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Surprised to see no one has mentioned 3rd party APIs yet. Especially half-baked, poorly documented SAAS APis where you're left wondering whether is was designed
by harryf 7y ago
Surprised to see no one has mentioned 3rd party APIs yet. Especially half-baked, poorly documented SAAS APis where you're left wondering whether is was designed by malice - to protect some vague business interest - or simply by incompetence / lack of care / lack of time.
I've found the best mental defence in such situations is to assume the worst from the outset, by expecting to have to burn untold hours figuring out how this black box _really_ works and then be pleasantly surprised some parts actually work OK. Better that than assuming "this can't be that that hard" and ending up frustrated.
- nshm 7y agoExactly, also a frequent API changes for no reason. Tensorflow is a good example of this. Looks like every month they schedule a meeting on what they gonna break next. They seem to enjoy thousands of github issues about cryptic messages on renamed nodes in the neural network models.
- gauku 7y agoStruggling through their newly released tensorflow-graphics library right now. They wrote it, published some simple, single google-colab tutorials and left it at that. No documentation anywhere else