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Re: Tell HN: Launch HN Test

#31
post #6

Never let a good crisis go to waste: I'm launching https://20-things.com/ :) Could use a good load test ;)

Error 1020 Ray ID: 57e1700a4e91b87b • 2020-04-03 08:32:11 UTC Access denied What happened? This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. Looks like you got what you wanted...

Sorry about that, this was just CF Geo firewall kicking in. I disabled it as it makes no sense to use it in this day and age.

Re: Tell HN: Launch HN Test

#32

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Also, how does he know that number-containing strings will work if the title isn't "Test123"??

"0123Test" is a better number-containing string for testing, to catch out things that try to interpret the string as a number first and then as a string if that fails. For example, JS's insane parseInt function will give you 123 for "0123Test".

   > parseInt("0123Test")
   123
   > 0123
   83
parseInt is actually the adult in the room

Re: Tell HN: Launch HN Test

#33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also, how does he know that number-containing strings will work if the title isn't "Test123"??

"0123Test" is a better number-containing string for testing, to catch out things that try to interpret the string as a number first and then as a string if that fails. For example, JS's insane parseInt function will give you 123 for "0123Test".

That leading 0 is also useful for the things that try to interpret the string as number first and are able to understand octal.

Re: Tell HN: Launch HN Test

#34
post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"0123Test" is a better number-containing string for testing, to catch out things that try to interpret the string as a number first and then as a string if that fails. For example, JS's insane parseInt function will give you 123 for "0123Test".

> parseInt("0123Test") 123 > 0123 83 parseInt is actually the adult in the room

In a way. The convention is that 0123 is "123" in octal.

Re: Tell HN: Launch HN Test

#35

  Is this a Launch?
  No, this is a Test.
  Did it work?
  It should.
  Dang!
  What?
  The one thing that can ruin the test - it happened. Upvotes.
  Quite gruseom.
Sorry - time hangs heavy some days.

Re: Tell HN: Launch HN Test

#36
post #31

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Error 1020 Ray ID: 57e1700a4e91b87b • 2020-04-03 08:32:11 UTC Access denied What happened? This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. Looks like you got what you wanted...

Sorry about that, this was just CF Geo firewall kicking in. I disabled it as it makes no sense to use it in this day and age.

Error 522 Ray ID: 57e1b052bb7bf2c8 • 2020-04-03 09:16:36 UTC

Connection timed out

:)

Re: Tell HN: Launch HN Test

#37
post #28

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The latter two comments seem pretty useful feedback though

But not interesting.

[edit: before you read on bare please in mind I'm not advocating comments be enabled (like many others have assumed).]

I think it's a little redundant making a distinction between "useful" and "interesting" because either way the comment has value. However I do agree with the points you made in your other comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22767319) and that the examples given of useful/interesting comments by the GP doesn't offer a high enough value to justify the inevitable negative and other low value comments. Which I think is the real crux of the matter. Much like why political discussions are generally banned on here, the signal to noise ratio just isn't worth the few valuable comments a submission might receive.

Re: Tell HN: Launch HN Test

#38
post #24

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Sending even tens of thousands of SMS is very cheap, just how limited is that budget? :)

A few hundred people with US numbers should be able to sign up, but sending SMS overseas is much more expensive. For example, sending to Switzerland: $0.069 per SMS.

That's insane, but in line with what other (local) sms gateways charge here.

But do you really need my phone number?

Re: Tell HN: Launch HN Test

#39
post #31

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Sorry about that, this was just CF Geo firewall kicking in. I disabled it as it makes no sense to use it in this day and age.

Error 522 Ray ID: 57e1b052bb7bf2c8 • 2020-04-03 09:16:36 UTC Connection timed out :)

Works on my machine :D Did you try restarting your computer? Joking aside, all requests are served in milliseconds, there are no queues.

Re: Tell HN: Launch HN Test

#40
post #39

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Error 522 Ray ID: 57e1b052bb7bf2c8 • 2020-04-03 09:16:36 UTC Connection timed out :)

Works on my machine :D Did you try restarting your computer? Joking aside, all requests are served in milliseconds, there are no queues.

I am not kidding. The website is unreachable for me from Poland.

https://i.imgur.com/aQddPrf.png

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