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A clever young entrepreneur rebounds from failure by riding Santa's coattails, and a "little white lie."Quote: THIS YEAR, MILLIONS OF PEOPLE across Japan will celebrate Christmas around buckets of Kentucky Fried Chicken. Families will order “Party Barrels” weeks in advance, replete with this year’s offering of cole slaw, shrimp gratin, triple-berry tiramisu cake, and, of course, fried chicken. Santa-clad Colonel Sanders statues will stand at attention outside storefronts, grinning mutely through December as KFC Japan sales multiply tenfold, earning the chain a third of its annual income. The corporate promotion is one of Japan’s longest-standing Christmas traditions.
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«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Happy birfda ta ya!
Happy birfda ta ya!
Happy birfdaaaaay ta @daveauld
Happy birfda ta ya!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Thanks! Offshore at the moment, hopefully fly back to Cyprus tomorrow. If my back to back makes it! He's probably stuck somewhere with the French transport strikes! 
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Happy birthday! 
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I've been meaning to delve deep into the .Net CLR and Core CLR. I have the CLR via C# book by Jeffrey Richter.
It is a good read but I am wondering what some of the more experienced people here on CP would recommend.
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I read that book, and I think it's probably one of the best resources you can find on the matter. There's a vast number of .net devs who really should read it.
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Agree.
(For picking a single point: After reading the garbage collection discussion in this this book, it became obvious to me that I would never have been that smart myself, if I were do do my own heap managent!)
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I watch a lot of youtube video.
And, obviously, the youtuber ask us to subscribe, support them on patreon, sponsor some product, etc...
Only fair they try to make a living, hey! Plus, I do enjoy all these entertainment!
Thing is, I never went on patreon, never bought any t-shirt or other thing, etc.. and when I think to all the video I watched it would be quite costly to do that on every video as well... But I do feel a bit guilty though.. they do deserve something for ongoing their entertainment service after all... I am just freeloading here!
Nothing more to say from me here.. but I wonder if some people here are on patreon or bought youtuber t-shirt or have some thoughts on that topic?!
modified 19-Dec-19 22:52pm.
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Super Lloyd wrote: bu I wonder if some people here are on patreon or bough t youtuber tshirt or have some thought on that topic?!
Never. I got the T-shirt that says I beat the swordmaster of Melee Island though.
I usually skip the begging-part of the video's as it can't be blocked (yet) 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I have bought one t-shirt and still wear it. I've also made donations of $5, $10, and $30 USD to different vloggers over the years and did a 1 month Patreon for $5. I did this to support their work as I felt they had gone above and beyond. The funny thing is I got thanked for the contribution for the $5 and $10 donation, but not the $30. And of those 3 contributions, only the $10 guy still makes videos today for YouTube. The $30 guy only makes videos for his private website. And lastly, the Patreon guy turned into a bitter troll; so I quit his Patreon and unsubscribed from his YouTube channel.
I've heard they make between $1 and $3 per 1000 views; so they do make a little cash if they're monetized.
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Our clicks give them money too... Why should we buy more?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Youtube is a bit of an ass with that.. many channel had their advertising money cancelled or even worse, stolen due to spurious copyright claim...
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Super Lloyd wrote: I am just freeloading here!
What would you call what YouTube is doing?
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well... good question... hahah
though it does offer those "content creator" an expression medium with a wide reach...
but when it cancel the monetisation or even take it away..
at the very least it's unethical...
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Super Lloyd wrote: though it does offer those "content creator" an expression medium with a wide reach...
How does Facebook compare with that?
And I would use "content creator" loosely in both instances (YT/FB)...but I see you already did put that term in quotes. 
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I sponsor two creators on Patreon, and feel good about it. Right now it is only $11 a month, and this way I can choose how I sponsor.
For me it's better then Netflix subscription.
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Hi.
I compare the "state" of YT with the Music-Production in the Ninties.
The "democtratization" of Selling CDs and "cheap productions", lead to a oversaturation and the disruption of the Market.
The same is Happening to YT.
For me, the most annoying Part, it is all about "begging" for Money...
If the Channel is BIG, it is only selling Stuff.
If it is too small, it is "grinding" for any Penny, Nickle or how the smallest Coin in Your area is called...
And so Parteon comes too the rescue... Wait a moment... it is just too grind somewhere else... hmmmm...
So the similarity to the Music-Producer and the "Content-Creator", ist there.
Only the "hyped" and "pushed" can earn Money, all the rest is investing, just to keep it running.
And here is what YT was "giving" away, free Money for "the Creative" ones.
"But now, the free Lunch is over..."
You can see it on the YT, how Creators went to "extrimism" too stay in the Business.
Likes are bought, shady secondary Markets opened up...
For me Patreon is more a secondary Market for YT.
YT, as a Platform, is well established, now all the little ones can ask for Money, but keep it going is another Story.
BTW in Germany there is a Profession named "Content-Creator/Mediengestalter", who is capable to use all sorts of Industrial Application to manipulate "Pixels" and such...
I like to call them "Pixel-Schubser".
Translates to "Pixel-Pusher".
I saw it in real live... It was really hard to Push a Red Pixel, one by one to the right...
I can´t do this Work, my bad Spine... It is too hard... 
c.u. @all Next Year
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RESTful API Designing guidelines — The best practices - By[^]
Comments?
Personally, I tend to disagree, particularly with the pluralized resource name and occasionally I find exception to the "noun" vs. "verb" rule, especially when I'm using a POST to provide a bunch of structured data for a GET (yes, it happens, particularly in my case when writing CC/ACH payment API's) and since GET is not supposed to have a body, and I don't want all that data in the URI, I revert to a POST with an endpoint like "getServiceFee".
But I'm curious what y'all think about how sticky the "guidelines" in that post should be.
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More like guidelines really.
Never let other people's rules outweigh your own common sense.
And never pluralize anything.
Think in terms of collections and collective nouns -- catalog, inventory, workforce, etc.
modified 20-Dec-19 8:40am.
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I think you mean:
And never pluralize anythings.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: never pluralize anything.
PIEBALDconsult wrote: More like guidelines really
ITYM "guideline".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I finished my first WebAPI based project with all POST and no GET for the reason you mentioned.
But now I'm keeping it moderate. I override it when required, it's just a guideline.
If someone argues on the principle of REST, then say you are doing GraphQL.
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Sounds good to me. Provided it's guidelines and not rules.
I think everyone has had that problem with GET vs POST.
I don't mind pluralizing names, if you do it's because of what you're used to.
It makes logical sense, and is also ISO standard.
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Caveat: I don't have enough experience in this area to be qualified to pass judgment.
When consuming someone's API, I prefer explicitness. So, I think I like your approach of "getServiceFee".
However, that's a property of some larger entity, so I could certainly see the argument that one should just get the entity and look for ServiceFee within that. That scales; as new properties are added, the API has to change in the method you're describing.
As to the plural versus the singular, the author's examples give it away: to get the collection, you use plural; but then tacking on an id gives you companies/xxx, which returns a single company and seems clumsy.
I suspect the answer is just pick one and be consistent. I guess I prefer the pluralized version slightly, because it's more like this is a search API: get me all companies which qualify under the provided parameters (or lack thereof). I might even argue that companies/XXX should return a collection, even though we certainly expect only one to qualify, because it is a search.
But my lack of experience in this area probably means I'm filtering through the wrong lens.
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