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Elyz
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At work today I met an api that redefines http status codes to mean something else. Naturally this makes integrating between systems a whole thing when system a keeps spitting out 207 and system b will not accept anything other than 200. Thanks for nothing. WHY WOULD ANYONE EVER WANT TO DO THAT THO? there's just no good reason to.

Anyway hens how r yous?, hope you're all doing well and that your coffee is as strong and black as the void <3

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  • 3
    Reminds me the time we had to migrate a system from some old crusty tech that had a reeeal weird way to represent time and date. Turns out they worked that into the code and if you plugged a normal format time and date everything broke down in unsuspected places.
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    @bytewind why are people like this? 😒 I'm not mad, just disappointed, tired and ready for retirement.
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    @Elyz because we're not robots and just like we have different speech patterns we have different coding patterns. Imagine you were a wizard and your words changed the world. Programmers are just like that: when you look at code you are decoding a spell and inevitably just like natural language, code offers many paths to the same conclusion.
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    @dontknowshit wasn't actually asking just venting lmao 🙃
  • 0
    @Elyz lol it's devrant after all.. Misread your tone 😵
  • 2
    God that's insane! ... now I want to invent a bunch of new status codes!
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