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Re:I've been abusing HTTP Status Codes in my APIs for years by treis on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @03:28PM (#32087664)
And why shouldn't we go with the convenient linguistic shorthand instead of the esoteric ontological argument?
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Re:I've been abusing HTTP Status Codes in my APIs for years by dragonwriter on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @05:33PM (#32089018)
> And why shouldn't we go with the convenient linguistic shorthand

Who said you shouldn't? The shorthand is convenient. But it doesn't mean what other statements with the same shape mean. A thing which isn't doesn't have a state or representation.

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