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Public Service Announcement: Wealth Induced Tech Bro Sociopathy
Do you, or someone you know, suffer from the following symptoms?
Willful ignorance of history because doing otherwise might impact your bottom line? Mark Zuckerberg
Do you equate self-driving cars with dismembering journalists? Uber
Do you take umbrage at women’s suffrage? Peter Theil
Is your name Marc Andreessen?
Then you might be suffering from Wealth Induced Tech Bro Sociopathy, an old disease currently experiencing an outbreak in Silicon Valley.
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Time Crimp
Defn: Time Crimp, Temporal Crimp, or simply Crimp A term that describes the compression of time during a crisis. During times of crisis events unfold with a speed unthinkable outside a crisis. Vaccines for Covid-19 may be available in a year or two, as opposed to the normal development timeline of decades. Sweeping changes to zoning laws that would normally have been impossible, or at least taken years to get approved are done in a matter of days.
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Murkowski
Murkowski verb
To express "concern" about something you have no intention of doing anything about. Derived from Senator Lisa Murkowski who claimed she was "concerned" about about President Trumps behavior but still decided to vote against impeaching him. Four months later Trump was tear-gassing peaceful protesters. Example usage: "Wow, Zuckerburg totally Murkowski'd on Trump's violent rhetoric." See also: Duplicitious.
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Meritocracy
Meritocracy A system in which venture capitalists give large sums of money to 20-something male Stanford graduates in computer science.
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Hi-REST, Lo-REST and Everything-in-between-REST
So Don Box has unintentionally coined terms for a couple different kinds of REST.
Lo-REST Just using GET and POST like HTML does today. Hi-REST Using all four methods (GET, PUT, POST and DELETE) like the Atom Publishing Protocol. By why stop there? How about an intermediate level that just uses three methods?
Somewhere-in-the-middle-REST Using just three methods (GET, PUT, and DELETE).
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GETSful
GETSful (adj.) Derogatory Any web services protocol that claims to be RESTful but only uses GET for everything. See, for example, del.icio.us and 30boxes.