If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
by Laura Joffe Numeroff · first published 1985
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Relating the cycle of requests a mouse is likely to make after you give him a cookie takes the reader through a young child's day.
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on “Ask HN: What's your favorite children's books?” ↗Are you saying if someone gives you something for free, it's immoral if they don't continue giving it to you for free forever? The children's book "if you give a mouse a cookie" was about exactly this phenomenon
on “Kimi K3 is now live” ↗See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_You_Give_a_Mouse_a_Cookie "If you give a mouse a cookie, he'll ask for a glass of milk" "If you give a mouse a glass of milk, he'll ask for a straw" And the story keeps going like that, with more and more requests coming in.…
on “Google AdWords Exploit Seen in the Wild” ↗The problem is that I've read "If you give a mouse a cookie" to my daughter so many times that I would naturally assume that giving a twinkie to a monkey would result in a bedtime-story length chain of humorous events.
on “Red meat is not a health risk. New study slams years of shoddy research” ↗…Significant engineering time will need to be spent ironing out important things that just work with REST (like caching). The best analogy I have for what working with GraphQL on the backend is like is the “If you give a mouse a cookie” story [1]. You try to set up an API but end up being asked to implement three different caching layers, using the data loader pattern to batch requests to the DB to improve performance, discovering…
on “Ask HN: If GraphQL Is So Great, Why Doesn't Everyone Use It Already?” ↗…are all green every day, there's a sort of obsessive compulsion behind working on these projects. It's pretty amazing how the boundary of what a PL actually is has expanded. It's really the story of "If you give a mouse a cookie".... Used to be back in the day you didn't even have to implement the thing (ISWIM). But if you give the people a programming language they're going to expect a compiler to use it. Then devs started…
on “Designing a Language (2017)” ↗