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Reminds me of an online ordering app at my university - when the API went down one day the app started reporting to everyone that the wait time for their food w
by tornato7 4y ago
Reminds me of an online ordering app at my university - when the API went down one day the app started reporting to everyone that the wait time for their food was “503 minutes”
- throwaway894345 4y agoThat's just awful programming, and the parent's suggestion wouldn't have addressed that. It would have instead resulted in "1000 minutes" or whatever their status code was.
- reaperducer 4y agoThat's just awful programming, and the parent's suggestion wouldn't have addressed that. It would have if the API used the HTTP status number to indicate the number of minutes. I've seen crazier things in web APIs.