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by jalfresi 12y ago
Anyone in your office put together a spreadsheet? Then they are a designer. Anyone else send out a mail shot to some customer base? Then they are a designer. Design is not sexy. It is interesting, but it's not sexy.
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by jalfresi 12y ago
I've been tinkering about with writing my own shell at home, as an excerise in learning more about unix etc but bumped up against the limitation in that proper job control is currently impossible to do from within go (off the top of my
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by jalfresi 12y ago
Thoroughly interesting with just the right amount of detail to get off and experimenting on my own projects. Nice one!
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by jalfresi 12y ago
I like this, like a much more useful DeliciousLibrary. However, I HATE that it uses Gmail! Does Amazon not provide an API that it could use? I'd much rather tools like this used something I can control a lot better. I'm afraid tha
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by jalfresi 12y ago
Another good one by the same author Christopher Alexander is "Notes on the synthesis of form", my all time favorite book
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" but that doesn't equate to being "anti-design" I agree fully. I feel that the shift has come about because there has been an unconscious recognition that restricting your tools to one particular problem domain is a val
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Personally, I think the metaphor is quite apt. Obviously it is a metaphor so there isn't a complete mapping, but where do you feel the impedance mismatch is between the traditional architecture metaphor and software architecture? I&#x2
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by jalfresi 12y ago
I have some constructive criticism for the author, please take this in the manner that it is intended :) 1) Nothing I see here is restful at all. Please consider changing your documentation to specifically mention consuming JSON Web APIs ra
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by jalfresi 12y ago
Quoth TFA: "So while we gain quality from the bugs fixed, we lose quality when adding all the new features. For some programs where the functionality is fixed, for example unix commands like cat, grep or ls, I imagine they have become
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by jalfresi 12y ago
And media-types and rel types if you're developing HTTP APIs
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Whilst I agree with you, there is nothing stopping someone defining link structures in JSON documents, coining a new media type e.g. JSON+Link and boom, problem solved.
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by jalfresi 12y ago
Phishing is an attack vector promoted by email. Email clients should not create automatic hyperlinks from email content and email senders should not be providing links in the body of the email. This is entirely a problem that should not be
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by jalfresi 13y ago
Your docs should be curl examples showing how to use the Rest API. If you are providing a client library in multiple libraries, not only are you doing it wrong, but you've also missed the entire point of building a Rest API in the firs
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by jalfresi 13y ago
(With apologies to Zed Shaw, I am just using him as a high profile example) Zed Shaw can be an asshole. But that guy can sure sling code, and I'll eat up anything he programs. Hire him as CEO of a large public company? Now we have a pr
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by jalfresi 13y ago
We had this exact issue too. The answer was to modify the workflow. Select the transition that currently isnt resolving (in our case it was transitioning from "In Review" to "Done") and adding a new "Post Function&q
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by jalfresi 13y ago
Roughly about $10k a month, though we have cut that down from $30k a month. There are still plenty of cost savings we can make though so I expect that to drop to about half that still, with no loss of capacity, scale or performance. The sim
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by jalfresi 13y ago
I thought that is exactly what "slashdotting" was
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Personally I think the problem is the concept of comments in the first place. You see, way back in the day, if you wanted to respond to a post or whatever on the web you went to your own website and posted a response and linked to the sourc
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by jalfresi 13y ago
This. Where is the problem here that this solves? Even if you had 8 cards (the limit of Coin), how often does selecting the correct card become a problem, enough to warrant this kind of over complicated, error prone solution? First world pr
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by jalfresi 13y ago
Erm... what problem is this solving? Is having multiple cards in your wallet really a problem that requires such a convoluted solution? Sorry, but I really don't see what this is saving me/doing for me? Whats the problem this solv
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by jalfresi 13y ago
I believe there is a rather apt quote by someone whose name escapes me right now (C.J.Hoare maybe?). It goes (paraphrasing): "There are two ways to write software. One is to write code that contains no obvious deficiencies, and the sec
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by jalfresi 13y ago
European isn't a race. I think you mean xenophobia.
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by jalfresi 13y ago
Totally agree, these all fit the bill far better and with far less opacity than SOAP and it's ilk.
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by jalfresi 13y ago
I dont understand what the purpose of this is. I thought the whole point of REST is that it is discoverable at runtime. If you have an "API Spec" doesnt that mean the server owner is now beholden to that spec; that changes to thei
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by jalfresi 13y ago
I've never understood why the text/csv mime-type is not recognised by browsers: you should be able to embed a CSV into a HTML page using the <object> elements, much like an image. Then the browser could handle things like fi
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by jalfresi 13y ago
I hate to be THAT guy but someone was going to say it so it may as well be me :) This is a collection of patterns, right? Well why not make this really REST and rather than list a bunch of URL templates provide REL types for each of these l
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by jalfresi 13y ago
I hate to be THAT guy but someone was going to say it so it may as well be me :) This is a collection of patterns, right? Well why not make this really REST and rather than list a bunch of URL templates provide REL types for each of these l
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by jalfresi 13y ago
For me, when some people say "design" they mean "style". For example, someone works in the UI layer? That's the visual style of the application. I think in the early days of the web, "design" was co-opted
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by jalfresi 13y ago
>>That fancy CC form will NOT sell a single thing. It will however stop people from paying. >Citation needed. I'm getting pretty tired of this attitude. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for healthy skepticism, but if you
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by jalfresi 13y ago
Sure, he's called Jacob Neilson and he wrote a shit tonne of books on the subject about ten years ago. Although I understand that its the norm to ignore previous computing history for the illusion of inventing something, more so if it&

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