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Re:Surveying 1000 APIs - Think APIs are for Tech Startups On... by terpin on Thursday June 07, 2012 @01:01PM (#4080050)
1000APIs is a small sample size.
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Re:Surveying 1000 APIs - Think APIs are for Tech Startups On... by njyx on Thursday June 07, 2012 @01:10PM (#4080105)
Yes, agreed - but the total number of APIs listed is a little over 6000, so it's a reasonable sample to some extent. There are a lot more APIs out there which aren't public / listed - so it's hard to account for those.
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Re:Surveying 1000 APIs - Think APIs are for Tech Startups On... by dllthomas on Thursday June 07, 2012 @02:04PM (#4080420)
That depends on the signal-to-noise ratio you're expecting.
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