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My guess is Google setup these APIs to help train their learning algorithms. Now that they are trained there's no reason to keep up the service anymore. Maybe the key is to stay away from APIs that do work and don't contribute to revenue?
My guess is Google setup these APIs to help train their learning algorithms. Now that they are trained there's no reason to keep up the service anymore. Maybe the key is to stay away from APIs that do work and don't contribute to revenue?
For e.g. the translate API, how could they train their algorithms? There is no feedback associated with it (that I know of).
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They did a little shy of ten years ago with VB6. People did indeed go batshit, but the government did not get involved.
Except that they provided a replacement and a migration path.
Web Services are different in that when they're no longer supported, you can't use them.
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>> Tweetdeck anyone? And Zynga (FB is its lifeblood) Exceptions are not the rule.
But huge, glaring exceptions can disprove a 'rule'. Risky? sure. Insane? These examples strongly indicate otherwise.
I probably agree with you though. Starting up is all about finding the right set of services to match the right set of needs...by any means possible.
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Upgrading to Python 3 is simply not an option for me at this time as I am depending on libraries that still require me to be using Python 2: Python 2->3 is an "all or nothing" endeavor due to the horrendously incompatible way they have handled this transition. I mean: the fact that five years /have/ passed and Python 3 is still a silly pipe dream for almost all users of Python should tell you something about how poor…
> the fact that five years /have/ passed and Python 3 is still a silly pipe dream for almost all users of Python should tell you something about how poorly this was done. So far, it has been just how it was meant to be. It was never the goal for Python 3 to be the default Python version by year 2011.
Question: Can anyone recommend another Translation API? The problem is that the translation work that Google does is the best out there that I've seen, and I'm not even sure if there's a decent alternative to be found.
Full disclosure: I currently work with the company detailed below (myGengo). Depending on your needs, you could consider human based translation, which is generally more accurate than machine-based translation. Over at myGengo ( http://mygengo.com/ ) we offer an API to help people get translations done by an actual translator, as opposed to a machine (think Mechanical Turk, but focused on translation). Feel free to c…
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They did a little shy of ten years ago with VB6. People did indeed go batshit, but the government did not get involved.
Except that they provided a replacement and a migration path.
It's really too bad. The Translate API was super, super fun to play with. I made myself a cute little interface to translate JavaScript or CSV arrays into multiple languages simultaneously. I envisioned being able to build fully self-translating web applications. And there's no other company providing this type of technology in this fashion. If there's any startup working in this area, here's your chance.
Agreed. This is a great opportunity for a startup to swoop in, clone the Google API so the only change necessary is authentication tokens and URI, and get everyone to switch to their (paid) platform.
In short, it takes considerable amount of resources to make it work on a Google translate level.