On 29 May 2009, at 11:21, Ben Evans wrote:
I've heard the standard management argument that "it'll take longer
to fix it upstream and cost more than working around it, and anyay
the broken data source will be going away real soon now..." more
times than I care to think about.
Not only has it never been correct, it has never been within 1 order
of magnitude of being correct.
Oh - welcome to my (soon to be changing) world.
Certain very purple newsfeed parsing systems have to cope with masses
of special cases for 'this feed lies about its encoding'...
In some cases, the feed maintenance folks even do it the way we tell
'em to.
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