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Well, each time I go to twitter.com I hope to see something slightly different than last time and that's not part of the internet being broken.
by bobfunk 16y ago
Well, each time I go to twitter.com I hope to see something slightly different than last time and that's not part of the internet being broken.
- gattone 16y agoYes, but each time you go, the input data (like the microsecond since 1970) is different.
- jrockway 16y agoNo. If Twitter were purely funtional, which it is not, twitter.com would be a pointer to twitter.com/<state>, where twitter.com/<state> changed every time someone tweeted. twitter.com/234987kdsjlhfsad would always be the same page. It's the auto-redirect to the current state that makes twitter.com appear to change. If you use git, it's like the HEAD reference. It's a pointer to the immutable commit. The reference itself is mutable.