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"Not really relevant to anything I said." By ignoring the fact that this was built for a practical purpose, and only mentioning ways that it could be abused im
by daleharvey 16y ago
"Not really relevant to anything I said."
By ignoring the fact that this was built for a practical purpose, and only mentioning ways that it could be abused implied that the author had bad intentions when writing it, I was clarifying that for everyone else, he should be thanked for ihackernews at the least.
I didnt say there was no downsides to people using it, but people can figure that out for themselves, there are also significant advantages over 1. not writing code yourself, and 2. caching and sharing the load from this domain, we already know that this site has stability issues and bots can quite easily affect the load, even if all people do with this api is create new ui's for hacker news then it would be worth it, I am pretty surprised that is the only useful thing you can see it being used for, there is obviously a lot of use cases.
- pvg 16y agoBy ignoring the fact that this was built for a practical purpose, and only mentioning ways that it could be abused implied that the author had bad intentions when writing it No it didn't imply anything of the sort. And whether something is built for a practical purpose or not is, in fact, not relevant to whether it's stupid or not. My point was that I think having this is a public web service is stupid and I explained why. The practical purposes you speak of could have been achieved just as easily by releasing the code so people interested in such functionality can use it as a library or host the service themselves.