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Aren’t we all just offset normies?

Someone is out there building and maintaining the APIs


One hopes. If they decide to stop providing/maintaining the API, you're out of luck.

Just using APIs also misses out on the learning, community, and collaboration of open source software.


Agree with the premise, and it can be more effective to choose a different medium for your follow-up communication. Someone not responding to email? Try sending an IM or giving them a phone call.


To be clear, I don’t mean when you’re cold-emailing someone for an intro or a favor you don’t need. I mean when you have a dependency at work and can’t move forward without information from someone else.


If I were the manager, I’d respond to this by wishing the person luck and asking when their last day will be.


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