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by doctor_eval 1509 days ago
Yeah, 100%. I've had a tier-one telco complain to me - very seriously - that my API was too complex because I wanted them to include a user-generated UUID in an API call, so we could ensure we only processed it once. It was very frustrating to be told that we're making things too complex when the whole point was to make it more reliable. A lot of people - including telco software engineers, it turns out - just treat computers as magical.