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by davidmathers 16y ago
As the great philosopher Inigo Montoya once said: "You keep using that word..." Let's talk about this chart for a second: http://www.google.com//finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1... Ok, see that 4000% increase in 18 months? That's wha
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by davidmathers 16y ago
Both of you (nadam and api) are arguing with a strawman, not what with Joel actually wrote: "they solve something that appears to be the template of a lot of problems" If something actually is the template to a lot of problems then obvi
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by davidmathers 16y ago
Apropos: The saying "It is not sufficient that I succeed. Everyone else must fail" has been associated with Larry Ellison so often that most people think it originated with him. Actually, it came centuries ago with Genghis Khan. Ellison ha
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Larry Summers Exit Interview [pdf](international-economy.com)
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by davidmathers 16y ago
the original term has become somewhat diluted over time It's not the original term. OOP started with Simula 67 and then split into 2 branches: the Alan Kay brach and the Barbara Liskov branch. Alan Kay coined OOP for his branch, but the n
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by davidmathers 16y ago
Shorter RTF: The client might GET from a cache, so obviously GET isn't a procedure running on the remote server.
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by davidmathers 16y ago
I agree with you hypothetically. But my question was about their real world issues. They could, in theory , have ids for songs-in-playlists. But they don't in fact have them and their RPC api doesn't require them. That's what I'm intereste
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by davidmathers 16y ago
Urm, I thought I was agreeing that it's not possible. But I think we're in agreement. In short: you want to offer functions on the server that REST would push on to the client (or would require making architectural changes). REST definite
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by davidmathers 16y ago
DELETE /playlist/{playlist id}/{song id}/{index} isn't very RESTful (imo) Your opinion is a fact, imo. Songs can't be deleted from playlists using REST, full stop. Songs-in-playlists are values, not identities, so they can't be resources.
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by davidmathers 16y ago
Woz didn't know it was impossible: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyKlNjwR03M#t=7m45s
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by davidmathers 16y ago
When I started working on the Rdio API I struggled to work out how to effectively expose our API through a more classically REST model, but ultimately there was too much functionality that would be significantly more ugly when forced into
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by davidmathers 16y ago
The most interesting thing about this post, to me: it's a reminder that religious people rarely get taken at face value. Which I think is unfortunate for communication. I read the linked Andy Rutledge post in which a religious fundamentalis
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by davidmathers 16y ago
Jazz sounds awful. I can understand styles of music sounding awful, but what does it mean for a whole genre of music to sound awful? How does that even make sense? Just to be clear, do you think this (Desafinado) sounds awful?: http://ww
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by davidmathers 16y ago
"It screams RPC. There is so much coupling on display that it should be given an X rating." -- Roy Fielding @ http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hyperte...
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by davidmathers 16y ago
That's not why he left.
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by davidmathers 16y ago
It devalued your contribution ... The way I look at it, your answer was helpful. It's more useful to think in terms of signal to noise ratio rather than a binary helpful/unhelpful. It may have been helpful when considered in isolation but
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by davidmathers 16y ago
Nudges: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT3_UCm1A5I
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by davidmathers 16y ago
I flagged it for that reason. F'in annoying.
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by davidmathers 16y ago
Signed up. If you send me an email when mpd support is added then I'll give it a try. I could check back in a few months, but I'll probably forget.
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by davidmathers 16y ago
It's already begun. With Virgin Mobile I pay $25/month for unlimited 3G data and unlimited SMS.
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by davidmathers 16y ago
This got no votes when I submitted it, but anyone reading this may find it interesting. The Science Wars Redux - Fifteen years after the Sokal Hoax, attacks on “objective knowledge” that were once the province of the left have been taken u
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by davidmathers 16y ago
How about: load all 63,792 valid games into a relational database and automagically get pure functions along with an algebra for function composition. Simple, clean, straightforward. Denotational semantics. Is that cheating?
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by davidmathers 16y ago
There are actually several shell script relational databases. If I remember correctly one of them was even a successful commercial venture.
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by davidmathers 16y ago
What you're probably seeing there is tracks which are so new that we've not determined similar fingerprints for them yet I don't think so. Look at Kanye West: http://www.last.fm/music/Kanye+West/+charts?rangetype=week&#... Monster shoul
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by davidmathers 16y ago
The amount of bad data on last.fm and their lack of interest in cleaning it up makes me sad. You can see a small example just by looking at the current top songs: http://www.last.fm/charts/track Morning Mr Magpie is in position 8 instea
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by davidmathers 16y ago
I agree that those concepts don't really hold up to philosophical scrutiny, but they're useful for political categories. Libertarians, social democrats, and conservatives all mean something real when they say "liberty" and they are 3 differ
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by davidmathers 16y ago
I know it was sarcasm. Why are you pointing that out? And what does it have to do with my response?
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by davidmathers 16y ago
The Koch brothers are libertarians, not conservatives. See "Why I am not a Conservative" by F. A. Hayek.
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by davidmathers 16y ago
There is of course some truth to that, but in this case I think it's a bit unfair to conservatives. The words "freedom" and "liberty" do have reasonably consistent and coherent conservative meanings. They're just different than what liberta
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by davidmathers 16y ago
He wants to protect "our most basic freedoms", right? Matt Yglesias explains: Freedom’s Just Another Word for "I’m An Orthodox Conservative With Orthodox Conservative Views": http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/?p=41091 He also provides a

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