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A Collection of Free Public APIs That Is Tested Daily
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#102"are" tested daily. Not to QC the link title, but ;)
I had exactly the same thought at first but then realised they're referring to the collection rather than the APIs. Therefore singular is correct.
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
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> User remarks about irony of free API list having no free API. > Gets a response dramatically moralising the comment. The humour of jaded online idealists knows no bounds
I misread completely and read "this site" as hn, which greatly confused me because: https://github.com/HackerNews/API
Then I realized I also didn't get the sarcasm.
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
Polling is a fool's errand, in my experience, since I'd guess a ton of the "how about now?" responses are "nope" IMHO sitemap.xml and/or ActivityPub are sleeper approaches to helping the sites with the adversarial relationship they have with scrapers. In my experience, there are two schools of thought: play the very expensive game of cat and mouse (expensive for BOTH sides) of trying to verify the human-ness of visit…
Maybe there is a language issue here. In Australia, a full on election is also called a poll. The government electoral commission does the polling, the voters do the voting. I think you getting confused with opinion polling.
Ah, that's quite possible - since it was a thread about APIs, I interpreted the question as "a way to programmatically await data arrival" - the verb "polling" in API context is repeatedly invoking a status endpoint to ask if new information is available either in absolute terms or in terms of since the last request
I stand by my rant :-D but obviously stand corrected on the question being asked
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
> having made the mistake of using a public API (that later went offline) for examples in a book of mine Literally a tale as old as time. The Old Testament references a command from God, that is not contained in the Old Testament itself.
Do you have an example for this? Just curious
Not sure which specific example they're referring to, but another example is that, according to tradition, the prophet Isaiah was martyred by placing him inside a hollow tree that was then sawn down. This appears to be referenced by the Apostle Paul in Hebrews 11:37 even though there is no description of Isaiah's death in the Old Testament:
"They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;"
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#107(This doesn't apply to every API in the list, but) having made the mistake of using a public API (that later went offline) for examples in a book of mine, never again. These days I keep an API deployed on a subdomain I control.
> having made the mistake of using a public API (that later went offline) for examples in a book of mine Literally a tale as old as time. The Old Testament references a command from God, that is not contained in the Old Testament itself.
Not literally a tale as old as time. Time existed for billions of years before humans.
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#108Not having a free public API for this site is a bit of a joke.
It would never load due to infinite recursion.