mvindahl · HackerTrans

8 tahun yang laludiscuss

Absolutely agree. A PUT method carrying an open/closed flag would seem like a natural choice. Calling it any number of consecutive times with the same payload would be idempotent. There would probably be a GET method to go along with it. And of course, it would model the desired state, not the actual position of the garage door since garage doors don't instantaneously flip (would be cool though).

mvindahl

9 tahun yang laludiscuss

My wife works as a teacher, 30 hours a week. It's not lavishly paid, and taxes are kind of heavy here (.dk). If she were to become a housewife, we'd be able to cut down to one car and we could even pull our youngest son out of kindergarten. All in all, it would be a very modest strain upon our economy.

So why not just do it, at least for a period of time? Partly because having a job can give a sense of purpose, partly to not lose her options for later, but most importantly because staying at home all day with nothing but kids to talk to is kind of hard on your psyche. After all, almost everyone else is at work.

Contrast that with her grandmother who was a housewife in the 1950s. According to her, there was plenty of manual work involved, and it could be stressful in its own ways. On the upside, the neighborhood was full of housewives. They would drop in for coffee, they'd look after each other's toddlers when necessary, and when the older kids came home from school they would pretty much roam freely with the other neighborhood kids. For better or worse, this kind of "infrastructure" is missing today.

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