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Re:Patio11's Law: The software economy is bigger than you think by vorpalhex on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @11:43PM (#23163258)
Bulk downloading and resizing photos in weird spreadsheets.

Managing attributes and taxonomies for ecommerce.

Capitalizable hour analysis for software projects.

That's just stuff from the last few weeks. None of these are hard to automate but the workflow integration is the tricky bit.

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Re:Patio11's Law: The software economy is bigger than you think by jamestimmins on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @02:13PM (#23169867)
Do you know why they don't just use an existing API that does image resizing automatically? Presume it's the integration challenge, but I'm curious if you know /why/.

Also, what does "Capitalize hour analysis" mean?

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Re:Patio11's Law: The software economy is bigger than you think by Gollapalli on Thursday May 14, 2020 @03:44PM (#23184398)
I doubt they know such an API even exists (or what an API is!). Most companies aren't run by hackers, assuming there's an API that does the thing they want to do isn't the natural response.
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