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Pretend you offer a REST API and a potential customer asked you to change one of the GET methods to allow POST as well. Let's also pretend that in all modern languages this is a 15 second change + deploy, 20 second if you have automated testing, 30 minutes if you write a unit test, I suppose.
What do you do?
A) Do it
B) Refuse to do it
C) Write a condescending refusal?
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Nice one  , but billing of 40 hours will not be sufficient if it break any existing (working) things 
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D) Tell them it breaks your authentication model and so it is a huge security problem and will compromise their used of the system. Instead you will have to write a similar, yet different POST method requiring the necessary parts for authentication and it will take MANY days and cost MUCH money.
After returning from a leisurely vacation and collecting some cash from the client, make the GET allow POST.
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D) Do an impact analysis of what else will be affected by this change. Better to properly evaluate and schedule in an update than to perform a knee jerk change which shouldn't affect anything else but which probably is going to come home and bite you on the keester when it breaks something else for your biggest client.
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Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote: Pretend you offer a REST API and a potential customer asked you to change one of the GET methods to allow POST as well.
Don't touch working code unless you are absolutely sure it will not impact anything that is using it.*
Instead offer a new POST method specifically for this client, and charge accordingly. Win, win. 
* - If you do be sure you do full regression testing to insure it doesn't adversely impact existing code.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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D) Mock the customer elsewhere on the intarwebz while being foolish enough to use your real name. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I could care less. I am acting on behalf of the customer in this case and mocking the vendor. Three separate individuals here spent quite a while trying to POST to this API only to finally discover it is GET only. What is the tenet of services, be liberal in what you accept and restrictive in what you provide or such? Saying a vendor of an API should accept a GET and a POST verb for the same method call is not a "game changer" by any means. And calling the vendor out without publicly identifying them is not really that big of a deal. Though, I am still holding out that they will change their mind.
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Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote: What do you do?
Send an invoice, based on the hourly rate, for all 35 seconds and the time you wasted emailing, phoning and posting here.
Did the customer request a unit-test? Let me rephrase that, would it be billable?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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B) Refuse to do it.
I'll tell them, its not logical and why its not logical
And will ask them why they need it and suggest alternative solution if possible.
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CBadger wrote: I stole a funny
So where did you put it? Let's hear! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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The US president is black? Are you shitting me?!!
I am so angry now I have to smoke something!
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Super Lloyd wrote: I am so angry now I have to smoke something!
Find something better than cigarettes. 
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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In case you missed it, it was a joke!
Read the comment I was answering to! 
Or maybe I missed your joke! 
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Super Lloyd wrote: Or maybe I missed your joke!
Yes it was a joke. Smoke something that will get you high.
Not a very good one if I would have to explain it. 
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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CBadger wrote: capable of accessing the entirety of all information known to mankind.
I think you place a little too much trust in the internet. There is in fact a LOT of knowledge that can be found in books and archives, without being accessible on the internet.
If you don't believe me, here's an example: Try taking up genealogy and see how far your get using only online resources!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Johnny J. wrote: books
I don't understand . . .
What we got here is a failure to communicate
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Bio-Optic Organized Knowledge[^]
Quote: THE BOOK is a revolutionary breakthrough in technology. No wires. No electric circuits. No batteries. Nothing to be connected or switched on. So easy to use, even a child can operate it. Compact and portable. Can be used anywhere -- even sitting in an armchair by the fire -- yet it is powerful enough to hold as much information as a CD-ROM disc. Here's how it works:
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Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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You know - those things you download and read on your tablet.
/ravi
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Time travel is impossible and thus this question is meaningless
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Hey, we proved it wasn't next week, and we will probably have to go through it all again last week.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Mohamad M. Mohamad wrote: Time travel is impossible
Prove it.
Even Hawking doesn't say that:
"The first indication that the laws of physics might really allow people to travel in time came in 1949 when Kurt Godel discovered a new space-time allowed by general relativity. Godel was a mathematician who was famous for proving that it is impossible to prove all true statements, even if you limit yourself to trying to prove all the true statements in a subject as apparently cut and dried as arithmetic. Like the uncertainty principle, Godel’s incompleteness theorem may be a fundamental limitation on our ability to understand and predict the universe, but so far at least it hasn’t seemed to be an obstacle in our search for a complete unified theory.
Godel got to know about general relativity when he and Einstein spent their later years at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. His space-time had the curious property that the whole universe was rotating. One might ask: “Rotating with respect to what?” The answer is that distant matter would be rotating with respect to directions that little tops or gyroscopes point in.
This had the side effect that it would be possible for someone to go off in a rocket ship and return to earth before he set out. This property really upset Einstein, who had thought that general relativity wouldn’t allow time travel."
Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
He has a whole chapter about time travel, wormholes and such like.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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