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by bct 13y ago
(despite appearances uzbl is not dead, I've just been a rather bad maintainer)
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by bct 13y ago
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5023.txt There's no need to be sarcastic.
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by bct 13y ago
I think you're being too hard on it. It's difficult for me to see how a general-purpose library could cover many of those things. Could it go further, and do a better job of encouraging people to use REST? Sure. But it's tryi
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by bct 13y ago
I thought just the opposite. I was pleasantly surprised to see that it looks pretty in line with Fielding's thesis. What are you objecting to?
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by bct 13y ago
Government and industry can't betray the Internet, because they never had an obligation to it. You were naive if you ever thought you could trust them to be "ethical internet stewards". Yes, we should be angry. But we should
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by bct 13y ago
A significant portion of that grammar is for parsing DTDs, which isn't really a fair inclusion.
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by bct 13y ago
"Concentration camp" is just a Boer War-era euphemism for "prison camp".
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by bct 13y ago
I'm new to Rust and I'm not familiar with this code, but here's an attempt at an explanation anyways: The "error" function returns a struct containing the error string. I suspect the intention is to allow dynamicall
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by bct 13y ago
Organize. It's the only course of action that has ever worked. Voting/not voting/protesting/etc. are tactics that are only useful as part of a larger campaign, and as part of a large group committed to a particular goa
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by bct 13y ago
That would depend on what kind of service you're implementing. "HTTP/1.1 does not define how a PUT method affects the state of an origin server." I don't think it was ever the design or intent of PUT to store the ex
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by bct 13y ago
The server can do whatever processing it likes to a PUT's request body. If you upload a PNG it can convert it to a JPEG or an SVG or OCR it or invert the colors, etc. It's perfectly valid to turn application/x-www-form-urlenc
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by bct 13y ago
It's not an artificial restriction, it's a design constraint that allows the resulting system to have certain properties that are desirable in some circumstances. (And GET/POST/PUT/DELETE isn't CRUD.)
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by bct 13y ago
What do you mean by "self-organizing system"?
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by bct 13y ago
It's both.
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by bct 13y ago
The consistency of PDF rendering has nothing to do with it being an ISO standard. It's based on a completely different model that made different tradeoffs with respect to user-end flexibility. It was also controlled by a single company
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by bct 13y ago
Calling it a joke is a real stretch. Apparently HN is populated entirely by preteen boys who think that the word "fuck" is hilarious .
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by bct 13y ago
> JSON is also easier for humans to read than XML. That's extremely debatable.
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by bct 13y ago
That's the same kind of attitude that caused the decade of "XML for everything, and damn the technical requirements".
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by bct 13y ago
I would hope that they wouldn't do it that way; they should be sending a GET with If-Modified-Since. The same result, making half the requests.
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by bct 13y ago
People are (slightly?) less likely to do the stupid "let's generate this structure by gluing strings together" thing that produced the need for liberal Atom and RSS parsers. (But yes, I agree that "turn this already-exis
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by bct 13y ago
PaperclipTaken, your comment was excellent but has been marked "dead" for no reason that I can see.
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by bct 13y ago
It also helps ensure that it stays achieved.
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by bct 13y ago
You didn't read past the first line, did you? The experiment was in Dauphin, Manitoba.
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by bct 13y ago
No: I'm not saying you're wrong because you're a moron, I'm saying you're wrong and you're a moron. It's not an ad hominem, it's an insult.
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by bct 13y ago
Another option is a stool. Having the option to stand can make a big difference, even if you're sitting most of the time.
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by bct 13y ago
That's quite a leap you're making, from Allende to Gulags and famine. You should stick to subjects you actually know something about.
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by bct 13y ago
Your comment is not a response to the comment you replied to. In particular, it was quite clear about the flaw in question: > Mutable state makes reasoning about program behavior more difficult than necessary. You could dispute that cla
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by bct 13y ago
> Tiny self-replicating machines which produce other things to atomic precision Don't expect it to happen soon - we can't even make big self-replicating machines yet. We don't even know what machines would look like at such a small scal
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by bct 13y ago
> (the logic goes like this: if the address is the resource, the browser as a resource getter should only get the address, not the surrounds). The browser doesn't retrieve the resource, it returns a representation of the resource. A m
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by bct 13y ago
> RESTful URLs have to be nice Not by any meaningful definition of REST.

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