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It's a pretty great format for rapid prototyping, but very complex and wouldn't deploy it as a public API that needs to be supported for a long time.

Yea this is absolutely what I meant. HTML5's complexity is a symptom of this problem.

I'm a bit worried about the authors taking this overboard and trying to redefine the URL standard with similar complexity.

This is also widely considered a bad idea now. Making liberal consumers allows for sloppy producers. Over time this requires new consumers to conform to these sloppy producers to maintain compatibility.

Just look at the clusterfuck that HTML5 has become. You need to have extremely deep pockets to enter that market.

I also think that's a mischaracterisation. It's statistically unlikely for me to transform the world. I just want to carve out a tiny piece of it and make it better.

I don't disagree with you, but this one in particular seems very far from the definition even if you ignore all the hypermedia stuff.

This is a bit far from what most would consider REST. Just call it a HTTP api?

Looks cool though! I would love a product that behaves like a proxy/CDN for images and does some on-demand resizing/filtering.

Well to each his own right? I personally would hate to work in a place where there's little socializing and quiet all day. I love the open office.

I always get a little annoyed when people make the assumption all programmers want peace and quiet. My day concists of a lot of banter and wouldn't want it any other way. I worked at a major financial services firm for a while too where there there were private offices and lots of silence and I felt isolated and miserable.

How about we all just look for jobs where the work ethic fits our personalities instead of judging if someone else's doesn't fit yours.

On my phone, so unfortunately no reference, but there is a HTTP 2 spec underway that allows a client to send a cache manifest frame. A server can then push the resources that are newer. Pretty much exactly what's needed.

This is not particularly interesting. You can't leave the Mac ecosystem because of vendor lock-in. To me this would make me want to change my tech stack. If you don't care, you are just not the target audience for the article.

You're just as uninsteresting as people not switching to Mac from Windows in 2010 because it doesn't play games.