How I Explained REST to My Wife (2004)
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How I Explained REST to My Wife (2004)
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Re: How I Explained REST to My Wife (2004)
#2It's a great blog post, but it has been posted numerous times on HN. I don't want to rant or anything, but I think we should start searching before posting. Please correct me, if I am wrong.
cheers http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=763570 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3396910 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5186774
Re: How I Explained REST to My Wife (2004)
#3It's a great blog post, but it has been posted numerous times on HN. I don't want to rant or anything, but I think we should start searching before posting. Please correct me, if I am wrong. cheers http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=763570 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3396910 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5186774
Interesting, all of these have identical links. Usually Hacker News doesn't let you post the same link more than once.
Re: How I Explained REST to My Wife (2004)
#4> Wife: You mean "http" like the beginning of what I type into the browser?
What browser does she use? It wasn't required to type that anymore for ages already :)
Re: How I Explained REST to My Wife (2004)
#5> Wife: You mean "http" like the beginning of what I type into the browser? What browser does she use? It wasn't required to type that anymore for ages already :)
Two points: One, the post is from 2004, so maybe she could remember a time when typing that was required (I wouldn't know - I was too young to be using the internet at that time).
Second, this conversation seems to have been "enhanced" for the sake of the blog post, so it's quite possible that all the details aren't 100% accurate. Some of her questions seem a tad too convenient.
Re: How I Explained REST to My Wife (2004)
#6It's a great blog post, but it has been posted numerous times on HN. I don't want to rant or anything, but I think we should start searching before posting. Please correct me, if I am wrong. cheers http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=763570 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3396910 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5186774
For what it is worth I've been an HN member nearly four years and I've never seen this before. I enjoyed it and up voted. I don't think reposts are necessarily a bad thing because there is always going to be new members who have not seen the item yet, or old members who were "in the zone" coding instead of wasting time browsing HN on the day the item was last posted.
Re: How I Explained REST to My Wife (2004)
#7> Wife: You mean "http" like the beginning of what I type into the browser? What browser does she use? It wasn't required to type that anymore for ages already :)
For what it's worth, this post is from 2004. Even with that in mind, this is not a verbatim conversation; the style is Socratic inquiry.
Re: How I Explained REST to My Wife (2004)
#8It's a great blog post, but it has been posted numerous times on HN. I don't want to rant or anything, but I think we should start searching before posting. Please correct me, if I am wrong. cheers http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=763570 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3396910 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5186774
Even if it were reposted within a month, a considerable number of people would have never seen it before. It's just the nature of these boards.
Just rely on the upvoting system. If people think it is relevant, they upvote. This means things will only show up on the front page if enough people are interested (ie it has been long enough since it was last posted).
Re: How I Explained REST to My Wife (2004)
#9It's a great blog post, but it has been posted numerous times on HN. I don't want to rant or anything, but I think we should start searching before posting. Please correct me, if I am wrong. cheers http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=763570 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3396910 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5186774
This is very meta, but what I find infinitely more annoying is this trend of people who love to repost their own comments 10 times in 10 different threads loosely related to the same issue. We should start punishing instead of rewarding that. I'm looking at you, tokenadult.
At least with link repetition I can quickly see whether I already read this and decide to ignore it. But re-posting an old, cancerously-grown comment with a new first paragraph is just mean and lazy.
Re: How I Explained REST to My Wife (2004)
#10It's a great blog post, but it has been posted numerous times on HN. I don't want to rant or anything, but I think we should start searching before posting. Please correct me, if I am wrong. cheers http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=763570 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3396910 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5186774
well, sorry. It was shocking good and never seen b4 for me. But, it's so good that I would like to read it again in a year or so :)