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[–] umbraroze@kbin.social 174 points 1 year ago (3 children)

/serious Well, yes, most APIs are meant for system-to-system interaction, that's kind of a given. But since this particular API is clearly meant for human-to-system interaction, returning a human-readable response is adequate. Yes, a better design would probably allow the client to specify additional parameters about the desired response.

/back-to-jokes Yeah, well this kind of sums up most of my job applications. I send an application and the recruiting people are all like "OK".

[–] hstde@feddit.de 119 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At least you do get a response.

[–] anarchyrabbit@discuss.tchncs.de 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Lepsea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I send an application and the recruiting people are all like "OK".

I always have a suspicion that all of the HR department are Rammus.

[–] hansl@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Nah, clearly all HR are orcs. I once got a “zug zug” as an answer.

[–] hansl@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

/serious If you try with a non-human user agent I would expect it to return something machine readable.