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Rebuttal to “How not to design a wire protocol” by designer of said protocol

by dfranke on 3/9/19, 12:35 AM with 3 comments

  • by mayoff on 3/9/19, 1:05 AM

    Discussion of the “How not to design a wire protocol” post:

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19312643

  • by kahlonel on 3/9/19, 7:05 AM

    I don’t care how many protocols you think you have designed, or how many years have you worked in your field. If you can’t see how `{n: 1.2}` and `{n:1.23}` in JSON have a one-byte difference while still giving essentially same data, you have been wasting your time.