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I have no idea where you take this opinion from or if you can back it up. From my anecdotal evidence exactly the opposite is true: kids from families who do realize there is such a thing as mental health and who care deeply about their kids - those get diagnosed. Kids from other families just get mostly slapped around and screamed at to get their shit together.
Sure, if you take 300M market like US and pool all the best talent to west-coast, there is a lot of engineers. But the market is saturated, and it's nigh-impossible to hire a team of the magnitude you can get in Eastern Europe. Canada? Oh please...
The european market is significantly bigger than US one (380m people) but manages to have much better labeling standards.
That passion was connecting developers - API builders & users. Documentation is just a part of this (interaction, collaboration, prototyping, and testing being others), which is why it’s a bit harder to be completely free-form. That said, we're aware that there's a lot room for improvement and we're working very hard to make Apiary better. Your feedback is really appreciated, I'd like to know more. @dmak, @special and @sidi would love if you could contact to me directly at jakub@apiary.io. Thanks for speaking out and pushing us to improve.
Apart, obviously, in language of choice.
So yeah, it was a lame time to schedule maintenance.
For businesses, "there's an API for that".
And yeah, if it gets really bad, violent protest is just a more extreme continuation of unions.
Case in point: some of the most egregious privacy violations were done by GCHQ as opposed to NSA, who contracted out the sensitive spying to UK because of lax legal regulations. But can you see any electoral upheaval in UK that would even hold a candle to things happening in US? No MPs protesting, no public protesting - nothing.
Even my UK friends in IT industry, spending all of their time online - are shrugging shoulders saying "but spies spy, that's what they do, what's the big deal". I feel that Kirsty is just reflecting that cultural background.
REST needs to mature and get tooling. But we need to avoid the WSDL complexity.
I'm happy that Mulesoft are getting on the "better, human readable API DSL" bandwagon. It's very important.
At Apiary we found that embedding one format (Markdown, for human-readable documentation) into another format (YAML, for structured parseable data) is hard for the consumer, tough for the text editors/IDEs/syntax highlighters and ultimately useless. That's why apiblueprint.org is PURE markdown, that displays well on GitHub, has great syntax-highlighting support in your editor - and is just as parseable (since we ship an MIT-licensed parser with it).
I wish we could've united on a single format, but I guess the stronger will win and a little competition is always good for the end-users.
http://blogs.forbes.com/alexknapp/2011/05/25/d-wave-sells-qu...
Perhaps coincidence. Still, interesting.