sampsonetics

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by sampsonetics 10y ago
Let's be careful with the phrase "open office plan". Many articles lump cubicle farms together with partition-free spaces in the same category, but whenever they're treated as separate choices the research tends to show
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by sampsonetics 10y ago
Reminds me of my favorite bug story from my own career. It was in my first year or two out of college. We were using a commercial C++ library for making HTTP calls out to another service. The initial symptom of the bug was that random reque
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by sampsonetics 11y ago
I also like your wording in terms of the codebase drifting from the team's understanding of the problem, which is a drift that is important to be continually mindful of. However, to the point of your blog post, there have definitely be
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by sampsonetics 11y ago
I wrote this article, at carsongross's urging, as a follow-up to the discussion around his earlier article, "Rescuing REST from the API Winter".[1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10941616
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On Hypertext and Hypotext(intercoolerjs.org)
6 points by sampsonetics 11y ago|1 comments
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by sampsonetics 11y ago
Quoting from the court order: "Failure either to submit a Objection Form or letter to the Court by April 1, 2016 will be deemed a waiver of your right to object to the disclosure of your or your child’s protected personal information a
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California ordered to disclose students' protected personal information(cde.ca.gov)
1 points by sampsonetics 11y ago|1 comments
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by sampsonetics 11y ago
(I wrote a fun little essay about Press & Dyson and Adami & Hintze for my scientific writing class last summer. The assignment was to write an essay of no more than 1000 words, intended for a non-scientific audience. Not sure if pas
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by sampsonetics 11y ago
Altran is a major contributor to SPARK these days [1]. I've been a big believer in TDD for many years (and still am), but reading a lot of Dijkstra lately I started to feel guilty for not keeping up with the state of the art in formal
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by sampsonetics 11y ago
> But the magic of HTML is in the browser where you click around. Having a standard for form equivalents and links in a JSON API doesn't pack the same punch because there is little purpose to have freeform consumption of an API the
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by sampsonetics 11y ago
I haven't used intercooler.js myself, but I think it's a really beautiful example of REST's conception of "Code-On-Demand": It's not just downloading an RPC-style client into the browser, it's enhancing
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by sampsonetics 11y ago
I was under the impression that iOS and Android both support HTML right out of the box. Do they no longer bundle Web browsers, or are you suggesting some other drawback that is critical to your particular application?
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by sampsonetics 11y ago
Unfortunately, the Wikipedia article [1] doesn't distinguish between CQRS (command-query responsibility segregation) and CQS (command-query separation). They are entirely different concepts. Compare Fowler's CQRS article [2] to hi