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Re: Web interface search results
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lugnet.admin.general
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Tue, 24 Aug 1999 22:48:48 GMT
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LPIENIAZEK@NOVERAihatespam.COM
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Do we REALLY need the precision that seconds bring us? :-)
I'd vote for days or at least hours. Even for a non human readable API
like this one, go with data that's understandable to humans and let the
machines keep the books straight.
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| (...) "Admiral, if we go by the book, like Lietennant Saavik, hours would seem like days."[1] (...) Days are certainly human-readable and intuitive and okie-fine for relative times expressed counting backward from "now," but what about absolute (...) (25 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) A syntax vis-à-vis URLs isn't yet defined, but how does this sound?-- There's currently q= for the query string: (URL) qn= for subsequent pages of results: (URL) there are still 25 possibilities in the q*= namespace. How about qt= for the (...) (25 years ago, 24-Aug-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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