AffableSpatula

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by AffableSpatula 15y ago
The "cache-control extensions for stale content" provide stale-while-revalidate, which seems to cover that requirement
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How Offline Web Apps Should Work(blog.stateless.co)
42 points by AffableSpatula 15y ago|25 comments
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by AffableSpatula 15y ago
banner ads are also, on the whole, a waste and annoyance; so not much of a change there It is probably fair to say most people don't care all that much provided their user experience is not noticeably impacted, but it looks like this work i
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by AffableSpatula 15y ago
I don't think this is particularly 'honorable' or anything like that.. it's the only sensible stance for them to take. Let's be realistic about this; for most people using heroku the alternative would have been bare ec2, and could easily ha
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by AffableSpatula 15y ago
Posts like this remind me of an Alan Watts quote: "It must be obvious... that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity."
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by AffableSpatula 16y ago
Yeah, caching is a type of layering
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by AffableSpatula 16y ago
if it's a big deal to make that change then their underlying architecture needs a review.
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by AffableSpatula 16y ago
It's part of the uniform interface constraint http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch...
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by AffableSpatula 16y ago
Sorry that's wrong; neither REST as a style or HTTP as an implementation are RPC. One of the key components of REST is Layering which is made possible because REST is distinct from RPC. This is covered in the dissertation: http://www.ics.u
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by AffableSpatula 16y ago
Rack is about composition and modularity of the request handling components, not just providing programmatic access to properties of an http request.
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by AffableSpatula 16y ago
It's not. Rack's a framework for composing applications of middleware/intermediary components by specifying conventions for delegating requests and responses.
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by AffableSpatula 16y ago
yes, what's your point?
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by AffableSpatula 16y ago
Cmon man, I didn't say it is impossible to build scalable web apps with it. The php landscape's lack of an equivalent to rack is an insane situation for a 'web' language, and a good example of why it's a bad choice of platform if you have t
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by AffableSpatula 16y ago
I have yet to come across a compelling web framework written in php. If re-use between projects was really of concern for their community, they would've pushed for a standard http interface like rack - which they haven't, aside from a coupl
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by AffableSpatula 16y ago
It's possible that the reason the web's still "the same old thing" is because it has been proven an effective platform for distributing services and is, _in practice_, a system that's extremely scalable and evolvable. Infact, it's so succes
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by AffableSpatula 16y ago
The term "exceptionally obvious" might be over-stating the case a bit. Please could you expand on why you think that
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by AffableSpatula 16y ago
Sure, I think Kurzweil does a decent job in framing a future within which there's plenty of room for innovation with no 'limits' to exponential growth in sight. This whole issue of limitations is a separate prediction in and of itself, and
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by AffableSpatula 16y ago
are you including stuff like Taoism in that?
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by AffableSpatula 16y ago
"The question is how close are we to the limit and that is something we are only likely to know when we reach it." You've posed the question and then immediately explained why it's fruitless to ask. Even if you are right that there must be
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by AffableSpatula 16y ago
They don't, and neither does Ray Kurzweil
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by AffableSpatula 16y ago
Ray Kurzweil was on Opie and Anthony last week (February 4, 2011).. was obviously light-hearted, but pretty decent interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHlmt5xz4RM
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by AffableSpatula 16y ago
here's the original post this one spawned from: http://blog.dloh.org/2011/01/varnish-cache-riak.html
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Peered cache invalidation for Varnish(blog.dloh.org)
3 points by AffableSpatula 16y ago|1 comments