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by KomoD 1118 days ago
Last I checked unlimited is more than millions
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junon 1118 days ago
This mindset is why we need "do not use while sleeping" warning labels on toasters and hair dryers.
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nitrammm 1118 days ago
This would be very valid comment if toasters had manuals telling that they are perfectly safe to use while sleeping.

If you lie in your marketing material then you may put yourself in a mess. Big surprise.

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KomoD 1118 days ago
No, advertising unlimited and then complaining when someone truly does use unlimited is not a problem with my mindset, it's a problem with the person who runs the service, if you don't want people to truly use unlimited, don't advertise unlimited.
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wiseowise 1118 days ago
Sure, you specifically can use it million times, or even more (given your span of life).

If your audience is millions of users it’s millions * millions, not cool.

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nitrammm 1118 days ago
So if someone doesn't undeestand this assumption, then they are an asshole?

That's pretty crazy viewpoint.

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wiseowise 1117 days ago
> So if someone doesn't undeestand this assumption, then they are an asshole?

Yes.

> That's pretty crazy viewpoint.

Companies that make millions of devices while abusing free APIs without giving anything back are assholes. Hmm, let me think?

No, it’s not.

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nitrammm 1117 days ago
You must be living in a bubble if you think that's how companies operate.

Saying that someone is an asshole for using an API in a way which clearly should be possible according to the documentation is a very clear sign of that person being a junior developer who don't have actual real world experience of anything except toy projects. Any developer with some years of experience would understand that this would happen and he should not be surprised over it.

It's very possible that no one involved in this is even aware of this issue, so automatically calling them assholes is somewhat incompetent at best.

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KomoD 1117 days ago
> Companies that make millions of devices while abusing free APIs without giving anything back are assholes.

If a service is free & "unlimited" and they start using it, and you get mad, then that is not their fault, it's yours.

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