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Re: How many people are in space right now?

#52

Ooh, I've been wanting to make an iOS app for something for a while now. This should be a nice easy thing to sink my teeth into.

Why the downvote? Having this but in an app would be cool :)

I didn't downvote, but I'm not sure why cloning this into a native IOS app is such a cool thing. As long as it works in the browser, it's not really that interactive or performance intensive so you wouldn't get any of the benefits of a native app. If you just need something to use to learn to make a native IOS app, this will work, but I don't see any reason to do it other than that.

Re: How many people are in space right now?

#53

Some people are gonna be really really happy they felt lucky. Wow, now that I think about it for a moment, I realized no one ever feels lucky these days. As soon as the search bar on Google's homepage is filled, the form is auto submitted.

I feel lucky all the time. You can change your search settings so that this doesn't happen. Kind of strange that they even show the Feeling Lucky button when this feature is enabled though. You can also use I'm Feeling Lucky via the URL by adding the query parameter btnI

ie. for the query "How Many People Are In Space Right Now"

google.com/search?q=How+Many+People+Are+In+Space+Right+Now&btnI

Re: How many people are in space right now?

#54
post #47

Some people are gonna be really really happy they felt lucky. Wow, now that I think about it for a moment, I realized no one ever feels lucky these days. As soon as the search bar on Google's homepage is filled, the form is auto submitted.

I think you posted to the wrong thread. (What thread were you trying to post to?)

He's referring to the fact that the URL is in spoken question form. So people going to Google and querying "How Many People Are In Space Right Now" and using the I'm Feeling Lucky search will be brought directly to the site.

Re: How many people are in space right now?

#55

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It's not true that there's "no downside" to using CloudFlare. They've had outages in the past which have taken client sites offline [1], for one thing. Speaking personally, I've experienced subtle errors that have disappeared when I've moved my sites off the service. CloudFlare may well be great for some people, but it's not perfect. [1] http://blog.cloudflare.com/todays-outage-post-mortem-82515

Also, if you have a faster server than their infrastructure, it slows you down quite a bit. Also, it catches bot traffic for a while but then they figure out how to get around it.

Also also, their "are you human" checks tend to show up more often than they should for legitimate users at the default security settings.

Re: How many people are in space right now?

#56
post #35

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Correct. If you click the image or just scroll down you can see the names.

I have Ghostery, and I just get a big blank page with a "0" on it. I'm assuming the GP has the same.

I believe the current "0" is because the json file is having problems being served.

Re: How many people are in space right now?

#57
post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why the downvote? Having this but in an app would be cool :)

I didn't downvote, but I'm not sure why cloning this into a native IOS app is such a cool thing. As long as it works in the browser, it's not really that interactive or performance intensive so you wouldn't get any of the benefits of a native app. If you just need something to use to learn to make a native IOS app, this will work, but I don't see any reason to do it other than that.

Which is exactly what I'll be doing - learning. I've made Android applications (some are in the Play store), but iOS and Objective-C is something I want to learn now.

Re: How many people are in space right now?

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post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Correct. If you click the image or just scroll down you can see the names.

I have Ghostery, and I just get a big blank page with a "0" on it. I'm assuming the GP has the same.

Don't think it's a Ghostery issue, shows up fine fromt here with that running.
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