IZ VAR LIEK 0?
YARLY
VISIBLE "NO MOAR"!
NOWAI
VISIBLE VAR!
KTHX
VISIBLE " BOTTLZ OF BEER N TEH WALL!"
So simple. What’s the difference between Web and SOA? One is free in every sense, the other is a vendor offering. One is a messy bazzar, the other a governed cathedral. One springs bottom-up, the other dictated top-down. One is pragmatic simplicity, the other designed complexity. But none of these capture the dichotomy as well as “Planned vs. Seredipitous Reuse“:
Yet, on the Web, we do this all the time. The Web architecture is all about serendipity, and letting a thousand information flowers bloom, regardless of whether it serves some greater, over arching, aligned need. We expose resources based on use, but the constraints on the architecture enables reuse without planning. Serendipity seems to result from good linking habits, stable URIs, a clear indication of the meaning of a particular resource, and good search algorithms to harvest & rank this meaning.
Supposedly, serendipity is 3rd hardest word to translate, yet seems to work nicely on a global scale.
The Tao of critics. Reg at it again.
Vanity buttons. I got the one on the left, and every time I use it, I miss the one on the left.
Dead wrong. The problem with weather prediction, especially one as far fetching as global warming, is that all we’ve got are models. And models are sometimes wrong as many “non-believers” hope. Unfortunately, wrong works both ways.
Theory of language niches. Is it true, there’s only room for two in each category?
Above, portion of 99 beers implemented using LOLcode.
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