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by smadge 1917 days ago
The web has a standard for identifying resources, URIs. One nice thing about URIs is they can be URLs. A single integer id doesn't even identify a user since if I give you 3 you have no idea if it is users/3 or posts/3, or users/3 on Twitter or users/3 on Google, or the number of coffees I have drunk today.