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The thing a stimulus writes a check for and reality has to cash.
means An answer or reaction given to something that has just happened or been said.
from From Latin respondere — re- ('back') plus spondere ('to pledge or promise') — literally 'to pledge back.' The same spondere root gives us 'spouse' and 'sponsor,' words also built on making a binding promise. So a response was originally a kind of vow returned: you pledged something, and the world pledged something back.
- legal root
- sponsors and spouses share the same promise-root word
- biology use
- neurons fire responses in milliseconds, not choices
- customer service
- average time is the metric, honesty rarely is
- HTTP status
- servers send 'responses' even when they fail you