Comments on: Smart by association

By: Labnotes » Can you catch a silver bullet?

Labnotes » Can you catch a silver bullet? — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 06:30:17 +0000

[...] Bill de hÃ“ra (via Pete Lacey): I think we need to talk about how â€œREST as in the HTTP Web, sucksâ€, before it becomes another silver bullet [...]

By: Assaf

Assaf — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 20:59:59 +0000

To qualify for “Cool By Association” you need to present evidence that you:
a) Ignored HTTP verbs that have only three letters.
b) Invented at least one protocol able to abstract HTTP away.
c) Retained said inventions and extended it with a REST profile.
d) Loosely coupled that profile with a press release.

On a serious note, I used to naively think that if I inspect assumptions, put things in perspective, and review them once in a while I’d be doing good for me and those around me. I still feel that way. But I long learned that those who want to believe a silver bullet exists do not tolerate such foolishness.

By: Bill de hÃ“ra

Bill de hÃ“ra — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 17:51:16 +0000

Dumb and Dumber…

Dumb: I bought two books recently. One was called “Information Retrieval: Algorithms and Heuristics” and was reading it over the weekend. Or trying to. By the time I got to the material on Bayesian, I was getting lost. However this……