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How I Explained REST to My Wife

38 points by d0mine 18y ago

ivey 18y ago
This is pretty old, but is an important piece of the "What/Why REST" discussion we seem to be having here on HN.
- mwbrooks 18y ago
  I agree. My understanding of REST has became a little more clear after reading the article. Glad it was posted here.
  - OneSeventeen 18y ago
    Seconded. The whole verb/noun discussion played into my Linguistics background nicely. Now I... get it.
stcredzero 18y ago
The sexism comments bother me. They reveal a level of sensitivity to possible stereotypes that itself indicates the power these stereotypes still have. In a way, the comments are a self fulfilling prophecy. If the wife had been portrayed as being ditsy, that would be worse, though I'm not even sure that's necessarily wrong. In any case, I thought that the woman was portrayed as an inquisitive layperson able to absorb new ideas. Reminds me of this Richard Feynman story: A few diehard protesters stayed till the end of Feynman’s talk, and complained that they still didn’t like that woman-driver story: "Why did it have to be a woman driver?" they said. "You are implying that all women are bad drivers." "But the woman makes the cop look bad," I said. "Why aren’t you concerned about the cop?" "That’s what you expect from cops!" one of the protesters said. "They’re all pigs!" "But you should be concerned," I said. "I forgot to say in the story that the cop was a woman!"
- dgabriel 18y ago
  I didn't see any sexism, either, and I'm extremely sensitive to such things.
captain-m 18y ago
"She gets me going on purpose just so she can see my arms waving and the vein pop out of my head while I'm trying to describe this stuff. I don't think she really pays all that much attention to what I'm actually saying." My friends do this to me all the time. I know they don't really care but they keep asking questions until I can't resist explaining stuff to them.
Herring 18y ago
Does anyone else find it hard to care when CS types start talking about nouns, verbs & grammars?
- jrockway 18y ago
  I didn't find it hard to care, nor did I find it hard to downmod your worthless comment.
  - Herring 18y ago
    as a fellow nerd, you should have some idea how much I care about your downmod
richtaur 18y ago
Dude, you're a geek and you married a non-techie? I'm sorry :(

38 points by d0mine 18y ago

ivey 18y ago

This is pretty old, but is an important piece of the "What/Why REST" discussion we seem to be having here on HN.

mwbrooks 18y ago
I agree. My understanding of REST has became a little more clear after reading the article. Glad it was posted here.
- OneSeventeen 18y ago
  Seconded. The whole verb/noun discussion played into my Linguistics background nicely. Now I... get it.

stcredzero 18y ago

The sexism comments bother me. They reveal a level of sensitivity to possible stereotypes that itself indicates the power these stereotypes still have. In a way, the comments are a self fulfilling prophecy. If the wife had been portrayed as being ditsy, that would be worse, though I'm not even sure that's necessarily wrong. In any case, I thought that the woman was portrayed as an inquisitive layperson able to absorb new ideas. Reminds me of this Richard Feynman story: A few diehard protesters stayed till the end of Feynman’s talk, and complained that they still didn’t like that woman-driver story: "Why did it have to be a woman driver?" they said. "You are implying that all women are bad drivers." "But the woman makes the cop look bad," I said. "Why aren’t you concerned about the cop?" "That’s what you expect from cops!" one of the protesters said. "They’re all pigs!" "But you should be concerned," I said. "I forgot to say in the story that the cop was a woman!"

dgabriel 18y ago
I didn't see any sexism, either, and I'm extremely sensitive to such things.

captain-m 18y ago

"She gets me going on purpose just so she can see my arms waving and the vein pop out of my head while I'm trying to describe this stuff. I don't think she really pays all that much attention to what I'm actually saying." My friends do this to me all the time. I know they don't really care but they keep asking questions until I can't resist explaining stuff to them.

Herring 18y ago

Does anyone else find it hard to care when CS types start talking about nouns, verbs & grammars?

jrockway 18y ago
I didn't find it hard to care, nor did I find it hard to downmod your worthless comment.
- Herring 18y ago
  as a fellow nerd, you should have some idea how much I care about your downmod

richtaur 18y ago

Dude, you're a geek and you married a non-techie? I'm sorry :(