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by bct 18y ago
I see that we're deep into the backlash phase of the hype cycle.
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by bct 18y ago
> What REST introduced is a dogma that said not only "this is good" (something no one agrees with) but "you must do it precisely this way" REST is just a description for one good way to build certain types of networked applications. I d
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by bct 18y ago
Looks like he wants Sinatra.
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by bct 18y ago
Thanks for your detailed replies. I'm not convinced that this is a major trend, but I see your point.
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by bct 18y ago
> once-RESTful protocols are becoming increasingly similar to WS-* How so?
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by bct 18y ago
Why not? It's extensible, it builds on tech people are already familiar with, and it's fast enough for most purposes. It's also got lots of good libraries for many languages, and neat tricks like bridges between it and the web browser.
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by bct 18y ago
Why not a debit card?
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by bct 18y ago
Look, it's simple: XML is a markup language. It's for documents. Don't use it for data.
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by bct 18y ago
> Surprisingly, just because it doesn't have GNU/ tacked on the front of it, a product can be innovative and interesting despite it not being Open Source. Nobody thinks that only open source (or Free) software can be interesting or inno
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by bct 18y ago
"Unless a push is built-in, some server admins may not update, leaving features unavailable depending on which server you've logged into. With the constant innovation in web apps and user demand for a more feature-rich experience, that's an
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by bct 18y ago
Take this with a grain of salt; if you read a few more articles it's pretty apparent that the guy is a crank. There's some hilarious stuff there, though.
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by bct 18y ago
That sounds suspiciously similar to this story: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=184257
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"The Semantic Web" would be better called "The Graph Web"(whydoeseverythingsuck.com)
4 points by bct 18y ago|1 comments
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by bct 18y ago
I agree that trying drugs (particularly psychedelics) is worthwhile, but your endorsement isn't very convincing.
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by bct 18y ago
How widely are those deployed? Can you get away with ignoring submissions from servers that don't have them set up?
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by bct 18y ago
> XMPP does little to nothing more than email in terms of sender verification. SMTP doesn't do any verification at all, does it? XMPP uses SSL if possible and otherwise does a dialback so you can at least be sure the message was sent fr
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by bct 18y ago
I'm submitting this because it's entertaining, not because I think it's informative or insightful. The guy's a kook.
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State Changes Are Essential to Reliability; Functional Programming Is an Abomination(rebelscience.blogspot.com)
1 points by bct 18y ago|2 comments
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by bct 18y ago
This is our society we're talking about. We don't all deal with these problems on a regular basis, but we're certainly not "on the outside looking in". Besides that, I don't think anyone thinks that outsiders always have the best solutions.
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by bct 18y ago
It's not anarchist unless the police have no fiat authority. The local community doesn't have the power to keep state-granted authority (as opposed to "we know you, and we respect and trust you" authority) in check.
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by bct 18y ago
The structure of everything needs to be changed for that to work though. That kind of power centralized in a small group is just begging for abuse, unless there's someone trustworthy to prevent it.
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by bct 18y ago
I think we do have a pretty good idea how the legal system is built and what it's toolset is. More importantly, what a police officer is allowed to do has a much bigger effect on my life (and yours) than how Twitter handles their scaling
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by bct 18y ago
50 gallons of horse shit for a dollar? Factoring in transportation, the labour required to package it up (not to mention the size of operation required to generate millions of gallons in the first place) - that's just unrealistic, even buyi
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by bct 18y ago
It's pretty straightforward relative to SVN.
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by bct 18y ago
It's a collection of transactions. What's unRESTful about that? Collections of things are a very common REST pattern. Naturally you would also want a URI for each account, and it might make sense to have many different collections of transa
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by bct 18y ago
The RESTful way to do that would be something like: POST /transactions from: /accounts/savings to: /accounts/chequing amount: 123.45 Generally the proper way to do something atomically is to do it in a single request
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by bct 18y ago
Can you give an example?
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by bct 18y ago
My bank's (CIBC) isn't terrible, but I wish I didn't have to screen-scrape it just to download a list of my transactions.
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by bct 18y ago
It has a very solid definition (as given in the original thesis http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm ). It's blurred because a lot of people latch onto the wrong things or get it wrong and spread those misconception
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by bct 18y ago
What about OpenMoko? The second major revision of their hardware just went into mass production and is supposed to be available Real Soon Now.

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