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Post by adamredwoods »

adamredwoods wrote: post #28

A mild point, but I don't think it's good copywriting to ask a yes/no question. Still, a clever website.

Downvotes: I've worked in advertising for over 10 years. Most copywriters try to avoid the direct yes/no questions in headlines. For effective headlines, go scan the cover of a Cosmopolitan magazine.

Re: I’m a freelance copywriter

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Post by greendestiny_re »

oferzelig wrote: post #56

Can someone explain this phenomenon to me: http://i.imgur.com/lIAwLXP.png

We do what our friends do and upvote what is already upvoted. When the two identical links got posted, the first few drive-by voters opted for the first rather than the second. Other late clickers simply upvoted what was already upvoted. The derogatory term for that is "hivemind" and the effect is fairly common on Reddit or any other social media with anonymous users.

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Post by ge96 »

harel wrote: post #106
ge96 wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there a way to DDOS your self on purpose? I want to bench mark my servers. I saw that there are some tools, damn... need to refer to some old forum threads...

ab - https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/programs/ab.html

Thanks I'll check that out.

Re: I’m a freelance copywriter

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Post by jnbiche »

jdietrich wrote: post #63
aerovistae wrote: post #12

Are websites like that supposed to carry a warning for epileptics?

There are W3C recommendations on photosensitive epilepsy; the key recommendation is to keep the flash rate of any large area of the screen below 3Hz. This recommendation follows broadcast television standards. The flash rate on this site is 2Hz, so it poses a relatively low risk of triggering PSE. https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/#general-thresholddef

Thanks for that. I'm clearly bad at estimating the frequency, since I thought it was probably below the threshold recommended. Glad to know I was wrong.

Re: I’m a freelance copywriter

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Post by gjm11 »

pcf wrote: post #40
gjm11 wrote: post #32

Trifling bug report (but in this sort of thing it's worth getting the details right): one of the versions has "fewawards" instead of "few awards". [EDITED to add:] Er, I was assuming that this was posted by the person who wrote it and that the latter is therefore reading this. But it looks like it wasn't, so maybe he isn't.

Call him and let him know.

I found his email address and sent him an email. I got a reply saying the error had already been noticed. (It hasn't actually been fixed yet, though.)

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Post by helb »

ge96 wrote: post #98
harel wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A little anecdote, a few years ago I posted a link to her site here. Moments later the traffic from Hacker News took down her site and she took to Twitter to complain about the "Hackers" that brought her site down.

Is there a way to DDOS your self on purpose? I want to bench mark my servers. I saw that there are some tools, damn... need to refer to some old forum threads...

Not exactly a (D)DoS tool, but it comes quite handy, too – https://github.com/shekyan/slowhttptest

Re: I’m a freelance copywriter

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Post by ge96 »

helb wrote: post #117
ge96 wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there a way to DDOS your self on purpose? I want to bench mark my servers. I saw that there are some tools, damn... need to refer to some old forum threads...

Not exactly a (D)DoS tool, but it comes quite handy, too – https://github.com/shekyan/slowhttptest

Thanks, I was wondering how you get that "Build/Passing" thing on the GitHub.

I'm also not sure if Apache is outdated, like I should really move to NGINX or Node/Amazon, I have yet to configure overflow handling (forwarding traffic in the event of a server not being able to handle it all) I was looking at public cloud before, kind of interesting, said something like $0.010/ or maybe $0.10/GB not sure if that was storage or bandwidth but yeah. I also wonder how hard/how you should create quick "copies" or "images" of your application and then be able to forward traffic to that.

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