supersecret

Re:Books That Shaped America on Thursday August 13, 2015 @09:24AM (#10053948)

As far as a prototypical hacker...

Archaeologists found that he had used an order of magnitude more nails than he needed to to build his shelter. He accidentally chopped off part of his toe. His sister brought him food every week.

So he moved fast, broke stuff, and explored self-sufficiency while receiving help from others.

Re:Ask HN: How do I convince my coworkers to use HTTP well? Or am I be... on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @03:20PM (#9893435)

Thank you, yes. This is exactly the sort of short and sweet bullet points that I'm building up.

Ask HN: How do I convince my coworkers to use HTTP well? Or am I being a pedant?

Posted by supersecret on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @02:07PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Throwaway account here.I work on a team that is developing a mobile app with an HTTP-based backend. Except for me, everyone is attempting to reinvent the wheel. They are:1. HTTP 200 everything, unless it's a 500 internal error, or the route requested doesn't have a handler (404).2. POSTing everything.In cases where, say, a route exists but the resource requested does not, they return a 200 with...

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