bmason

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by bmason 16y ago
I second this. I like the visual design a lot though.
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by bmason 16y ago
It's not so much that HTTP itself is RESTful. It's more that using HTTP's existing functionality instead of reinventing your own is RESTful. REST is a set of design principles for building software on top of HTTP.
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by bmason 16y ago
The only thing I'd do differently here is put the comments and author links as <link rel/> tags as well. No reason not to standardize the representation of links. Optionally you could list inline the entire contents of the sub-res
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by bmason 16y ago
This article doesn't really clarify things for me. I agree that not many APIs in the wild right now are truly RESTful, but this has been stated for years. We know this. The article then posits that true REST is too hard. This is simply
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by bmason 16y ago
I've taken small example programs written in C# and pasted them into a java environment, changed the library references and I'm good to go. But doing that with 100k lines of code is quite another level. Still, I think the syntax and desig
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by bmason 17y ago
The statement was that Mono is crippled. Last I checked, Mono was lagging at least one major release behind Microsoft's CLR. So if you're using fancy new features, you'll probably have to refactor to gain cross platform support, and even
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by bmason 17y ago
This seems like a bastardization of FP. I've been studying Clojure for the last few months and I'm amazed at the elegance of Lisp syntax. Maybe the perens have corrupted my brain, but F# just looks really ugly to me. It looks like Micros
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by bmason 17y ago
What you say about the experiment results is true. I don't know if this one is any better, but the guy who gave this TED talk found similar results when looking for communities having people with the longest life spans: http://www.ted.com
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by bmason 17y ago
Maybe focus on what you're doing instead of what you've done. Be nice to people and find ways to help them out with their problems. Instead of listing out your credentials express your willingness to help. This seems to be the approach th