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“Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.”
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True Story.
A large consumer internet company where I worked sent in a team of lawyers to check over the fledgling social network I was building. The registration flow concerned them. There needed to be a check where the person registering was required to submit their date of birth so that we could ensure they were over 13.
The advice of the lawyers was to throw an error if someone underage tried to register.
“What kind of error?” I asked.
“A generic error, something like, Your registration has failed or The system is down for maintenance.“
As a product guy, if there is one thing I hate more than a generic error message it’s a deceptive one. I want to give the user a specific error message that tells them what went wrong.
“Can I just tell them that they are too young to use the service?”
“No, then they would just adjust their date of birth and re-register,” said the legal department.
We all know this is what happens anyway, it’s one of the great collective nod and winks of the internet along with checking the [I understand and grok completely] boxes on the End User License Agreements we find across the web.
I argued that we must give them a more specific error so it doesn’t look like our service is broken. Legal didn’t want me to tip our had too much. What to do? We compromised.
The new error message? The agreed upon language?
You cannot use this service . . . at this time.
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Here's Kitt and his delightful progeny cleverly disguised as a tauntaun and Han Solo on the frozen ice-world of Hoth: "His tauntaun even had removable guts to warm your hands with."
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Police have arrested a man they say attacked the driver of a horse-drawn carriage then took the reins in downtown St. Louis on Tuesday night. Police said the victim was steering a horse-drawn carriage southbound on 8th Street between Chestnut and Market around 8:25 p.m. when he saw the suspect running toward him.
Authorities said Johnny Medina, 40, jumped into the side of the carriage and hit the victim in the head with a cane. Medina then took control of the reins and the victim jumped out of the carriage, according to police. A witness in the area called police, who responded to the scene and followed the carriage. Police said the horse, whose name is Harry, continued pulling the carriage and ran back to his barn at the St. Louis Carriage Company stables, located at 1000 Cerre Street.
The carriage then crashed into and damaged a trolley bus on the parking lot. Police said another employee of the carriage company ran out and started to remove the horse from the carriage to get it back inside the stable. Medina then jumped down from the carriage and started punching and kicking the horse. Police said the employee and witnesses pushed Medina to the ground and detained him until police arrived.
Carriage company employees told police the horse did not have any visible injuries, but would be checked by a veterinarian. The victim refused medical treatment at the scene. The suspect was taken to the hospital and remains in custody. Medina has been charged with second degree robbery and third degree assault.
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Tom Wilson, better known as the bully Biff from Back To the Future, gets asked a lot of questions about his legendary role. Instead of being uptight and refusing to talk about one of the greatest movie franchises of all time, he created this business card. Behold.
And if you still have even more BTTF questions, Wilson has a song for you. Sadly he doesn't answer if he ever received my fanfic, titled Biff's Revenge.
[via Shaun Usher at @LettersOfNote]
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Teenagers can spend weeks thinking about their prom outfits and the whole day getting ready. A group of them in Wisconsin expected their perfect looks to last all night. Instead, they were soaking wet in a matter of minutes.
"It's completely unexpected. It doesn't even happen on TV, and all of a sudden here it is happening to us," said Matt Timm. A group of friends went to waters off of Lac La Belle in Oconomowoc on Saturday to take a group photo before prom.
Little did they know as they stood on a wooden pier that they were about to make a life-long memory when the pier suddenly collapsed. Soaking wet, the girls and guys were pulled from the water. Trying to dry off before prom, they ran so many hair dryers they blew a breaker inside a home.
But with some borrowed shirts for the guys and some touch-up makeup for the girls, the group finally made it to the big event. "We're laughing about it now and it's hilarious, and I'm sure my kids will laugh at it. It'll be remembered a long time," said one of the teens.
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Aberdeen woman, Stacey Summers, 25, who gave up alcohol for a month and persuaded her friends to join her, has spoken of the experience.
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Mozilla has already announced that it's working on a Metro-style version of the Firefox browser for Windows 8, but the company is now crying foul over what is says are Microsoft's intentions to limit user choice for browsers on ARM-based devices. At issue is Windows RT, which as Mozilla states in a blog post will feature two environments: Metro, and the more-traditional Windows Classic. According to the company, however, the only browser that will be allowed to run in Windows Classic mode will be Microsoft's own Internet Explorer, locking out any third-party options. Given that other browsers can run in the Metro environment, Mozilla points out that there should be no technical limitation preventing apps from being able to run in Classic...
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At one point during The Avengers, Black Widow points out that Loki has "killed 80 people in two days" to which Thor responds, "He's adopted." That exchange has drawn the ire of the adoption community and they've launched a petition demanding an apology from Disney.
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After participating in a DECA conference in Salt Lake City with several classmates last week, Savannah, who is a type one diabetic and wears an insulin pump 24 hours a day, says she ran into TSA agents who were not prepared to deal with her medical situation. “I went up to the lady and I said, I am a type one diabetic. I wear an insulin pump. I showed her the pump. I said, what do you want me to do? I usually do a pat down – what would you recommend?”
Savannah then showed agents a doctor’s note explaining that the sensitive insulin pump should not go through the body scanner. She says she was told to go through it anyway. “When someone in a position of authority tells you it is – you think that its right. So, I said, Are you sure I can go through with the pump? It’s not going to hurt the pump? And she said no, no you’re fine.”
The 16-year-old walked into the scanner with some serious reservations “My life is pretty much in their hands when I go through a body scan with my insulin pump on.” She was right to be worried. She says the pump stopped working correctly. “Coming off an insulin pump is rough. You never know what is going to happen when you are not on the insulin pump.”
via Cat Vincent | /.
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Natasha Singer / New York Times:Bank of America Starts Mortgage Reduction Effort — Bank of America has started sending letters to thousands of homeowners in the United States, offering to forgive a portion of the principal balance on their mortgages by an average of $150,000 each. — The reduction for qualifying homeowners …FeedUnfurl
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Matt Yglesias argues that because of the way copyright is viewed by the public and interpreted by lawmakers and the courts, making an album like The Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique would be nearly impossible today.
The death on Friday of Adam Yauch, best known as the Beastie Boys' MCA, surely sent many of us back to old albums we may not have heard for a while. And anyone who threw on Paul's Boutique, the Boys' best album, was surely struck by the sense that they don't make records like that anymore. That's not just because tastes and styles have changed. The entire album is based on lavish sampling of other recordings. "Shake Your Rump," which leads Slate's #MCATracks playlist, features samples of 14 songs by 12 separate artists. In all, the album is thought to have as many as 300 total samples. The sampling gave Paul's Boutique a sound that remains almost as distinctive today as it was when it was released in 1989.
Perhaps the main reason-and certainly the saddest reason-that it still sounds distinctive is that a rapidly shifting legal and economic landscape made it essentially impossible to repeat.
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Notes "Artisan." Remember the word "artisan?" Perfectly valid word. Described an actual type of thing. Until the ad world got ahold of it, put it on the street, and pimped it out until every last chemical food concoction assembled by robots out of petroleum byproducts was marketed as "artisan." Totally killed the word. "Bespoke?" You're next. More » Unfurl
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Our electrical infrastructure spans the globe, lighting up every place on Earth. But it all relies on one singular metal: copper. And back in the early years of the 20th Century, many economists and engineers worried that we would run out of copper in no time.
They looked at the fast pace of our copper usage, and fretted that the world's copper reserves would quickly be outpaced by humanity's desire for an electric world.
Top image: Douglas Wheelock/International Space Station
Peak Copper Theory80% of copper mined over the course of human history is in use right now — the copper streets lining the circuit board of your computer may be the same pieces of copper that once constructed a medieval chalice.
The rate at which humanity used copper to install electric lights and form the foundation of our current infrastructure alarmed a number of miners, engineers, and economists in the early 20th Century. In the 1924 article Copper and electricity to vanish in twenty years?, copper mining engineer Ira Joralemon said:
[T]he age of electricity and of copper will be short. At the intense rate of production that must come, the copper supply of the world will last hardly a score of years. [...] Our civilization based on electrical power will dwindle and die.
This belief is yet to die — copper is necessary to build the infrastructure of any country, and as we continue through the Electronic Age, developing powers like Indian and China continue to devour copper.
Should the world's copper supply run dry, electronics makers would turn to more expensive metals with similar properties, like silver (copper currently costs 24 cents per ounce, while silver hovers around $31 an ounce). Aluminum is another possible replacement for copper, but use of aluminum for electrical wiring brings about an increased chance of combustion and burning a building down.
So copper is at least somewhat irreplaceable. In that case, why is it still so cheap?
The copper economy is fragile
Yasuo Hamanaka, a Japanese businessman, sought to artificially increase the value of copper by hoarding massive quantities of the metal, and in doing so, taught the world about the delicate nuances of the world's copper supply. By the mid-1990s, Hamanaka controlled 5% of the world's copper reserves.
5% does not sound like a lot, but copper is a not a commodity that can be moved around easily due to its mass, leaving Hamanaka's control of a small percentage to send waves through the world economy. Renewed mining efforts in China along with several financial probes intp Hamanaka's actions unraveled his scheme, with Hamanaka eventually serving seven years in prison for trading violations.
Improved recovery methods
40% of the world's copper is mined in Chile, with mines holding a steady output, after a brief drop-off during 2008.
Copper is durable and lasts an extremely long time — copper plumbing can last three centuries before substantial pitting occurs from water moving through the tubes.
Copper is also extremely robust — the quality of recycled copper is extremely high, and very little mass is lost during the recycling process, allowing re-purposed copper to demand a price only a few percentage points below newly mined copper. This property of copper is essential, as it moves copper away from the category of expendable resources like petroleum and closer to the terrain of renewable resources.
A combination of an increase in known reserves since the early 1900s and the current ability to turn a profit on ore containing less than 1% copper suggest a supple future for the world's copper reserves.
Extreme recycling
The ability to easily recycle copper may one day lead to a cottage industry of industrial-scale electronics recycling, with the process turning discarded laptops, televisions, and smartphones into scraps of useful copper, much like small scale recycling schemes currently recover gold and platinum from deceased electronics. Image by jakedolan/Flickr.
In a dire situation, existing copper parts of our infrastructure could be removed and outfitted with plastic or other alternatives. Copper pipes buried underground could be replaced with PVC, while slowly oxidized, green copper roofs become black sheets of asphalt. No doubt an extreme and labor intensive undertaking, but a believable one if a profit motive exists.
Wars fought over natural resources are not unheard of — could we see the day when countries go to war over copper mines? Not a likely scenario in our lifetimes, due to increased mining and recycling possibilities, but one that makes for interesting science fiction fodder. At the very least, our ancestors' fears of a small and finite copper supply appear to have been overcome, allowing us to sleep with the lights on.
Images courtesy of Great Mining and Berry Mill Scrap. Sources linked within the article.
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Back when Pokémon were just a seizure-inducing flicker in Nintendo's eye, there was "Dark Warrior epilepsy," a form of epilepsy that was only reported once in the history of medicine. Nonetheless, this malady is responsible for one of the strangest paragraphs ever to grace a medical journal.
In 1982, the British Medical Journal published a report from the Department of Neurology at Bristol's Frenchay Hospital. This article — simply and sinisterly titled "Dark Warrior epilepsy" — recounted how a 17-year-old girl with probable photosensitive epilepsy lost consciousness after playing the arcade game Dark Warrior (see gameplay below). As the researchers noted:
She had played Space Invader, Asteroids, and Lunar Rescue and not suffered any known adverse effects.
The patient subsequently avoided playing Dark Warrior, and her fits ceased. But that wasn't enough for our enterprising doctors.
No, after witnessing terms like "Space Invader wrist tendonitis" and "Space Invader epilepsy" (which was erroneously coined during a case study of the game Astro Fighter) gain cachet in medical circles, these doctors were gung-ho to leave on a mark on the neuroscientific lexicon. Behold this magical paragraph:
The term Space Invader epilepsy is, in fact, a misnomer, since no cases have been reported with the Space Invader video game itself. We suggest, therefore, that Astro Fighter and Dark Warrior epilepsy be classified under "electronic space war video game epilepsy" and this as a special category of photoconvulsive epilepsy. Video games other than space war games-for example, Super Bug and Munch Man-appear to be less epileptogenic. Electronic space war video game epilepsy has yet to be reported with Defender, Space Fury, Lunar Rescue, or Asteroids war games.
I hope Munch Man's PR team exploited the hell out of that pull quote. And the next time I end up in the emergency room, I will slip "electronic space war video game epilepsy" among my list of complaints. (This is how to determine who was awake during med school.) Also, is Dark Warrior epilepsy is any way linked to outbreaks of Pac-Man Fever? This requires further inquiry.
Semi-related: Another journal paragraph somehow penned with a straight face.
[Via Mind Hacks]
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Edward Gorey was the master of understated terrors, and if he'd ever illustrated the madness-inducing monsters of HP Lovecraft, they might look like John Kenn Mortensen's Post-It Monstres, in which horrific beasts loom over remarkably unperturbed kiddies.
What's especially lovely about Mortensen's monster doodles is that, while Gorey is clearly an influence, it doesn't appear that he's fully aping Gorey's character design. And his empty-eyed monsters, occasionally tentacled and occasionally all teeth and hair, lend the scenes a sense of unavoidable doom. I wonder if the children will be the victims or instigators of that doom. Perhaps they will be both.
You can see more of Mortensen's illustrations on his blog or in his Post-It Monstre art book.
[via Lovecraftzine via MetaFilter]
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Me: I have that sample of the linen paper you wanted. Do you want to come by and pick it up or should I mail it to you?
Client: Just fax it to me.
I had to explain to the client why I couldn’t fax a textile sample.
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Client: We need this done right now.
Me: So does that mean you’re sending the assets and copy changes I need to make the changes right now?
Client: No!
Me: So should I wait until you do?
Client: No, I need this pamphlet finished right now.
Me: So there aren’t copy changes and new images to include?
Client: There are…
Me: But you’re not sending those right now?
Client: No, we’re not.
Me: So you want me to send the previous version?
Client: No, we want the new version with the copy changes and new images.
Me: I think you and I aren’t understanding each other.
Client: What do you mean?
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A chubby cat and a bunch of video game consoles, drawn by Kyle Fewell for Matt Hawkins’ long delayed but still anticipated FORT90ZINE4ANSWER.
Fewell posted a similar awesome piece last week, but I didn’t get a chance to share it here before it blew up on Tumblr like whoa. Look at this cat.
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[VIa Kyle Fewell]
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A grandmother and grandfather from Sarasota, Florida, are facing numerous charges for towing a toy plastic car from behind their SUV with their grandchild seated inside. According to the arrest report, a Sarasota deputy on patrol spotted the SUV on Sunday, pulling a small plastic Hot Wheels car with the 7-year-old girl inside. The toy car was connected to the SUV with dog leads tied to the trailer hitch.
The vehicle was travelling about five to 10 miles per hour, and a woman was riding in the rear with the hatch open, cheering the child on. The little girl had on a bathing suit, and no protective gear. The deputy immediately pulled the vehicle over, and in the arrest report states the driver of the SUV, 49-year-old Paul Berloni, had a strong smell of alcohol on him.
Berloni told the deputy his drivers licence had been suspended for 10 years for DUI and at first said he had only two or three drinks. He later allegedly told the deputy he drank more, but wouldn't say how much. Berloni refused to take a field sobriety test and was placed into custody. The woman riding in back, 47-year-old Belinda Berloni, was also reportedly intoxicated and told the deputy that while she knew it was dangerous to drag the toy car, they were "just having fun and had been doing this all day."YouTube link.
The child's father was called to the scene and was reportedly became very upset when he learned what happened. He reportedly said to his mother, Belinda, "Are you f---ing stupid? You should know better!" The father told investigators he believed both grandparents have a drinking problem. Paul Berloni was charged with DUI, driving while licence suspended and child neglect/endangerment. His Belinda Berloni was charged with child neglect/endangerment. Investigators say the child was unharmed in the incident.FeedUnfurl
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Ever since the days of Fredric Wertham, people have been pointing out the homoerotic elements in Batman. There are hundreds of GIFs of Batman in his pink costume, or that famous scene where all the other DC heroes worry about their girlfriends, and Batman worries about Robin. There's even a Wikipedia entry on "Homosexuality in the Batman Franchise," complete with an image from a 1954 comic showing Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson apparently sleeping in the same bed.
Top image: Frank Quitely/Playboy.
So when Batman, Inc. writer Grant Morrison said in a Playboy Magazine interview that he thought the concept of Batman (not Batman himself) was gay, the fan reaction was muted. Here's what Morrison says:
He's very plutonian in the sense that he's wealthy and also in the sense that he's sexually deviant. Gayness is built into Batman. I'm not using gay in the pejorative sense, but Batman is very, very gay. There's just no denying it. Obviously as a fictional character he's intended to be heterosexual, but the basis of the whole concept is utterly gay. I think that's why people like it. All these women fancy him and they all wear fetish clothes and jump around rooftops to get to him. He doesn't care-he's more interested in hanging out with the old guy and the kid.
He also points out that Wonder Woman was only really popular when she was having lots of bondage and strange lesbian stag-hunts.
In any case, I've seen articles claiming that Morrison's comments caused a huge internet hub-bub... but I haven't quite been able to locate the hub-bub yet. There have been a few grouchy comments here and there, and a number of people pointing out that Batman is currently boinking Catwoman thus proving that indeed, "as a fictional character he's intended to be heterosexual." And a few other people have wondered what, exactly, the "pejorative sense" of gay is. The main critical comment I've come across thus far? Over at the Bleeding Cool forums, Phantom309 asks, "Why is Captain Picard about to crush all those characters?"
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NES, the shoulder bag. Have you ever wanted to be the guy carrying a notebook around in a hollowed out NES, with velvet glued to the inside and big lunch box clasps? And a little NES controller card case to go with it?
I’d kinda want to get one of these to carry a third-party Famiclone in. Just because.
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The security theatre is getting surreal:
The Ministry of Defence is considering placing surface-to-air missiles on residential flats during the Olympics.
An east London estate, where 700 people live, has received leaflets saying a "Higher Velocity Missile system" could be placed on a water tower.
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But estate resident Brian Whelan said firing the missiles "would shower debris across the east end of London".
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"It [the leaflet] says there will be 10 officers plus police present 24/7."
Lunacy on stilts. (Oh, and let me add, the residents don't get any choice over having missiles billeted on top of their homes.)
If one of those things is ever fired, either in anger or by accident, it'll shower white-hot supersonic shrapnel across the extremely crowded residential heart of a city.
Hmm. It's a good thing I'm a novelist who dabbles in technothrillers, not a terrorist. If I was a terrorist I'd be licking my lips, trying to work out how to trigger a missile launch. Using a motor-powered model aircraft, free flight design (no radio controls to jam) aimed vaguely towards the Olympic stadium, with a nice radio beacon or some sort of infra-red source (a flare, perhaps) on its tail to make it easy to track? These missiles will be the close-in option, because we know the RAF will already be flying combat air patrols over London; they won't have much time to evaluate threats or respond intelligently. So launch from the back of a panel van, like the IRA mortar attacks on places like Heathrow or 10 Downing Street. The twist in the scheme would be to aim past the missile launchers along a vector that would attract a hail of hypervelocity missile launches in the direction of, say, a DLR station at rush hour.
Olympic security is out of control and irrational; the best solution would be to designate a permanent Olympic venue somewhere isolated — Diego Garcia would be a prime candidate — and hold the games there permanently so that they don't endanger life, limb and civil liberties. Alas, that would reduce the corruption corporate sponsorship opportunities, and the games are entirely about milking the host nation for money these days.
Fuck the Olympics in 2012.
(Oh, and incidentally it would be illegal for me to say this if I happened to live in London or my blog was hosted in England—the enabling laws for the Olympics override our basic civil rights, including free speech. Luckily I'm north of the border in a country that remains semi-free. But if a future independent Scotland even thinks about bidding to host the Olympics, you bet I'll be organizing street marches in opposition ...)FeedUnfurl
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My RESTful Web Services Cookbook has been out for nearly 26 months. From Feb 2010 till the end of 2011, O’Reilly sold 13,052 copies (both print and eBook format combined, per the royalty statements received to date) of this book. Given that O’Reilly’s eBooks are DRM free, I would like to think that several thousands more copies were downloaded for free on torrent sites, but there is no way to know.
Writing this book was a painful exercise. I spent most of 2009 writing the drafts – at that time Yahoo allowed me to spend about 20% of my time for nearly 4 months to write the first draft (for which they own the copyright of the book). It was painful because REST was about style. Not having seen all aspects of the style work in reality, I was not fully convinced about parts of the style. Separating style from protocols was a time consuming yet learning exercise. How could I say that following such and such Roy Fielding’s constraint leads to evolvability without dissecting evolvability into concrete details? The last thing I wanted was to write a book that paints a nice picture with the benefits one would get out of REST without discussing the specifics. I wanted to avoid handwaving at all cost.
In these two years, I changed quite a bit.
I no longer actively engage myself in discussions about REST.
I unsubscribed out of rest-discuss in 2011.
I don’t even subscribe to Roy’s idea that REST APIs must be hypertext-driven or that “A REST API should spend almost all of its descriptive effort in defining the media types”.
What I learned in these two years were the following:
Don’t confuse styles with protocols.
Understand what you are going to interoperate with and make tradeoffs as necessary.
Interoperating between style deviations is more important than arguing for style adherence.
Interoperability is partly a protocol problem and partly a software problem.
Architecture styles are guides, but protocols specify rules. Roy’s REST codifies (to some extent reverse-engineeres) the Web into a set of constraints. Constaints are what they are – guides sans context. They are subject to tradeoffs. They postulate benefits when applied. But protocols are different. They set ground rules for different systems to work together. Just like you don’t start driving on the left side of the road (in the US), you don’t break TCP or HTTP’s messaging formats. When you break such protocols, you prevent networked systems from working together.
But we tend to mistake the style (i.e, REST) for the protocols. I made that mistake several times (shame on me!) in the past, and I still see it being made. I took care to avoid this while writing the book, but I may not have succeeded fully. Strong belief in a style often leads to zealotry. This is no different from the zealotry we see in socio-political debates.
Yet not all Protocols are the same. I tend to view protocols making up a pyramid. Where a protocol stays in this pyramid shows how widely it helps interoperability.
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Towards the bottom are protocols that strive for the widest range of interoperability possible. TCP is an example. HTTP is another example. As you go up the pyramid, the amount of relevance and influence a protocol carries becomes narower. For instance, I would keep RFC 2616 towards the bottom of the pyramid, but an RFC like 5023 (AtomPub) towards the top. AtomPub’s reign of influence was limited then and is even now. I would similarly place a media type like application/json towards the bottom, and a type like application/my-grand-fathers-facebook-profile+json at the top. A perspective of where a protocol belongs in this pyramid certainly helps ration energy.
So, would I write this book differently now? I certainly would.
I would change the title to something along the lines of “Recipes to Build Client Server Apps Using Web Protocols”, though the editor might ask me to change to include some current trending words.
I would emphasize even more on protocols.
I would cut down or clearly demarcate the parts of the book that suggested design styles (such as designing formats).
I would spend a big chunk on how to interopere without necessarily agreeing on the style.
If you’ve read my book, and built some interoperable Web based systems, you might come to the same conclusion as I did. If that happens, I count my book as a success.
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