REST is a design style for protocols, it was developed by Roy Fielding in his PhD dissertation and formalised the approach behind HTTP/1.0, finding what worked well with it, and then using this more structured understanding of it to influence the design of HTTP/1.1. So, while it was after-the-fact in a lot of ways, REST … Read more
Until we get a post from someone who really knows, here’s my understanding to the question, FWIW. A subroutine and a function are essentially the same thing, with one difference: A function returns some sort of value (usually via the stack or CPU register), while a subroutine does not. Whether subroutine or function, it is … Read more
In university, performant means that you have an optimal solution in O(n) notation. You might get a remark on your paper about using made up words instead of the proper terminology though. In business, performant means that your customer hasn’t complained about the speed (yet). Your product is also buzzword compliant.
Inherently sequential. Example: The number of women will not reduce the length of pregnancy.
This is totally personal and subjective, but I’d say that a website is defined by its content, while a web application is defined by its interaction with the user. That is, a website can plausibly consist of a static content repository that’s dealt out to all visitors, while a web application depends on interaction and … Read more
GitHub’s website currently seems to be: Using blob for files, and tree for directories, in URLs; Redirecting browsers which request file URLs containing tree to contain blob instead; and Redirecting browsers which request directory URLs containing blob to URLs containing tree instead. It’s possible that GitHub’s website, at the time you asked the question, was … Read more
A delimiter denotes the limits of something, where it starts and where it ends. For example: “this is a string” has two delimiters, both of which happen to be the double-quote character. The delimiters indicate what’s part of the thing, and what is not. A separator distinguishes two things in a sequence: one, two 1\t2 … Read more
It’s a behavior produced by code which may be relied on by consuming code, though that behavior is not specified by the spec the code is written to. Hence, other implementations of the same spec may not exhibit the same behavior, and will break that consuming code. That’s why it’s bad to rely on them. … Read more
There are questions that already deal with the difference between passing by reference and passing by value. In essence, passing an argument by value to a function means that the function will have its own copy of the argument – its value is copied. Modifying that copy will not modify the original object. However, when … Read more
I wouldn’t say that something uses a wire-level protocol or doesn’t – I’d talk about which wire-level protocol it uses. Basically, if something’s communicating with a remote machine (even conceptually) then there’s some data going across the network connection (the wire). The description of that data is the “wire-level protocol”. Even within that, you would … Read more