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My God, It’s Full of Dots
- codefreq 7y agoIt does not open.
- sundayedition 7y agoMy God, It Never Loads Edit: it did finally load. Its an interesting article and worth the wait, I thought
- shakna 7y ago20,450ms TTFB for me. Which is extremely long. However the demonstrations are great, and some of the programs are inherently computationally expensive, so its sort of expected.
- css 7y ago26.79s for the document and 29.90s for the stylesheet (123kb and 9.7kb, respectively) in series for me. Took over 60s for all the content to load.
- vanderZwan 7y agoI'm wondering what is causing the congestion - it's not exactly a lot of data
- laumars 7y agoProbably just volume of traffic rather than the size of the assets. Not everyone's personal site is hosted on auto-scaling could services et al. So often you'll see stuff get "hugged to death" (as it's affectionately known) just due to the site's own popularity.
- mjaniczek 7y agoI believe all the programs do only clientside computations, so I wouldn't expect the TTFB to be long because of them.
- pinko 7y agoThis seems like something that would be perfect in a Jupyter Notebook or the like.
- GrumpyNl 7y agotakes a while, worth the wait.
- bit-player 7y agoAuthor here. Thanks for waiting. It's 5,000 words and 2,000 lines of javascript, plus a few fair-size images, which may explain the long TTFB. But most of the delay is not bandwidth limits but PHP and SQL. The site runs on a creaky WordPress implementation. Someday I'll fix that, if I live so long.
- cllkvls 7y agoOk no pro
- cllkvls 7y agoKeybase karma > 2
- cllkvls 7y agoMy god
- ysavir 7y agoIn case the author is reading this: > Sorry. My program and your browser are not getting along. None of the interactive elements of this page will work. Could you try a different browser? Current versions of Chrome, Firefox, and Safari seem to work. The message is very appreciated. However, the way it blends seamlessly into the text around makes it seem like a natural part of the article. At first I thought it was intentional and that the article was going to be commentary on sites that don't work well on some or most browsers. Adding something to distinguish this text from the rest, and show that there is an actual element on the page missing, may be helpful here. (and for clarity's sake, this was triggered because I hadn't whitelisted JS on the site. It worked fine once I allowed it)
- MrGilbert 7y ago> (and for clarity's sake, this was triggered because I hadn't whitelisted JS on the site. It worked fine once I allowed it) Oh well... Because it didn't load for me, I though it got "hugged to death" by HN. Smart-Me™ went over to archive.org and happily discovered that it got already indexed. I skimmed the article and was confused. Obviously, archive.org does not mirror the javascript - so it will never execute. I didn't notice the message was an actual error either.
- AndrewStephens 7y agoI love this type of long, interactive deep-dive into a particular topic. The site is loading veeeery slowly but it is worth waiting a minute for it to appear. So much content to ingest.
- onemoresoop 7y agoIt does load for me after more than a minute which is understandably caused by the hug of death.
- gigama 7y agoVery cool, exploring math visually like this fills me with harmonic happiness.