krober
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11 years ago
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on: "Open Source is awful in many ways, and people should be aware of this"
He's not saying open source is categorically awful, but that there are awful things about it. Pointing out these deficiencies is a way to foster communication to fix shortcomings that may exist in the community. You're right, FOSS has allowed a great many things to happen, but that doesn't mean FOSS and its methods are perfect. Continually revisiting and refining processes should be at the forefront of FOSS.
krober
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14 years ago
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on: Humiliation in Startups
I would think the code base suffers as well. I'd tend to avoid code reviews, or at least not actively seek them out, if public humiliation was par for the course.
krober
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14 years ago
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on: ‘Big brother’ black boxes to soon be mandatory in all new cars
"While the primary function of the black box devices would be to record and transmit data that could be used to assist a driver and passengers in the event of an accident..."
I'm not even convinced the primary use case is helpful. Most people have cell phones nowadays, and sometimes systems like OnStar. Furthermore, who is going to handle the data (storage, responses, etc.)? How much money are we going to spend on this? Scary monitoring implications aside, this seems like a terrible idea.
krober
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14 years ago
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on: RESTful thinking considered harmful
Do you have an example of RESTful SOAP? I think SOAP's lack of situational HTTP method adoption (i.e. it uses GET or POST for everything, vs DELETE/PUT/etc. when appropriate), and the fact that it wraps another envelope around an already available HTTP envelope makes is hard to deem any SOAP implementation as RESTful. I'm not trying to prove you wrong, I'd just like to see an example (a quick google search yielded nothing for me).
krober
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14 years ago
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on: RESTful thinking considered harmful
Yeah I considered PUB/SUB as another alternative, and it makes sense to use it for realtime applications, but I'm not sure what else (due to my ignorance, not necessarily PUB/SUB limitations). As for RPC, isn't SOAP the successor to that?
krober
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14 years ago
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on: RESTful thinking considered harmful
I agree with the "it's just a tool" sentiment in general, but what other great alternatives are there? I haven't had a favorable experience with SOAP, so I can understand why people think REST The Best Thing Evar. This is based on my own experiences, so I may have used SOAP wrong, misunderstood its intentions, etc. Do you have any examples of when SOAP (or another technology) is preferable to REST?
krober
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14 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Do you invest in the stock market?
Great point, even then I'm taking people at their word. There's no shortage of hyperbole when people talk about "some guy I know".
krober
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14 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Do you invest in the stock market?
This is what I tell myself, but I continually hear stories (friends of friends, of course) of people hitting it big and wonder if I just don't get it.
krober
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14 years ago
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on: Spend time learning, not searching - a directory for online learning resources.
Cool idea! Is it mainly a science/tech directory, or do you plan on incorporating other online learning resources (like language learning sites/books/etc.)? It looks like mainly Khan Academy results show up for me. Also, you have "Communication" as an example search term, but it doesn't return any results.
krober
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14 years ago
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on: Namecheap.com: We say no to SOPA
