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by jholman 11y ago
Which part of logins and cookies is RESTful? Fielding's REST requires that the protocol be "stateless"... not that there be no state, but that the client and the server need not keep track of each other . Cookies, as Fieldi
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by jholman 11y ago
Soooorta. Much of GitHub's core functionality involves either logging in (using cookies. not RESTful.) or using Git (not a MIME type. not HATEOS. not RESTful.). Still, GitHub is a far more complete RESTful example than most. Wikipe
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> Chronologically speaking, REST is something that describes the web and how it succeeds . Chronologically speaking, REST is an attempt to fit the relatively-organic growth of the web into a systematized conceptual framework , and a
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by jholman 11y ago
So what do you call a system that uses more than two HTTP methods (e.g. uses PUT and DELETE as well as GET and POST), and has marginally-more-human-readable URLs, but doesn't send self-descriptive representations, doesn't use hype
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by jholman 11y ago
I'm Canadian. I've never had a mechanical failure on chip&pin. A friend of mine seems to have failures constantly at a certain liquor store; dunno if it's the debit card she's using, or the store's reader, or
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It is a protected term here (in Canada), and it is not in the US. For example, in 2001, Microsoft apparently agreed that in Canada, they would only use the acronym "MCSE", and not spell it out, because holding an MCSE does not mak
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by jholman 11y ago
Most professionals do work for free, in small amounts relative to the amount of money at stake. If you clearly only need 2 hours of lawyer time, you pay for both of those hours. But if you're talking about maybe hiring a lawyer to
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by jholman 11y ago
The best argument for whiteboard algorithm questions is that they (to some degree) filter out people who think that whiteboard questions are "an exercise in memorization". I mean, whether or not the company actually values the und
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by jholman 11y ago
I will always downvote complaints about downvotes. I do this because * I don't want to see complaints about downvotes * I believe that they are unconstructive 99% of the time * I don't think anyone else wants to see them
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coincidence_rangefinder
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> can multiply exponentially as it applies to EACH violation You meant "linearly", right?
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When you get around to building a statistical model, make sure you take into account that vasecotomies cost about 1/4 as much to perform (e.g. $700 vs $2800, in the US), and have are something like 20x less likely to have complications
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by jholman 11y ago
Upvoted for your edit. I make this comment, rather than just upvoting, because I wish to explicitly encourage on HN the social norm that Retric just displayed, of being open to being wrong.
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Obviously one could, hypothetically, believe that "feminism", whatever one intends that word to mean, is harmful or orthogonal to the interests of women collectively. (I say "whatever one intends that word to mean" becau
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It seems to me that once they've built a detachable screen, making it reversible is simple: you just make the data connector reversible, OR you put the data connector offset and build two of them on the keyboard side, so the screen plu
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by jholman 11y ago
I suggest that the difference between yourself and x0x0 is mostly personal, not a difference in phones. My wife is hard on her stuff; even with a case, her phones (one iPhone, two Android) need replacing every few years. I don't use a
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I'll start by acknowledging that "objectification of women" has become a buzzphrase, and it means whatever the speaker/writer wants it to mean, and the following discursion is (mostly) not intended as a prescriptivist sc
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Although the headline is not referencing Daraprim and Turing Pharmaceuticals, some of the content is about that, and there is an embedded video interviewing Shkreli, the Turing CEO. I recommend watching it; I thought it was a very good inte
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by jholman 11y ago
I'm not a huge fan of _why (apropos of the article, I have read some of his work), but I think this quote deserves to be posted in its entirety: “when you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than abili
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by jholman 11y ago
Wow. Their end-goal upgrade, the one that they've installed on one line, and are installing on everything else looks so antiquated. My city's subway/elevated train system will be 30 years old this December. Train control is
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by jholman 11y ago
s/abcent/absent/ s/your going/you're going/ (or for style reasons perhaps s/your going to/you will/ ) There are some weird capitalization issues, too (e.g. "Simple, Easy to use",
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1 through 5 all essentially amount to this: if the WHERE constraint indicates a contiguous subsequence of the index... or a small list of such subsequences... and btw we're mildly clever about reparsing your constraint to try to find
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by jholman 11y ago
Thank you for the very entertaining link. The following is not particularly a disagreement with the overall intent of your comment; it's largely a tangent. Perhaps, as a non-lawyer, I'm missing what's actually going on in tha
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by jholman 11y ago
http://www.census.gov/popclock/ 321.5 million residents gives $3.86T. Looks like each year of age under 18 makes up about 1.33% of that, for a total of 77M residents under the age of 18. Suppose you don't give a c
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by jholman 11y ago
Kinda ancillary to your point, but if you don't know what "fully loaded cost" is, it might behoove you to look it up before assuming it means "salary". I've never hired a $50k/a engineer, so I don't k
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You might have been joking, or you might have been serious. If you were joking, my reply is for the benefit of readers other than yourself. Aside from the obvious risks of downloading and immediately executing internet code, which are inde
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This is so silly. Many things that do not put cash in your pocket are assets. Gold is an asset. A home is an asset if it can be sold for money, or used productively. If it turns out that your property is so worthless that no one will buy
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You cannot always sell the house. The market may have fallen, or rates may have risen in a way that makes your home less affordable. Also, prematurely paying off your mortgage might have punishing penalties, and also there are frictional
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Well, in theory the broker is getting paid by the lender, not by me (the borrower). Of course, we all know that in a rational market, that cost has to be passed on to me. And yet strangely, I get a better offer when I ask the broker than
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by jholman 11y ago
You certainly can ship non-free software and free software together, in the general case. I was, of course, talking about the context of the parent comment, which was about (non-free) software that, as a fundamental part of its operation,

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