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He should change the description from "hard sell" to "hard on the eyes."

jabagonuts 10y ago
Give him a break. He's a copywriter, not a designer. Come on! Although, I'm sure there are plenty of used car salesmen who would love for him to put cats wearing helmets riding on skateboards through explosions on their website.
harel 10y ago
Check out http://lingscars.com http://lingscars.com. It will desensitise you.
- sah2ed 10y ago
  Agreed. Lingscars.com is arguably the worst money-making website on the Internet [0]. [0] http://metro.co.uk/2015/02/15/welcome-to-lingscars-quite-possibly-the-worst-and-weirdest-website-on-the-internet-5063801/ http://metro.co.uk/2015/02/15/welcome-to-lingscars-quite-pos...
  - harel 10y ago
    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.
    - ge96 10y ago
      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...
      - harel 10y ago
        ab - https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/programs/ab.html https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/programs/ab.html
        ge96 10y ago
        Thanks I'll check that out.
      - helb 10y ago
        Not exactly a (D)DoS tool, but it comes quite handy, too – https://github.com/shekyan/slowhttptest https://github.com/shekyan/slowhttptest
        ge96 10y ago
        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 I'm also not sure if Apache is outdated, like I should really move to NGINX or Node/Amazon, I have yet to configure overflow handling (forwarding traffic in the event of a server not being able to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.
- HillaryBriss 10y ago
  thanks. tremendous car rental site. or whatever it is Ling does with cars. not sure. when i viewed the page, the audio soundtrack was a rendition of Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da by the Beatles. maybe a better choice would be Helter Skelter.
- sillysaurus3 10y ago
  Amazing: http://i.imgur.com/98HXL8t.jpg http://i.imgur.com/98HXL8t.jpg

Give him a break. He's a copywriter, not a designer. Come on! Although, I'm sure there are plenty of used car salesmen who would love for him to put cats wearing helmets riding on skateboards through explosions on their website.

harel 10y ago

Check out http://lingscars.com http://lingscars.com. It will desensitise you.

sah2ed 10y ago
Agreed. Lingscars.com is arguably the worst money-making website on the Internet [0]. [0] http://metro.co.uk/2015/02/15/welcome-to-lingscars-quite-possibly-the-worst-and-weirdest-website-on-the-internet-5063801/ http://metro.co.uk/2015/02/15/welcome-to-lingscars-quite-pos...
- harel 10y ago
  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.
  - ge96 10y ago
    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...
    - harel 10y ago
      ab - https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/programs/ab.html https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/programs/ab.html
      - ge96 10y ago
        Thanks I'll check that out.
    - helb 10y ago
      Not exactly a (D)DoS tool, but it comes quite handy, too – https://github.com/shekyan/slowhttptest https://github.com/shekyan/slowhttptest
      - ge96 10y ago
        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.
HillaryBriss 10y ago
thanks. tremendous car rental site. or whatever it is Ling does with cars. not sure. when i viewed the page, the audio soundtrack was a rendition of Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da by the Beatles. maybe a better choice would be Helter Skelter.
sillysaurus3 10y ago
Amazing: http://i.imgur.com/98HXL8t.jpg http://i.imgur.com/98HXL8t.jpg