In 1 Sentence Explain...

Post by diesellaws » Mon, Aug 01, 2011, 4:09 PM UTC

diesellaws wrote: post #26

hugh3 wrote: post #21

The problem is that you don't get a good one-sentence explanation, you get a bunch of one-sentence explanations of widely different quality, frequently contradictory. I'm not sure this would help anyone understand anything. But to test it: I currently don't understand the Diffe-Helman Key Exchange, so I'm gonna read the explanations. [pause] Error establishing database connection . Well, so much for that experiment.

In one sentence explain why the server is down: Error establishing database connection. (it worked! lol) But seriously though, thank you for your thoughts. I did not expect it to be such a hit on HN, and the website was thrown together in a couple of days. In response to this: "you get a bunch of one-sentence explanations of widely different quality, frequently contradictory." You are spot on. That is the world we li…

We have moved it to our Cloud VPS so it should now cope with the traffic. Thanks, Diesel.

Post by diesellaws » Mon, Aug 01, 2011, 4:13 PM UTC

brokentone wrote: post #30

eevilspock wrote: post #29

In one sentence explain how asinine 1sentence.com is. http://1sentence.com/in-one-sentence-explain-how-asinine-thi... Added by yours truly.

Very nice. I think the website itself provided the best answer when I visited the page: http://cl.ly/8wTr (unedited: scout's honor, and you can tell by the pixels)

Lol, yes that is a funny sentence. however, some people have found it as a good tool to get useful explanations too.

In regards to the database error, that's just because I was unprepared and did not expect 10,000+ hits in one night to a small server. We have since moved it to our VPS server, will see how that goes.

Thanks for the feedback though :)

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