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by davewasmer 15y ago
The real moral of the story: prices are the only effective mechanism for the efficient allocation of higher order goods.
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by davewasmer 15y ago
I agree that survivorship bias is something to watch out for. Stories that tend to do well on HN are the ones that end well. However, I don't think that should hold back someone who is in the same position I was (a longtime lurker trying to
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by davewasmer 15y ago
A far better quote than the one I used in the article - thanks for this one, I'll be hanging on it!
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If2D - Fun with Ruby, Lambdas, and Whitespace(davewasmer.tumblr.com)
1 points by davewasmer 15y ago|0 comments
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by davewasmer 15y ago
I don't think I was clear enough on that point - I didn't mean that the session state itself would be accessed as a REST resource. I imagine the session state would consist of client side Javascript (since this service would be ideal for th
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by davewasmer 15y ago
I'm not sure. It certainly couldn't handle every use case, but maybe with some convention-style configurations (e.g. a record created via a POST to /users would hash any "password" field) you could handle a bunch of typical web app scenario
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by davewasmer 15y ago
If it were to operate as simply a REST API, then the service could simply return everything via JSONP to avoid the CORS trap.
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by davewasmer 15y ago
True, but don't those services require schema definitions and similar setup? It seems like a lot of prototyping could be sped up by simply inferring relationships based on RESTful URLs and relying on schema-less storage.
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Backend-as-a-service for web apps?(davewasmer.tumblr.com)
80 points by davewasmer 15y ago|63 comments