How I Explained REST to My Wife(tomayko.com)
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How I Explained REST to My Wife
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I didn't see any sexism, either, and I'm extremely sensitive to such things.
This is pretty old, but is an important piece of the "What/Why REST" discussion we seem to be having here on HN.
I agree. My understanding of REST has became a little more clear after reading the article. Glad it was posted here.
Seconded. The whole verb/noun discussion played into my Linguistics background nicely. Now I... get it.
"She gets me going on purpose just so she can see my arms waving and the vein pop out of my head while I'm trying to describe this stuff. I don't think she really pays all that much attention to what I'm actually saying."
My friends do this to me all the time. I know they don't really care but they keep asking questions until I can't resist explaining stuff to them.
My friends do this to me all the time. I know they don't really care but they keep asking questions until I can't resist explaining stuff to them.
Dude, you're a geek and you married a non-techie? I'm sorry :(
Reminds me of this Richard Feynman story:
A few diehard protesters stayed till the end of Feynman’s talk, and complained that they still didn’t like that woman-driver story: