount of trash coming into HN rather than what I am used to being over-the-top, higher-quality-than-usual news and/or products.

You claim that you're not trying to bash OP, but the next words you say are really negative.

Your account is less than a year old. Please re-read the guidelines.

(http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

> Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did.

> If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)

Re: I compiled 40,000+ driving test questions for 11 countries. What do you think?

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Post by vxNsr » Wed, May 08, 2013, 5:40 AM UTC

While it seems like a great idea, you are gonna need to get more servers if you want to play with the big boys, I can't seem to get anywhere, clicking any link throws an error and the drop down menu is empty. Also I can see elements appear on the page as I download them... I haven't experienced that since 2004.

Still +1 for idea/effort