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iraklion English is not normal

Doesn't matter. Even if it were on Mars, the language is qualified as part of the Indo-European group in all classifications.

iraklion English is not normal

Fun read, but alas factually inaccurate. Article says: "almost all European languages belong to one family – Indo-European – and of all of them, English is the only one that doesn’t assign genders that way."

1. There're quite a few languages in Europe that do not belong to Indo-European: Basque, Estonian, Finnish, Georgian, Hungarian, Turkish...

2. It is not true that English is the only Indo-European language the nouns of which don't have gender. Armenian for instance, does not and there are probably others.

iraklion Ask HN: Company got acquired, new contract seems oppressive

upcounsel.com is "uber for lawyers"

U should never sign anything this serious without consulting a qualified lawyer. Money you will spend is worth it

iraklion Text-only NPR

Because Thin probably gets no love, is not properly cached or maintained. It's a miracle it still works.

www.npr.org: 0.099sec thin.npr.org: 2.199sec

iraklion How We Make Trello

+100

iraklion Ask HN: What is REST exactly?

You can think of "resource" as an object in your application exposed on the web. REST actually talks about "resource representations" not: resources per se. This has to do with the Facade pattern and not tying your public interface with your internal implementation.

That said, for getting started you can think as "resource" being a web-addressable representation of an object in your application.

iraklion Ask HN: What is REST exactly?

Architectural style for building scalable applications. Fielding wasn't talking about APIs specifically.

There's nothing "weird" about links in APIs. For an easy metaphor, think of "links" in APIs as you think of foreign keys in your database tables. Link doesn't just mean something you can click :)

iraklion Ask HN: What is REST exactly?

REST is supposed to mean systems compliant with the architectural style defined by Roy Fielding in chapter 5 of his dissertation: https://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arc...

Unfortunately, in popular programming it has become to mean anything and everything that uses resource-oriented URLs and at least loosely: HTTP methods as verbs to "operate" on those resources.

The misuse of the "REST" as a term, has required the creation of a new term: Hypermedia APIs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypermedia_API