found drama

• Tenth of December author George Saunders in conversation with his Random House editor, Andy Ward.
  At Slate Magazine. I wish I had an editor like this.
  (tagged: editing writing )
• Are People Being Unfair to the House Republicans?
  Over at The Atlantic, Molly Ball interviews the recently resigned Rep. Steve LaTourette (R) about the House Republicans. Includes a few gems, such as:

  This is what I'm talking about: These guys are OK when it comes to ideology and dogma, but they don't have a clue how to participate in the legislative process.

  Also:

  I'm sure they have a certain ideology, but if the purpose of the place is to govern — if your ideology is you don't believe in governing, I can't say anything to that. But if you want a smaller, more responsible government, you have to go for the achievable.

  And don't miss the closer.

  (tagged: politics )
• The Perfect Match
  Fantastic story by Ken Liu, over at Lightspeed Magazine (and featured in the second edition of JJA's "Brave New Worlds").
  (tagged: fiction Ken Liu )
• Hacking the brains of other people with API design.
  At JLOUIS Ramblings. tl;dr: Intentionally fail requests a small percentage of the time to force downstream API consumers to write error-handling code. Sadistically genius? or just clever?
  (tagged: hacking API )
• Internistic: Building A Clojure REST Service: Part One
  Part one in a series by Paul Umbers, wherein he builds a REST Service in Clojure and shares the process and results. ("…mistakes & all.") I enjoyed this one, and its follow-up.
  (tagged: REST Clojure )

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