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by gunderson 18y ago
wow those questions they have for McCain are awful, they might as well have been asked by Shepard Smith!
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Google Chrome on Windows 2000(theinquirer.net)
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by gunderson 18y ago
I don't disagree. I was not trying to accuse you of being a Christian, just arguing using a bit of hyperbole -- which was intended to be entertaining b/c in particular a lot of Christians don't care for Rand's ideas... :)
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by gunderson 18y ago
hah I must have missed that. Thanks for pointing it out!
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by gunderson 18y ago
Were you forced by your parents to donate your allowance to the homeless amid tears that eventually turned into self-congratulation? What sort of "good parenting" created such a visceral aversion to Rand's philosophy? Or is it her prose st
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by gunderson 18y ago
You've sort of side-stepped the point. The idea of humans being "imperfect" is not in reference to a Webster's definition, but in comparison to the religious notion of the deity's perfection. If one believes that Mankind is not some imperfe
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by gunderson 18y ago
The point of a novel of ideas is not that you agree with every single idea within, but that the novel presents the ideas in a way that brings out their power in a concrete way. Ayn Rand didn't want people to form a religion, so please don't
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by gunderson 18y ago
You have too much taste for Atlas Shrugged because of your illustrious bloodline? If reading Atlas Shrugged is too much work for your taste, then I think the actual ideas contained in it would surely be quite distasteful to you, but I guess
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by gunderson 18y ago
Or in other words, when did you give up on your childish ideas about the heights of your own human potential?
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by gunderson 18y ago
The article doesn't suggest any books to replace Catcher in the Rye. I would probably suggest "Drown" by Junot Diaz: http://www.amazon.com/Drown-Junot-D%C3%ADaz/dp/1573226068 But Catcher in the Rye is a great and captivating story in its
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by gunderson 18y ago
I wrote a custom system, if you're using rails let me know and you can use it.
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by gunderson 18y ago
Fair enough, but the thing I like about REST is the consistent API and (ideally) proper handle of request types via mime type information in the header.
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by gunderson 18y ago
the simplest explanation of REST: the URL is part of the UI, both to the user and to api consumers. If you think of it that way, REST makes a lot of sense. Sure there can be other elegant approaches, but REST is one that has gathered steam
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by gunderson 18y ago
not really, the system would only need to keep track of the last updated time of each record and when aggregating them, set the proper etag.
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by gunderson 18y ago
And your point?
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by gunderson 18y ago
Right it may work for you, which is fine. The point of REST that I thought really stood out in the comments was the one about caching. If you know that any GET request can be cached subject to whatever is in the expires header or etag, that
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by gunderson 18y ago
This is a fun question. I don't, but I'm curious what you think are the most persuasive examples of services that don't fit. One that comes to mind is a service with semantics that require a preview step. Sure you can use create/read/upda
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by gunderson 18y ago
did you read the comments on his blog post? There are some excellent points made. You could achieve all of those things w/o using the REST standard, but then it's your standard... and there ought to be at least some reason for rolling your
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by gunderson 18y ago
If you bring some of the close parens down to new lines, then the lisp example is just as "squintable" as the java. I know that's bad lisp style, so I guess you'd have to argue that lisp devs have bad taste or don't care about program struc
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by gunderson 18y ago
I think that's an example an evolutionary "just so story". There may be some truth to it, but "genius" impacts such a small percentage of the population, that I think calling it genetic is quite a stretch. Ambition, yes. Few people are amb
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by gunderson 18y ago
I find a good ajax app to be far more usable than the other two. Every time I start using Flash or Flex I run into annoying issues. The last one was that Firefox has a bug where it says "transferring data from yoursite.com" forever if your
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by gunderson 18y ago
Bah... Academia heaps prestige upon the person who hits it big early, and from then on they don't get the same kind of feedback. Imagine at Google: "Of course, Sergey, that's an awesome idea". But if it's not then everyone is wasting a lot
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by gunderson 18y ago
I didn't realize it was ordored in the first place.
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by gunderson 18y ago
If they let you be anonymous in a site that requires authentication, then it's a bit more sophisticated. If not then it's probably simple like the other explanations below.
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by gunderson 18y ago
meeeow
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by gunderson 18y ago
Very true. I think some of the "Topic Nazis" have migrated here from Slashdot.
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by gunderson 18y ago
Hey at least it's more stable than Vista. And hibernation/powersave probably works better than on Ubuntu.
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by gunderson 18y ago
Not quite true. It does use some power, b/c the battery will eventually end up dead, even if you have the wireless connection off, if you forget to turn off the main power switch.
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by gunderson 18y ago
that's true, that is a good point.
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by gunderson 18y ago
"your Gmail account is currently experiencing errors" Is it just me or is this error message a bit annoying b/c it casts blame on my account, as if it's something I did. how about "Gmail is having a problem".

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