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Paul there seems to be a bug. I've been just entering some stuff in the application and it seems it forgets the answers that I entered for the last few questions. It also seems to be truncating answers. I entered 1 month and it truncated that to 1 mon. Is there a restriction to the length of the entire application?


This was in fact a bug. It's now fixed. Sorry about that.

If anyone cares, it was because the http server is also written in Arc, on top of MzScheme, and we misread the MzScheme doc on make-limited-input-port to believe that limit-k referred to k of bytes. In fact it refers to bytes. So while we thought we were capping http requests at 2 meg, we were in fact capping them at 2k.


That explains it. Thanks.


Can you let me know precisely how to reproduce it? Has anyone else experienced anything like this?


The simplest repro case is

1. enter text for the Q. Please tell us something surprising or amusing that one of you has discovered.....

2. Now hit update

3. Click the "edit funding application"

I expect to see the text in the last box. Instead it says nil. When I reported the bug it used to be empty. I see the same behaviour for all questions starting from "Do you have any ideas you consider patentable?"


As answer for the question:

If one wanted to buy you three months in (August 2007), what's the lowest offer you'd take?

I entered:

1 million

all I can see is:

1


For the question:

Why would your project be hard for someone else to duplicate?

I entered: Don't know

I can only see:

Don

I also tried Dont know

still only see Don


This is weird. I believe you, but I can't reproduce it. Can you send me an email at pg@ycombinator.com?


I tried it again and it seems to work fine. Thanks for looking at it.




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