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by gamache 14y ago
There's a line from NetBSD 1.3 (boy howdy, I loved that OS) to OS X Server, if you look closely.
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by gamache 14y ago
Off-topic, but this discussion might attract the right people. How much NetBSD-originated code remains in Darwin and OS X? I remember that in the initial betas, there was heavy usage of NetBSD's userland (at least); I've no idea how much re
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by gamache 14y ago
FreeBSD focuses primarily on flexibility, NetBSD on portability, and OpenBSD on security. Or something. There is of course much overlap in the way their goals are accomplished.
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by gamache 14y ago
You're preaching for YAGNI, which is a philosophy that's more good than bad, for sure. I am lamenting that doing hypermedia APIs properly isn't the default in Rails. I call out Rails because its massive appeal (to which I am no stranger) i
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by gamache 14y ago
I spell out some concrete advantages to hypermedia APIs elsewhere in these comments. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4948652 But to specifically address DHH's arguments from the article: * Enabling Discovery is a strawman argument; no
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by gamache 14y ago
Given the level of respect I have for the OP's exhaustively researched points, I should not have said a thing. Someone on the Internet is wrong. My mistake.
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by gamache 14y ago
You still need to know the meaning of each link relation, that is true. When hypermedia advocates gloss over this, or imply that clients will just magically know what to do with all the data and links coming from the API entry point, it an
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by gamache 14y ago
What concerns me about Hypermedia APIs is that folks are using the same sorts of grandiose, architecture astronaut-y stuff that we got out of the last two failed revolutions. You owe it to yourself to read the HAL+JSON specification: htt
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by gamache 14y ago
DHH's API philosophy (send simple JSON serializations over the wire, mostly from the server to the browser) got him through the 2000's OK, but the longer he argues against hypermedia, the less relevant Rails becomes for API design. These ar
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by gamache 14y ago
It's in response to Rails being on the trailing edge of Hypermedia/REST API design, and not making moves to pull ahead. Rails's strength is in its sane and powerful defaults; the absence of a sufficiently sane and powerful default for API
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by gamache 14y ago
If FB Purity is there for the good of humanity, great; open it up and let the community keep going. But why should I care if it's a primarily financial venture, and someone built their house on quicksand? Building a business on FB by remo
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by gamache 14y ago
It's surprising to me that CBD is fiat-legal; not only is it a prominent cannabinoid, it's one acid wash away from becoming THC. http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/archive/index.php/t-351514.html And I don't mean 25-50% of the plant mass, I mean
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by gamache 14y ago
Inversion: until he open-sources it, I am not interested in his plight in the slightest.
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by gamache 14y ago
CBD is most definitely psychoactive. It also accounts for about 25-50% of marijuana's active components, so we are living in a world full of long-term data. Cannabidiol is most definitely illegal in the US, too. That DixieX site you link
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by gamache 14y ago
He's getting into the business of destroying lives. I don't think it's lawyers that will end him.
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by gamache 14y ago
You make phone calls, right?
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by gamache 14y ago
I am a Ruby on Rails person! I will tell you some things. I am not going to give up OS independence, on the development or server side. I am not going to give up editor/IDE independence. Microsoft is not seen as ahead of the curve with resp
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by gamache 14y ago
What you said was gospel in 1990, but nowadays there is much dispute over the role of fat in a healthy diet.
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by gamache 14y ago
Sometimes you want to express multiple is-a relationships at the same time. In that case, composition is a hack, and multiple inheritance is a better match for the concept. I prefer having more options how my objects behave than fewer. But
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by gamache 14y ago
I don't agree with your reading of the comment, but I guess it was better suited for a rant, so fuck me. What if the Zynga employee/s in question had not a moral objection to virtual cow trade, but a mild distaste? You can work in an indust
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by gamache 14y ago
Nothing really got simplified here. There's now twice as many steering columns, the rear hub became more complicated, and so did its dropout because now there's pedals there. We've lost gear ratios other than 1:1. And I didn't see brakin
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by gamache 14y ago
I first got good at network programming by writing /. crapflooders in the late 90's and early 00's, and my profanity skills honed in the trolltalk salt mines still take my mother's breath away to this day. Thanks for everything Rob!
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by gamache 14y ago
RSpec isn't aiming to be used as plain English; that's more of a Cucumber thing. I appreciate RSpec for that.
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by gamache 14y ago
I would contend that API versions are a fundamental part of a resource. A resource is defined by its content and available operations. Changes to an API redefine the content and operations of resources. That redefinition makes different AP
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by gamache 14y ago
If you leave the version out of the URL, the same URL can represent multiple versions/renderings of the same resource. This makes sense conceptually, as /users/22 is the same user, whether you are getting the data in version 1 of the XML re
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by gamache 14y ago
There seems to be a bit of traction around Revel: http://robfig.github.com/revel/ It was founded as a Play framework derivative, if you're familiar with that (I wasn't). I've been using it to put together a web service and I like it so fa
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by gamache 14y ago
A couple years ago, I passed a very pleasurable hour in front of the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles when the man behind me in line noticed the database book I was reading, and struck up a conversation. Glad I had the luck to rub
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by gamache 14y ago
Weather Live has been doing this for quite some time; I wouldn't call this "so special". It's not an enviable feature. Right now I am in San Jose and I can see what the temperature was in Boston last time I launched the app.
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by gamache 14y ago
You're right, you didn't. My mistake, I apologize. A few questions though. Would you be displeased at someone saying "Hey guys!" or "Hi fellas!" or "What's up, dudes?" to a group of mixed gender? Do you feel that these greetings play a pa
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by gamache 14y ago
You just registered an account to complain about a message of unequivocal world peace from the first human to set foot on an extraplanetary body.

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