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At Railscamp X it became clear there is a gap in the current HTTP specification.

There are many ways for a developer to screw up their implementation, but no code to share the nature of the error with the end user.

We humbly suggest the following status codes are included in the HTTP spec in the 7XX range.

  • 701 - Meh
  • 702 - Emacs
  • 711 - Closed
  • 719 - I am not a teapot
  • 72X - Edge Cases
    • 720 - Unpossible
    • 721 - Known Unknowns
    • 722 - Unknown Unknowns
    • 723 - Tricky
    • 724 - This line should be unreachable
    • 725 - It works on my machine
    • 730 - It's a feature, not a bug
  • 73X - Fucking
    • 731 - Fucking Rubygems
    • 732 - Fucking Unicode
    •  . . .

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Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:26:00 -0800 Triaging volunteer tech support: the internal http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/triaging-volunteer-tech-support-the-internal http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/triaging-volunteer-tech-support-the-internal

I stole the title of this post from the fabulous PNH, of Making Light. 

Being computer literate means getting asked to help. I’m happy to help. I believe the less you fear your computer, phone, or tablet, the more you’ll get out of it, so, absolutely, How I can help you?

 

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Mon, 07 Feb 2011 12:09:00 -0800 Three Apple Engineers and Three Microsoft Engineers http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/jokes/Three_Apple_Engineers_and_Three_Microsoft_Engineers.html http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/jokes/Three_Apple_Engineers_and_Three_Microsoft_Engineers.html

Three Apple engineers and three Microsoft engineers are traveling by train to a conference. At the station, the three Microsoft engineers each buy tickets and watch as the three Apple engineers buy only a single ticket. "How are three people going to travel on only one ticket?" asks a Microsoft engineer. "Watch and you'll see," answers the Apple engineer.

They all board the train. The Microsoft engineers take their respective seats but all three Apple engineers cram into a rest room and close the door behind them. Shortly after the train has departed, the conductor comes around collecting tickets. He knocks on the rest room door and says, "Ticket, please." The door opens just a crack and a single arm emerges with a ticket in hand. The conductor takes it and moves on. The Microsoft engineers saw this and agreed it was quite a clever idea. So after the conference, the Microsoft engineers decide to copy the Apple engineers (as they always do) on the return trip and save some money.

When they get to the station, they buy a single ticket for the return trip. To their astonishment, the Apple engineers don't buy a ticket at all. "How are you going to travel without a ticket?" asks one perplexed Microsoft engineer. "Watch and you'll see," answers an Apple engineer. When they board the train the three Microsoft engineers cram into a rest room and the three Apple engineers cram into another one nearby. The train departs. Shortly afterward, one of the Apple engineers leaves his rest room and walks over to the rest room where the Microsoft employees are hiding. He knocks on the door and says, "Ticket, please..."

 

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Sun, 06 Feb 2011 21:00:00 -0800 The War on Terror: As viewed from the Bourne shell. http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/ThinGuy/entry/the_war_on_terror_as http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/ThinGuy/entry/the_war_on_terror_as

Craig Bender on "The War on Terror as Viewed from the Bourne Shell"

$ cd /middle_east
$ ls
Afghanistan   Iraq          Libya         Saudi_Arabia  UAE
Algeria       Israel        Morrocco      Sudan         Yemen
Bahrain       Jordan        Oman          Syria
Egypt         Kuwait        Palestine     Tunisia
Iran          Lebanon       Qatar         Turkey

$ cd Afghanistan
$ ls
bin  Taliban    
$ rm Taliban
rm: Taliban is a directory
$ cd Taliban

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