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Re:Ask HN: What April fool made you laugh today? on Friday April 01, 2022 @12:37PM (#30880147)
Using Godel Theorem to show that GDPR is impossible to enforce. https://www.alias.dev/blog/our-brain-cannot-handle-gdpr-rule...

Help us solve API Terms of Service warning readability for developers

Do you remember Twitter breaking hundred of thousands of application because of abrupt API toS change? Facebook breaking APIs without notice? Google changing Google Maps API freemium pricing killing thousands of map integrations? Linkedin killing API access to startup competing with them? If developers had read carefully API Term of Service, they would have known the danger.Can I use this API...

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Ask HN: Help us solve API Terms of service warnings readability

Can we use this API safely in the long term is a difficult question to answer in the Digital world we live in. Most of the time, companies discover that their API access has been revoked when users complain their app does not work anymore.(Twitter story) Or sometime breaking change occurs without notice (remember Facebook APIs?). Sometimes it is the pricing options or other clauses that...

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Re:Marc Andreessen says Snowden is a traitor on Thursday June 05, 2014 @01:07PM (#7852886)
History is written by the victors. Traitors? heroes? It is just a point of view, depending on who win at then end. We now know on which side Marc Andressen is seated.
Re:Why Silicon Valley Can’t Find Europe on Saturday January 18, 2014 @07:00PM (#7082815)
Bcause also americain companies think UK is Europe and install HQ in UK instead of Western Europe which is the European main homogeneous market.
Re: on Wednesday January 01, 2014 @07:13PM (#6997440)
2014 will be the explosion of API conferences worldwide.
Re:Poll: OAuth 1.0a or OAuth 2.0 in a Docker container? on Saturday December 28, 2013 @02:33PM (#6976037)
Why not both? Big companies may prefer 1.0a for security and startups OAuth2.0 for flexibility about permissions and growth with easier integration by partners
Re:10,000+ Public APIs on Thursday December 12, 2013 @06:38PM (#6898059)
The war of API directories has just begun.