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But doesn’t this apply to “normal” panics as well? When unwinding the stack of a panicking goroutine, any deferred call might panic again, in which case Go keeps walking up the sta…

> While that sounds like a strange implementation detail, the philosophy of the .Net team has always been "how do you reasonably recover from an stack overflow?" Can you expand on …

The title of this HN post is completely out of context, and the discussion here is unrelated to the article. The author is not at all arguing against types or Haskell, nor is he ba…

How much of this applies to 1~100KB responses?

HTTP is an inherently complex protocol, which has over time accrued many idiosyncratic, non-orthogonal features to support various use cases of the growing Web. Just consider that …

Case in point: CacheControl [1]. Plug it in and you get flexible caching — interoperable with NGINX, the browser, and everybody else — for very little. But it relies on the protoco…

RFC 7540 also defines an optional way for the client to signal whether it wishes the request to be processed asynchronously: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7240#section-4.1

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-6.5.9 > It is not necessary to mark all permanently unavailable resources as "gone" or to keep the mark for any length of time -- that i…

Outstanding explanation. I would like to emphasize one point: > If you have multiple systems with data, and you want to merge the data together into a unified whole for some reason…

This article does not have a valid argument against using JSON-LD. It may be read as an argument against making namespaces a ubiquitous part of JSON, in the same way as they are ub…

RDF was not designed for arbitrary graphs. It was specifically designed for resource descriptions on the Semantic Web. > reliance on the web infrastructure (IRI, DNS, web servers, …

> async/await are a step ahead to give you the best of both worlds here: You can write your programs as if your requests block Are you thinking of “green”/M:N threading (as found e…

The article isn’t merely arguing that users prefer rich content, other things being equal. It is arguing that users prefer paywalled rich content to free plain content. This is not…

I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of values that could provoke the spelling of ‘Tweets’ with a capital ‘T’.

Not to worry, it’s “just” 5–10% for “well tuned servers using all of [performance-saving] techniques”.

I have a hunch that the era of side-channel attacks is only now dawning, and that we should expect many more painful exploits and cumbersome mitigations in the coming years. What d…

> In most cases it is clearer to simply adopt a payload format that includes application specific error codes Absolutely. This is a common practice and there’s even a proposed stan…

Here’s the standard for 422: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4918#section-11.2 . It’s not a WebDAV-specific error condition. People are right to see the similarity and reuse the sta…

> WebDAV spec, which is not HTTP HTTP is not a closed protocol. There will never be a single document defining all HTTP methods, status codes and such. Nothing in the definition of…

Worth remembering that essentially the same issue exists at a lower level: the “%Cpu” number as shown by top includes not just the share of time spent actually executing your instr…

> No option to disable automatic updates, or even reduce the check's frequency. Currently, it runs every hour, even though they can go weeks without a release! Why is this a proble…