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If you are a self-respecting programmer, you should ask yourself if someone has done a better job writing the same tool than you intend to do.
by fabulist 11y ago
If you are a self-respecting programmer, you should ask yourself if someone has done a better job writing the same tool than you intend to do.
- guelo 11y agoYou have been handed down free libraries for RSS and Facebook containing thousands of lines of high quality code. If you can't put the few lines of glue code together and are willing to sacrifice your privacy and random legal restrictions to yet another service just for this little convenience, then... well if you don't respect yourself I'm not going to respect you either.
- fabulist 11y agoYou are using very strong words to describe a very weak signal, and it comes out sounding like noise. Self-respecting programmers make lots of good and bad decisions, and trying to exclude someone from that category because they went down a particular path is divisive and unproductive. If you had said, "I don't see why one would opt to use a service rather than write a script for this very simple task," you might've gotten an interesting answer pointing out something you missed. No self respecting programmer would throw away the chance to learn a valuable lesson to grandstand. (Edit: Though I've totally made that mistake before.)
- toyg 11y agoYou write your little glue code, then you spin up a server to run it periodically (which costs money), then you're forever on the hook for patching, restarting, adding features, dealing with api changes, etc etc etc... As opposed to "set up, forget about it, have a beer".