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by rarestblog 16y ago
It turns out (just read an article in Russian) that recently there was a huge DDOS attack (100+ Gbit/s) that dropped major providers in Europe, DARPA(.mil), major Russian search engine. 100GBit/s is enough to fill major landlines and backbo
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by rarestblog 16y ago
if facebook.is_async() and google_analytics.is_async(): raise WebmastersSalary("Awesome job!")
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by rarestblog 16y ago
Not that simple, won't work on most browsers. Also if script has document.write inside - will fail. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1834077/browser-support-f...
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by rarestblog 16y ago
I'm not behind China firewall. I'm in Russia (near Moscow).
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by rarestblog 16y ago
It's not at network level, it's probably at service level. Service takes too long to respond (overloaded, not enough bandwidth, real-time replication, deadlocks - you guess it). I don't know how widespread is the problem, but I'm on a major
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by rarestblog 16y ago
I have written a very simple tester for these problems that you can use to diagnose your own site: http://whiteposts.com/not-async Now also shows the code to be replaced to make calls async. If you like the tool - please upvote it at htt
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Tool for detecting "social widgets" problems on your site(whiteposts.com)
36 points by rarestblog 16y ago|2 comments
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by rarestblog 16y ago
Yes, thank you, I've forgot to mention it. It will work for StatCounter and Twitter though.
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by rarestblog 16y ago
Sorry, but you aren't right. Those are mostly located in body tag. They are requested as soon as encountered by browser, because they might issue "document.write", so the execution of rest of HTML is delayed until that "src" is loaded. That
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by rarestblog 16y ago
Download Google Chrome, open your site, hit Ctrl+Shift+J, click Resources, look for loooooong lines and see what they are. Everything to the right of blue line is mostly safe (async). Also open your HTML source and search for src="http , l
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by rarestblog 16y ago
No. I have 180ms stable ping to news.YC, stable 40ms ping to Google. It's not a line problem. Chrome Dev Tools show me that I receive content within 300-400ms of hitting the page with all the images loading in about 2-3 seconds... and t
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by rarestblog 16y ago
Well, they kind of do. It's just that sometimes their CDNs have serious hiccups and ALL sites that use non-async code are affected (when they shouldn't be). I'm really surprised at Twitter. They have good engineers, why are they giving you
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Tell HN: Your social widgets are losing you visitors right now
306 points by rarestblog 16y ago|73 comments
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by rarestblog 16y ago
I'm glad we agree. Yes, it was symbiotic, that's why it was "kind of" fair play until NOW. Now they're pulling the blanket to their side and it starts to get parasitic.
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by rarestblog 16y ago
First of all - majority of users don't use extensions. If 0.1% of people see my content stolen somewhere - fine, take it, I don't care. If 99.9% of users suddenly could see my content on Google - hey, that's a BIG problem. Second - thumbnai
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by rarestblog 16y ago
Don't you USUALLY read editorial type news on the site you know, instead of SEARCHING for it? Do you seriously think that "research and shopping" doesn't constitute overwhelming majority of searches? Do you seriously assume that searching f
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by rarestblog 16y ago
Imagine this: you search for some topic. You hover over one result and get a pretty big chunk of text about that topic, you hover over the next one - you get one more big chunk of text, you hover over 2-4 more - you've all the information y
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by rarestblog 16y ago
You can't tell your advertiser: "Hey, your ads, probably, were shown about a hundred thousand times on Google. Well, I can't prove it, users can't click on it and also they see a random frame from your ads (if they see it at all), but still
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by rarestblog 16y ago
This is very bad. People won't have to visit the page they found - meaning no visit, no ads shown, no money. Every real content producer is going to lose BIG with this. Also this looks like World-Wide Copyright Infringement to me. Possibly,
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by rarestblog 16y ago
I fail to understand these two parts: "In STFUDD ... you don't write anything at first. " "STFU Driven Development ... its How quickly can we Shut the Fuck Up and write something?" So, which is it - don't write or write quickly? I also fail
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by rarestblog 16y ago
Try Swype.
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by rarestblog 16y ago
Hmm, doing this seems to be slower than actually writing a text.
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by rarestblog 16y ago
Simple API looks really simple, something that I definitely like! How do you plan to accept payments? How much would Houdini itself cost (per task, per month?)? Do you plan to accept non-US users?
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by rarestblog 16y ago
And here's why you shouldn't http://www.amazon.com/4-Hour-Workweek-Escape-Live-Anywhere/p...
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by rarestblog 16y ago
Thanks for the correction! I thought those two were the same.
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by rarestblog 16y ago
Yes. First image is fake too.
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by rarestblog 16y ago
All I see is "Forbidden - Users from your country are not permitted to browse this site."
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by rarestblog 16y ago
The image used in article is a known hoax (it's a stock image, not a real scanner result). http://www.tatumba.com/blog/archives/1369 Compare with: http://www.kelowna.com/2010/04/08/kelowna-airport-using-full...
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by rarestblog 16y ago
"gust", not "guest"
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by rarestblog 16y ago
While watching YouTube video - my CPU load from browser is about 15-20%, that means YouTube player "steals" up to 400 million CPU cycles each second!.. There's nothing to worry about.

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