jalfresi

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   by jalfresi 13y ago

   I've always equated javascript without semi-colons with missing comments and poor commit messages. It's just inconsiderate to other developers who have to read your code. I understand that it is a "feature" of javascript
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   by jalfresi 13y ago

   Apologies, yes it was an attempt at humor. I was hoping for more of a discussion on the two approaches though if your still game.
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   by jalfresi 13y ago

   if !strings.HasPrefix(mediaType, "application/json") { // bogus media type, deal return HttpErr{Err: errors.New(""), Status: http.StatusUnsupportedMediaType} } Sorry, but hav
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   by jalfresi 13y ago

   I personally reject the notion that "...A Good User Interface has high conversion rates and is easy to use". I don't agree that it is a requirement that a good UI has high conversion rates. In fact I would argue that software
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   by jalfresi 13y ago

   Today's centralized networks do not exist because of a lack of discoverability. For crying out loud dude, Google solved the problem of discoverability by crawling the "decentralised" web.
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   by jalfresi 13y ago

   Apache Httpd
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   by jalfresi 13y ago

   But.. but.. disruption good! Some things have already been disrupted. The 40hr working week being a great example. I'm really beginning to wonder if our industry's fascination with young, gullible and naive staff is actually healthy any mor
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   by jalfresi 13y ago

   Man, I could watch Tim Schafer videos all day. That guy cracks me up. I was pretty much sold by the video alone.
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   by jalfresi 14y ago

   In what way is "keeping prisoners in prison" related to the "well-documented cluster-fuck that is the judicial system in the US"? Keeping prisoners in jail is absolutely required. Determining if they should be in there in the first place is
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    by jalfresi 14y ago

    Interesting analysis, though personally I sit firmly in the camp that software are tools and as such should not express a "personality" or attempt to provide an "experience". For me, this suggests that straight nouns should be used for this
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    by jalfresi 14y ago

    Doesn't this miss the point of Markdown? I thought the main selling point of Markdown was that for plain text reading i.e. the markdown was clear and understandable as plain text. This introduces a bunch of additional features that can ONLY
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    by jalfresi 14y ago

    http://golang.org/doc/faq#unused_variables_and_imports The reasons and choices made for this have been fully explained.
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    by jalfresi 14y ago

    ALL Software has a front end - a user has to use it at some point!
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    by jalfresi 14y ago

    JSON and other non-natively-hyperlinked-media (e.g PNG, MP3, etc) can use the Link header to add hyperlinks. It's HTTP that is hypermedia aware, not the content-type, so you dont have to go out and invent image/png+hal. TL;DR You dont need
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    by jalfresi 14y ago

    They arn't. Stephen Few wrote a really good book a few (ha!) years back called 'Information Dashboard Design' (0596100167) which addressed the issue of circular dials and gauges. Here is a good essay on the subject by Stephen Few ( http://w
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    by jalfresi 14y ago

    I just chanced it: username 'demo' and password 'demo'. Saying that, the theme appears to suffer from exactly the same problems the OP was complaining about
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    by jalfresi 14y ago

    First of all, you are quite right for pointing out that the style-de-jour is 'minimalism' for app and web designers. I too feel that there is something missing from the current attempts. It is my understanding that Minimalism is a process,
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    by jalfresi 14y ago

    "There's no standard way of getting across what a link is to another resource, or where that information should go." That doesn't quite mesh with my understanding. Some media types support hyperlinks, like HTML, which describe how links sho
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    by jalfresi 14y ago

    I used to be on the PC component treadmill for years. I'm a developer by trade and I got fed up with maintaining the hardware of my various computers, preferring to concentrate on coding. Now when it comes to hardware I prefer to buy the be
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    by jalfresi 15y ago

    EDIT: DanBC said it far more elequently than myself here: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=DanBC The negativity being spouted by commenters regarding Dustin Curtis approach with Svbtle to me shows a complete misunderstanding of what he
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    by jalfresi 15y ago

    I agree, I too have seen lots of discussions of how to format links in JSON. As you noted, JSON is not a hypermedia format per se, but if you use the Link HTTP header you can add hypermedia to non-hypermedia mediatypes. Here is a quick exam
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    by jalfresi 15y ago

    Just thought I'd add that a lot of people are raising the issue of discoverability in restful services. From what I have read this is dealt with with three key constraints: mediatypes, link relations and HATEOAS (hypertext as the engine of