Milagre

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by Milagre 13y ago
So all the attack vectors the NSA has used to date are based upon backdoors (voluntary or otherwise) to existing vendors? Something I've been confused and/or mislead about is that if root/CA ssl certificates are compromised,
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Ask HN: What security mechanisms have been compromised?
5 points by Milagre 13y ago|3 comments
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by Milagre 14y ago
> When you start with the point of view that we are all reasonable, and well intentioned.. the problem then becomes about process and culture, and you can actually start making progress. In my studies of nonviolent resistance, this was
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by Milagre 14y ago
> Hypermedia APIs expose a workflow, not a data model. I would say this is true of REST APIs. Not necessarily hypermedia APIs. An API that directly exposed a graph database as an HTTP-based API using hypertext/links within resources w
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by Milagre 14y ago
> Sure css, js etc are fetched, but this is hard-coded behaviour, there is nothing dynamic or discovered about it. Or I fail to understand it. It grabs the links from the content of the document it retrieved, using the rules of HTMLs st
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by Milagre 14y ago
This is a fair point! Mostly, I think that would produce an ugly API. The reason I've been leaning towards that solution is that it assigns the responsibility of locating any other resource, in one request, with full backwards compatibility
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by Milagre 14y ago
> This kind of thing sounds great for exploratory development, but undesirable (for the reasons I outlined previously) for an actual production app. We actually do this in our production app. The only URL we actually hardcode in the ap
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by Milagre 14y ago
> Apart from parsing, I am the API client in this instance. I'm the one making decisions from understanding what services are about. Your browser parses, yes, but then it goes and fetches images, css, javascript, iframes, etc. Followin
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by Milagre 14y ago
OP here. I'm not strictly advocating HATEOS. Hypermedia and HATEOS are related but not the same concept. I am very strongly advocating hypermedia, as I believe it it greatly reduces the complexity of interacting with an API. Never havin
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The Future is Hypermedia APIs(emergentone.com)
36 points by Milagre 14y ago|58 comments
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by Milagre 15y ago
You'd be smart to ask "Which ones?" before you dismiss all dev blogs as 'horse shit'. Blogs like Coding Horror and Object Mentor should gain your respect, not your disdain.
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Opportunistic Refactoring(martinfowler.com)
5 points by Milagre 15y ago|0 comments