[bitroliest]

I had amazing "fun" with Amazon's marketplace API. Highlights include: - rejection without error messages - multiple hours before the successful call showed up as successful - broken XML schemas along with conflicting versioning and

My favorite: - error messages from the API asking me to call customer service to perform that action.

[winestock]

According to Eric S. Raymond's version of the Jargon File, people used to joke that MS-DOS system calls delivered "same-day service." Now that we're living in the future, that joke has become literally true.