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wow those questions they have for McCain are awful, they might as well have been asked by Shepard Smith!

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 Chr…

hah I must have missed that. Thanks for pointing it out!

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 vi…

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 …

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…

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…

Or in other words, when did you give up on your childish ideas about the heights of your own human potential?

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 C…

I wrote a custom system, if you're using rails let me know and you can use it.

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.

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 …

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.

And your point?

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 cache…

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…

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... …

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 tha…

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 ge…

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…

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 aw…

I didn't realize it was ordored in the first place.

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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