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by bct 13y ago
Power existing where capital pools is exactly what capitalism is. What did you expect?
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by bct 13y ago
> If everyone in the world decided tomorrow to stop investing in gold, you could still sell any gold you had for an amount based on its utility. The worth of that guarantee depends on what that amount is. If the utility-based price is 1
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by bct 13y ago
That has all the disadvantages of using POST for everything, with the added disadvantage of requiring developers to read more documentation. Are there any advantages?
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by bct 13y ago
That comment is a reference to another post on the front page of Crooked Timber right now: http://crookedtimber.org/2013/04/17/annals-of-the-gold-stand...
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by bct 13y ago
I've written Atom Publishing Protocol servers that use it. It's not badly-suited for non-browser tasks (although yes, SSL and Basic is much simpler - if you don't mind paying for the certificate). It's unusual, but it's pretty unusual to us
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by bct 13y ago
I'm pretty sure he means RFC 2617 Digest authentication. There's nothing browser-specific about it.
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by bct 14y ago
git diff --ignore-space-at-eol
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by bct 14y ago
No.
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by bct 14y ago
What kind of "stuff"?
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by bct 14y ago
"The web" isn't exactly a well-defined concept. There's a school of thought in which anything with a URI is part of the web.
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by bct 14y ago
That's the point: the pressure was only effective because they were put forth by minority governments. Majority governments have a much freer hand.
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by bct 14y ago
The last 2 copyright reform bills (that I'm aware of - one circa 2008 and one circa 2012?) were both put forth by minority governments.
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by bct 14y ago
libjingle has been around for years; Wikipedia says December 2005. (It doesn't matter, but I also raised an eyebrow and started looking for the date on the blog entry when I read that sentence.)
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by bct 14y ago
> But what about if it was necessary to have one command that changed the state of more than one resource? Then you need to have another resource that encompasses the aspects that need to be changed. Sometimes resources have to be somew
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by bct 14y ago
Exactly. (except you would probably want to PUT the state instead of POST, since it's an idempotent operation) You would GET the lock to see if it's locked, GET the battery to read its charging state. You could PUT to the battery (or to som
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by bct 14y ago
XMPP's XML overhead isn't as large as you might think; it compresses well, and streaming XML parsers can be pretty fast. XML's extensibility is one of the reasons that XMPP has so many XEPs. A JSON-based protocol would need a central regist
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by bct 14y ago
What "conceptual mashing" is required? Your resources are things like locks, batteries and thermostats. It seems pretty straightforward to me.
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by bct 14y ago
That selects for trivial pattern-matching ability, not the ability to evaluate arguments. Engaging in productive discourse is not associated with knowing the names of fallacies.
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by bct 14y ago
I'm sympathetic to the thesis, but this is a really poor article. Read Christoper Lasch instead.
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by bct 14y ago
It is. The two joined dots just east of the mountains are Edmonton and Calgary.
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by bct 14y ago
There are many differences between that scenario and the equivalent on Facebook. Two critical ones: - the interaction is of a short, definite length. I will probably never see you again if I don't want to. - the number of real-life encounte
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by bct 14y ago
Here's one opinion on that: http://www.mnot.net/blog/2012/10/29/NO_OPTIONS
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by bct 14y ago
> Hypermedia hype has always struck me as parallel to the "semantic web" nonsense from the late 90s. That's funny, because DHH's proud ignorance about hypermedia strikes me as parallel to the usual proud ignorance about the semantic web
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by bct 14y ago
His questions about discoverability seem to assume that people are suggesting not writing any documentation at all. "The idea that you can write one client to access multiple different APIs" is a straw man. The connection he's making betwee
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by bct 14y ago
You lept to a conclusion here: > I think the original idea behind discoverability was that you could have a “RESTful client” that could in theory work with any REST service that implemented discoverability. Your analysis of that conclus
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by bct 14y ago
Some of your examples are very different from the case of "literally". "Awful" isn't a reversal of meaning, it's a narrowing of meaning. > Bolt - run away or secure in place These are homynyms, not divergent meanings. A crossbow bolt is
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by bct 14y ago
All surfraw seems to do is generate the URL for the search and opens it in a browser. Disappointing :(
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by bct 14y ago
Nobody thinks that Linux has won the desktop, but we did think that it had won the right to exist. For a while it looked like Microsoft had put its anticompetitive practices aside.
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by bct 14y ago
> evil and perverse and all that is wrong with the world That is never the implication of that standard comment.
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by bct 14y ago
bcoates left an excellent comment here that has been marked dead for no reason that I can see.

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