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RESTful Web Services correctly inherit and use HTTP as their interface

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RESTful Web Services correctly inherit and use HTTP as their interface. To new readers of my blog. This article was written many years ago, and is no longer the entirety or core of what I believe. It remains here as a historical stepping stone to newer ideas. There’s been a lot of buzz on RESTful Web Services [1] and yet there are still far too many developers that believe they may implement it by simply using a Rest class provided by their favourite framework. 2] http:/ news.ycombinator.com/item?

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Opine

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A quote by a fancy intellectual that shows that the author is deeply serious about defending their opinions from internet passers-by and that cheap shots will not be effective.". Have you ever felt sad about a perceived loss of freedom only to realise it might never have existed? It's not just me. When I look around, few gather the willpower and courage to write and even fewer are willing to risk their reputations on their own ideas and opinions. Partly I feel this way because writing is in general hard,...

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Your thigh as an interface from your phone to your mind

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Your thigh as an interface from your phone to your mind. Modern smartphones still use 90s-era vibration technology. Looking back mobile technology has improved a lot: the screen, the keypad, the internet connectivity, the OS; but do you remember the days when you felt your pocket vibrate and you knew somebody rung you or texted you? Phone manufacturer’s could be using multiple motors across the back of the phone to give a spatial quality. Sep 25th, 2012. Previous: On Facial Expressions.

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Seb Insua - Page 2

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A quote by a fancy intellectual that shows that the author is deeply serious about defending their opinions from internet passers-by and that cheap shots will not be effective.". Have you ever felt sad about a perceived loss of freedom only to realise it might never have existed? It's not just me. When I look around, few gather the willpower and courage to write and even fewer are willing to risk their reputations on their own ideas and opinions. Partly I feel this way because writing is in general hard,...

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Interfaces as Loops

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I had an experience the other day that transformed my thoughts on interfaces and I'd like to share it. I believe that not enough of us understand what an interface really is and that this is hampering our ability to provide good user experience. One of the problems we have when answering the question "What is an interface? Something more physical like a door handle. So, like you, when I think of an interface I normally think of this:. To illustrate what I mean, I'm going to talk about Uber. The other day...

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The Gestation Period

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I’ve been reading a lot of Taleb. Recently, and one of the concepts which is repeated over and over again and that is proposed as a rule is of "skin in the game". While this concept is a good heuristic for trustworthiness it’s unlikely to survive evolution. It is often difficult for third-parties to evaluate the authenticity of a cost or regulation, which is why institutional costs exist - they factor out hundreds of checks of hundreds of transactions into a single check of the institution that regulates...

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Sketches

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As of today I am working on three projects. This wasn't intentional but it's very hard to avoid due to the ease of thinking things into existence within the software world. To tell you the truth, I do not expect to finish them. Progress is slow and each is significant enough to require me to backtrack and re-envision the concepts over and over again. That is why I have been drawing sketches. In JavaScript is difficult to debug because it is difficult to observe. Perhaps through interfacing with Jupyter.

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How To Think

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The map is not the territory." Be mindful of what is. Hold opinions without gripping them. Invert, always invert." Impose faces on reality and then ask them contentious questions. Interrogate topics from perspectives of distinct cultures, and reframe in diverse contexts. Use metaphor to sense patterns and generalisations in nature. Compose principles into novel ideas. Creativity takes courage.". Show, don’t tell." Visualisation and narrativisation verbalisation. Test new ground by lightly stepping on it.

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How to install Keen IO Analytics into your Node.JS apps in mere seconds

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How to install Keen IO Analytics into your Node.JS apps in mere seconds. This was written as a guest blog post for Keen IO. Those that want to cut to the chase, should go and take a look at the project on Github here. Have you ever found yourself putting off adding analytics until an app reaches its later stages of development and you're less busy? Finding that one particular insight. That might make all the difference to a business. I've made the Express.JS middleware express-keenio. Just look how easy ...