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Re:ADP Begins to Roll Out a Zenefits Competitor by eropple on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @03:09PM (#9694572)
> The existence of a public interface usable by humans (a web app) does not in any way imply the existence of a machine-usable protocol for accessing that same functionality.

Is that non-implication better for consumers? For people?

If not, why should it exist?

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Re:ADP Begins to Roll Out a Zenefits Competitor by _lce0 on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @04:09PM (#9694943)
Isn't that all the way around?

Machine-usable protocols is what make possible to humans use public interfaces (web apps)

When was the last time that you injected electricity to a cable to send a HTTP request?

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Re:ADP Begins to Roll Out a Zenefits Competitor by hamburglar on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @05:46PM (#9695728)
> Is that non-implication better for consumers? For people?

How is that relevant? Putting up a web site does not obligate you to then do more just because it would be even better.

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