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Yeah, I know what hyperbole means. The problem is your comment was not even in the correct direction. Hyperbole is overstating a truth, not strongly stating som
by jamesaguilar 13y ago
Yeah, I know what hyperbole means. The problem is your comment was not even in the correct direction. Hyperbole is overstating a truth, not strongly stating something false.
And, this guy is a Googler? Who knew? You know your argument is weak when your best responses are "look it up in a dictionary," and "you work for the same company hur hur."
- manarth 13y agoMy point about hyperbole was that it's "an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally". To be fair, I hadn't come across Brett's work before…but anyone writing with degree of detail about HTTP headers, referencing SPACEJUMP and PubSubHubbub has probably used curl -I and may well have worked with a REST API. My point is that the argument - we only use GET and POST - only holds water if we're talking about browsers. although I do see how people could interpret the comment differently, and we all know duty calls: http://xkcd.com/386 http://xkcd.com/386